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Sunday, April 05, 2009

peanut butter buckeyes.

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as tasty as these are, i don't like making them because they're a pain. but dennis the menace loves them & it's his birthday this week, so i'm off to vegas with a tin full of peanut butter buckeyes.

there's a little something extra in the tin this year: a copy of the recipe.

that way way he can make them whenever he wants. i'm confident he can make these buckeyes. yes i am. no problem.

Notes

1) I use this recipe from epicurious.com & i halve it so there's less of them to deal with. half the recipe makes 42 buckeyes. 42 is enough.

2) i almost always throw in more cornflakes & peanut butter. maybe 1/2 C cornflakes & 1/4 C peanut butter. my reasoning for this is that it looks like it needs more cornflakes. & then it needs more peanut butter.

2) the peanut butter mixture is dry & crumbly & will not form into a ball without some elbow grease.

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3) the recipe calls for an amount of dipping chocolate that only works in the perfect world where you've achieved exactly the right temperatures for both melted chocolate & chilled buckeyes, so that when you get to dipping the chocolate runs off the buckeye in a glistening sheet that coats perfectly & there is no waste.

otherwise, add a few more ounces of chocolate. i use valrhona 70%.

4) Edit. See remarks by Anonymous in the comments section. Dipping with a fork gives the candy the distinctive buckeye nut marking. Image source: wiki.



i've never tried dipping them with a fork because i have a loop


i recommend getting one, because it makes the dipping process a lot easier. i think you can get the plastic ones at a craft store for a few dollars.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That loop is cool, but buckeyes are meant to be dipped with forks so you have a little bit of brown on top. When the actual buckeye nut falls of the tree, the part where it was connected is peanut-butter brown, and the outside is chocolate brown. Dipping with a fork or toothpick and pressing over the holes creates the illusion of a buckeye! We usually call anything covered on top a buckeye ball.

9010 said...

Many thanks for the heads up, Anon!

Anonymous said...

I couldn't figure out how to comment on your "attack of the carnivorous whoopie pies" post, but I wanted to say that it was absolutely perfect! I won't leave my name (so that no one can take out a contract on my life), but if I see one more blog with a whoopie pie recipe, I might toss my cookies.

9010 said...

To: Anon #2 re whoopie pies - good to know it's not just me. ;-)