Peanut Butter Buckeyes

This is the best peanut butter buckeyes recipe you’ll ever make!

As you know I’m a fan of easy recipes, and this peanut butter and chocolate dessert are no different.

Because we love amazing flavors, we make these easy peanut butter buckeyes a little different than most.

We have a secret ingredient for our peanut butter buckeyes that make them THE BEST!

Sure, you’ve seen buckeye recipes around the web, but which one is the best buckeye recipe?

They all seem to be the same, and use the same ingredients. And they are alright, but we’re not settling for just alright.

What Are Peanut Butter Buckeyes?

Peanut butter buckeyes are a simple dessert that is made using peanut butter and chocolate as the main ingredients.

You can use your favorite peanut butter and your favorite chocolate.

But, the ingredients we add to these buckeyes are what makes them OH-SO-GOOD!

Taste Of Home Buckeye Recipe

Regardless of where you search on the web, you’ll find nearly identical buckeye recipes.

The taste of home buckeyes is no different. They’re the same as the food network recipe and the same as all recipes recipe.

However, they’re not the same as my buckeye recipe! 

With just one ingredient swap, we take the original recipe from good to fabulous!

Skippy Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls

So what kind of peanut butter should you use for this recipe? We’ve tried a few different brands, including Jif.

The results are in. Although Jif was a great choice for buckeyes, we found the Skippy creamy peanut butter was the best choice.

After much testing, we feel the flavor of Skippy worked best in conjunction with the sugars and other ingredients in the recipe.

Peanut Butter Buckeyes Recipe

To make buckeyes, you’ll first make a thick sugary peanut butter mixture.

Then, this mixture will be rolled into balls. Once the balls are created, they will be refrigerated to firm up.

After firming up the balls, they will be dipped in melted chocolate, leaving just the ‘buckeye’ uncoated.

They’re real easy to make. See the entire recipe below!

Buckeye Peanut Butter Balls Recipe

See the full recipe below for buckeye peanut butter balls. Here we’ll talk about the ingredients and why we use them.

Equipment

• Baking sheet
• Electric mixer
• Bowl

Ingredients

• Sifted confectioners’ sugar. You can use a sifter or you can whisk with a fork as you’re pouring the sugar from the measuring cup into the bowl. You just want to make sure it’s smooth with no lumps.
• Creamy peanut butter. As I said before, we found the Skippy Creamy works best.
• Salted butter. Yes, nearly all of the other recipes you find online will call for unsalted, but they just don’t like bringing out the flavor of the chocolate and peanut butter, I guess… 
• Pure vanilla extract. You can use imitation, but it’s not as good.
• Table salt. Kosher if you wish, but we use regular table salt. It helps enhance the flavors of the chocolate and peanut butter.

Peanut Butter Buckeye Secret Ingredient

Here’s that secret ingredient for our peanut butter buckeye I told you about. This is the major swap we made that takes these to the next level.

Milk Chocolate Chips!

Every single recipe will call for semi-sweet – but who the heck wants to eat semi-sweet chocolate in the raw state?

I’m pretty sure Snickers, M&M’s, and all the other candy bar makers are not wrong. We eat milk chocolate, not semi-sweet baking chocolate!

If you want to make the best peanut butter buckeye recipe, you’ll use milk chocolate chips!

The final ingredient you’ll need is vegetable shortening. This is important to make the chocolate thin enough so it doesn’t glob onto your peanut butter. Rather, it will create a nice smooth coating.

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