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Thank you!! Great recipe.
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OMG, I haven’t seen these in years… but I’m going to make these this weekend. Thanks, ATK! ❤
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)
I don't care that they look like the heads of uncircumcised penises!
Keto version for dietetics and people not eating them high carbs, sugars, or those terrible Deadly Hydrogenated oils in the peanut butter.
A favorite!!
My West Virginia mother in law used to make these and they were amazing. She oddly used paraffin wax in hers. 🤔
It takes just a second to smooth over those little holes you've made in the peanut butter with a finger (some water may help). Looks unfinished with these piercings you've left!
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love me some buckeyes
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?
Love 💗
Just the way Mom used to make them 50 years ago….
Yeah, me and my family are from Michigan. We dip them totally to cover them so they DON'T look like buckeyes for that reason. And we call them Goofballs.
But don't use natural????
Wolverine Peanut Butter Candies are much better.
Guess I am out of luck not having a stand mixer and all.
Snappy candy AND a snappy-quick video recipe… thanks!
I made this recipe for a friend of mine from Ohio. He said they were the best buckeyes he's ever had (and I'm Canadian 😆)!
I once made a two pound buckeye for a Cleveland Browns talegate , is there a version that I can use powdered Splenda and sugar free chocolate instead I'm diabetic.
Wow, that was easy. I'm going to give it a try. 👍 PS, her smile is adorable.
Watching a grossly obese person make chocolate and peanut butter candies, I don't think so. Gross.
Look hideous but taste like heaven.
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
This sounds wonderful. I would add 1 t.vanilla.
We add crushed Rice Krispies in my family's version.
These are very much like the peanut butter bon-bons my grandmother made, but her recipe includes Rice Krispies, which give a nice bit of texture. They disappear fast whenever I make them!
Interesting.
I prefer natural peanut butter with just enough confectioners sugar to make it workable to roll, then roll and chill until very solid. This allows you to make it dairy free if needed.
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.
Those look tasty. I noticed that the branding on the mixer was covered.
Is there such a thing as a dessert that doesn't contribute to making us all diabetics?
Is there any way you can use natural peanut butter if you adjust the recipe? Just want to see if there’s a way to use something other than Jif or Skip
'Don't use the natural kind'? Is there artificial peanut butter?
Sooo addictive. And that is precisely why I never make them.
This lady is on point!
O-H !
Hi ATK
Salutations from California
My favorite version adds graham cracker crumbs to the peanut butter mixture for some added crunch. They're a standard on our Christmas cookie plate.
As an Ohioan, finally we get some more representation
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!!)
Is there a good recipe for making these in bar style? (For example, In a 9x 13 pan and cut into small squares).
Awesome. My daughters would love to make these.
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Can you use maple syrup instead of confectioners sugar?