Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls (Buckeyes). So Melt In Your Mouth! by Rockin Robin

Peanut butter balls are so delicious and easy to make.


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This recipe is Gluten Free. These are a tradition at my house. I make them every Christmas and sometimes Thanksgiving and New Years. Valentines Day is a good time to make them too.

I love this recipe plain and simple. I think it's even better than Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Who doesn't love chocolate and peanut butter?

Well I do know one person. Anyway, they are addicting no doubt about that. Did I mention they go by other names? Buckeye balls. Who'd a thought.

The difference between a buckeye ball and a peanut butter ball is how it's dipped in chocolate. The peanut butter ball is fully covered in delicious chocolate and the buckeye is only covered about 3/4 of the ball. The top quarter of the ball is left uncovered so you can see the peanut butter.

I think I like it fully covered because I love chocolate. You can cover as much or as little as you want. They're your peanut butter buckeyes.

On to the recipe. I'm going to show you what ingredients to use, how to mix the peanut butter mixture, and then how to melt and dip the balls into chocolate.


You can use milk chocolate or semi sweet chocolate chips. I'm a milk chocolate fan. You can use pretty much any brand you like. Nestle works well. So does Ghirardelli. My favorite is Guittard.

When dipping the balls you can use a number of different techniques. For example you can use spoons to coat the balls or a couple of forks. I like using two toothpicks. Don't forget to lick your fingers. They will get chocolate on them. That's one of the perks of dipping.

If you really want to get fancy ( I didn't show this in the video) you can dip your balls in the chocolate and then set on wax or parchment paper and then go back later and drizzle more chocolate on top.

Here is how you would do it: Take a small ziplock bag and pour some of the chocolate into the bag and zip it shut. Snip off a small corner of the bag and squeeze some vertical lines over the peanut butter ball. People will think you are a professional candy maker they look so good!

Here is the recipe. These baby's will make about 6 to 7 dozen balls depending on how big you make them. They are a nice alternative when you get tired of cookies. If that's possible!

1 cups peanut butter, Skippy or equivalent, not natural peanut butter (it gets runny)
3 and 1/2 cups to 3 and 3/4 cups of powdered sugar
cup butter. softened
1 tsp. vanilla
12 oz. bag of milk chocolate chips, Guittard is my favorite for its flavor
2 Tbs. shortening

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Rockin Robin
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