Melt in your mouth creamy peanut butter dipped in chocolate and chilled. What can be better than that?!! If you’re a fan of peanut butter cups, just wait until you try this recipe for Homemade Buckeyes!
❤️ Why you’ll love this recipe
Because they are creamy, dreamy, chocolatey and delicious! Tastes fancy but these little treats only take minutes to make!
📖 Recipe Backstory
Hey my friends, welcome back to another edition of our Freaky Friday recipe exchange!
This is my favorite event of the year. You remember this, right? We are assigned a blog and pic a recipe to share, all while keeping it a big secret!
This time I was assigned Take Two Tapas! Jennifer’s blog is filled with easy delicious bites and finger food. It’s truly THE PLACE to go for the perfect bite! Which is why it was so hard to pick a favorite!
There’s an amazing recipe for Toffee Truffles, that literally has me drooling! And the Christmas Rum Balls are so pretty and festive! Another recipe I had my eye on were these super cute Pretzel Sticks. Jennifer had them doll’d up for Halloween, but I thought wouldn’t they be fun for Christmas!
But I scoured four grocery stores for pretzels and didn’t find any… apparently the pandemic put a run on pretzels? 🤦♀️ Which worked out just fine because you are going to love the recipe I picked, Homemade Buckeyes!!!
Now make sure you click over and check out the original recipe because it contains bourbon and toasted pecans. YUM!!!
🛒 Ingredients
- Chocolate wafers or chocolate chips – I used semi sweet because that what we had on hand. Dark chocolate would also be yummy!
- Creamy peanut butter – though you can use chunky, the creamy makes the homemade buckeyes literally melt in your mouth!
⏲️ Instructions
- Cream together the butter, peanut butter, salt and vanilla.
- Add the powdered sugar in batches.
- Cream everything together until it’s smooth.
- Scoop the batter into balls.
- Refrigerate.
- Next melt the chocolate chips mixed with coconut oil in the microwave stirring, every 30 seconds until smooth.
- Insert toothpick, dip each ball in chocolate.
- Allow excess chocolate to drizzle off.
- Refrigerate the homemade buckeyes so the chocolate can harden. Serve and enjoy!
🙋🏼♀️ Recipe FAQ’s
As long as you use shelf stable nut butter, once the chocolate has hardened, they don’t have to be refrigerated. Personally I prefer them chilled, but room temperature works too!
I prefer salted, creamy peanut butter. If all you have is chunky, you can still make this, they just won’t be as silky smooth.
No, they aren’t named after the football team, but actually named after a nut normally found in Ohio and the surrounding states.
✔️ Tips
- Coconut oil helps thin the chocolate so it’s easier to melt and dip the buckeyes. If you don’t have coconut oil, you can substitute canola oil or corn oil.
- Be sure and scrape down the sides of the bowl when you’re mixing the ingredients to ensure everything is evenly incorporated.
🥣 Variations
The homemade buckeye recipe below is a classic combination, but you can easily mix this up and instead of coating with melted chocolate, use;
- chopped nuts
- candy sprinkles
- powdered sugar
- cocoa powder
- cane sugar
Any of these would be beautiful and delicious!
🍽️ Storage
Refrigerated these will last up to a month! (Well… not in my house 😋, but you get the picture!) Frozen up to three months – enjoy!
😋 Related Recipes
And because this is a cookie exchange, you need more cookie recipes for your cookie platter, right! Check out all of these amazing recipe and treats!
I hope you really enjoyed this recipe and please don’t forget to swing by Jennifer’s Blog over at Take Two Tapas, for more sweet treats and delicious bites!
When you make this please be sure to tag me on Instagram @bowl_me_over or #bowlmeover – I’d love to see your photos!
If you love this recipe please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating!
🍳 Recipe
Homemade Buckeyes
Equipment
- Ice Cream Scoop
Ingredients
- ¾ cups creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- FOR THE CHOCOLATE COATING
- 2 cups dark chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
Instructions
- Mix together the butter, peanut butter, salt and vanilla until smooth and creamy.
- Add the powdered sugar in a couple batches.
- Cream everything together until it's smooth.
- Scoop the batter into balls and onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Refrigerate for 10 minutes, roll into smooth balls. Pop into the freezer for 20 minutes or refrigerate overnight.
- FOR THE CHOCOLATE COATING
- Add the coconut oil to the chocolate chips. Melt in the microwave at 30 second intervals, stopping to stir every 30 seconds. Continue until the chocolate is completely smooth.
- Insert toothpick into each ball and then dip it in the chocolate coating.
- Allow excess chocolate to drizzle off and place it on a parchment lined platter.
- Refrigerate the homemade buckeyes so chocolate can harden. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- chopped nuts
- candy sprinkles
- powdered sugar
- cocoa powder
- cane sugar
Nicole J
These are SO CUTE and I haven’t made them in so long! Sounds like it is time to remedy that!
Bowl Me Over
Most definitely Nicole, enjoy!
Amy Nash
I’ve been meaning to make these for so long! I’m glad you shared this recipe because they are so easy and SOOOOO tasty!
Erin
Buckeyes are my FAVORITE, but I’ve always let other people make ’em. Until now.
Yum! Seriously! I’ve eyeballed this recipe of Jennifer’s for a long while now and am going to make it this season, so thank you!
JENNIFER STEWART
I am so glad you chose this recipe! This is definitely one of my family’s favorites, especially Brooks and Connor because they love all things PB and chocolate. And even though we love bourbon in ours, it is really easy to use vanilla if people aren’t fans of that. or the kids are eating them LOL. Happy holidays to you guys!
Kathleen Pope
Jennifer is the best, especially at bite sized treats! Buckeyes remind me of my Grandma, we used to make them together, thanks for a sweet memory, I really need to make these soon!
Debi
These are always a yummy treat, I mean, how can you go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate!
Julie Menghini
I’m loving this recipe. We’ve always made peanut butter balls but these buckeyes show off that yummy filling! I’m changing my ways.
Angela
Its so crazy, I’ve never had a buckeye! We are big peanut butter fans here so these definitely won’t last! I cant wait to make them.
Sheila @ Life, Love, and Good Food
Buckeyes are my absolute favorite Christmas candy/cookie! Yours look like perfection!
Bowl Me Over
Thanks Sheila, enjoy! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Mary Jones
This is my “kids” favorite Christmas cookie. I’ve been making these for over 30 years!! These are absolutely the yummiest and so easy to make.
Bowl Me Over
Yay! I’m so glad to hear it’s a favorite! Happy Holidays Mary!!!
Michaela Kenkel
This is one of Jennifer’s recipes I have ALWAYS wanted to make! They look amazing – and I bet there was no need to worry about how long they would last in the fridge! 😉 Perfect for a holiday cookie exchange!
Bowl Me Over
They are amazing and a MUST try! What a treat and I’m so excited to share this recipe with my readers. Thanks Michaela!
Heather
Would you believe that I have never made buckeyes? I am actually not sure I have ever even had them which is stupid because I LOVE chocolate and peanut better. Jennifer’s website is LOADED with good things – can’t wait to try these!
Bowl Me Over
Oh my goodness, then you definitely need to get this a try Heather – this recipe is amazing! Thanks for stopping by!