How to Make Buckeye Peanut Butter Candies

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  4. 1 C creamy peanut butter (not natural peanut butter)
    1 stick (8 T) unsalted butter, cut into 1 T sized pieces, softened until maleable but still cold
    ¼ t table salt
    2 ½ C (285 g) confectioners' sugar
    12 ounces (340 g) bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine, divided (roughly ⅚ to melt and ⅙ for seed tempering)

  12. This is posted too late in the season, you need to post this in advance of the college playoffs (go Buckeyes). And there's an idea for a series, any other teams have traditional snacks or food?

  25. I'd like to learn how you temper your chocolate by just adding some chocolate to the melted chocolate. Just that tempers the chocolate so it's shiny? I make my own candy because I'm pre-diabetic so I use Lokanto monk fruit powdered sweetener. Also I use crunchy natural peanut butter stirred up so I don't have to add the butter. I also add the monk fruit sweetener to my chocolate I use baker's chocolate. But I've never been able to eat temper chocolate before it was too complicated this sounds so much easier if I understood you correctly. It would be great if that is how you temper chocolate if you could make a short video on it. Thanks

  31. I grew up in Ohio and our high school sports teams were named the Buckeyes. Needless to say, everybody made these candies.

    One thing we did a little differently was to dip each peanut butter ball with the toothpick at an angle so it was almost parallel with the surface of the chocolate when. The spot where the toothpick entered the ball would be covered with chocolate. Then when you put the dipped buckeye on the plate you could pull the toothpick out with a quick twist. (It took a little practice.) That way the hole where the toothpick was in the ball is hidden under the chocolate.

  42. Lol…for a while now I've enjoyed the occasional nighttime snack where I whomp a big spoonful of creamy PB into a bowl then sprinkle in some Splenda and, if there's some softened butter sitting on the counter, a little of that, and then mix well and eat with a spoon. I'm sure if any of my family members saw me do this they'd say "that's disgusting!"…but now I can just say "hey, this is called 'buckeye candy'!" (And, since I don't add salt or dip in chocolate, I can even say it's a "low-sodium, low-fat" version!!)

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