Buckeyes!!! YUMMY!!
CANDY BUCKEYES
1 stick butter
1 box powdered sugar
1 1/2 c. peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 pkg. (12 oz.) chocolate chips
1/2 stick paraffin
Mix butter, sugar, peanut butter and vanilla. Form into small balls. Cool.
Melt chocolate and paraffin in top of double boiler. Stick a toothpick in the candy ball and dip into the chocolate mixture, leaving part of the top uncovered. It will resemble a buckeye. They can be frozen.
* Buckeyes are nut that grows in trees in or around the ohio reigon*
*tips to make this recipe with your children*
Little children (ages 6-10) can roll the peanut butter mixture into balls.
Older children can mix the peanut butter mixture or help you dip the balls into the melted chocolate.
*My mom taught me and my siblings how to make buckeyes starting when I was about 5 or 6. I do it now with my 5 year old. *
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