Buckeyes

One of my favorite flavor combinations in the whole world is peanut butter and chocolate. Reese's Peanut Butter cups are my favorite candy, and these buckeyes are just homemade peanut butter balls. Yum!

What You'll Need...

1 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter (Or other nut butter, or Sunbutter)
1/4 Cup Butter (Softened)
1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
1 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 1/2 Cups + 2 Tablespoons Powdered Sugar
8oz Chocolate Chips or Melting Chocolate

In a mixing bowl combine the butter and peanut butter. You can use a hand or stand mixer, but I prefer to mix them by hand.

Add the sugars and vanilla to the peanut butter mixture and mix until combined. This is where doing it by hand makes the most sense for me. You will need to use your hands to make the mixture come completely together.

Once the peanut butter mixture is completely combined form them into balls and place them on a tray. I like to make mine using about 1/2 Tablespoon of peanut butter mixture at a time. The last time I made these (last weekend) I weighed each one using my kitchen scale. 9g per ball was the perfect amount.

Once you have all of the balls formed place the tray in the freezer for at least 15 minutes. Before removing them from the freezer melt the chocolate in the microwave in a deep, skinny microwave safe bowl or mug.

Remove the peanut butter balls from the freezer and using a toothpick dip them in the chocolate so that they are 3/4 of the way covered.

Be careful, the peanut butter will start to soften, so you will need to refreeze the entire batch at times. I find that I can get 10-15 balls dipped before I need to refreeze.

Once they are all dipped all to set and then serve! Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.