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It wasn’t until I met Josh that I had even heard of Buckeyes. I think the idea that us people on the coasts have never heard of these is true! Now that we are in Michigan I hear a lot about Buckeyes – not always in good ways, although I do like the
MSU Dairy Store’s Buckeye Blitz ice cream – that is good! Now that I have my own ice cream maker I might need to try my hand at that one. Anyway, Since part of Josh’s family is from Ohio and some still live in the Ohio/Pennsylvania area these little tasty treats get made pretty regularly around the holidays. So, when we asked Josh’s grandmother to gather up some recipes and make us a family cookbook when we got married one of the recipes was his Aunt Amy’s Buckeye recipe – man, oh man – those Buckeyes are SO GOOD! The recipe makes a ton of them – 200 (or 100 in my case because I make them huge). So, when I saw that the
CLUB: Baked second Nov pic hosted by none other than Karen the organizer of Club Baked (Check out her post on
Karen’s Cookies, Cakes, and More) was Buckeyes, I was both intrigued and worried – I mean, I love the other recipe. I was worried I wouldn’t like this one as much. I must say though, now that I have made both that they are both good, definitely different, but both of them are good. Aunt Amy’s are sweeter than the Baked ones, which I guess makes sense since this was supposed to be a less sweet version that the ones his mom made. Anyway, even though I am in the furies of dissertation writing (I am sending it out to my committee this week!) I had to take the time to post about these. I actually made them a few weeks ago. I decided to freeze them and I am going to bring them to my parents for Thanksgiving.
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Okay, so here’s one big difference right here. In this recipe there are graham crackers… definitely makes the texture a little different than the other recipe. Also, there is cream cheese in these ones. Amy’s just have the peanut butter, margarine and sugar, and of course the chocolate.
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Yummy! Look at that. Oh yeah, I did end up getting a new Kitchen Aid mixer. So, now I have two. I couldn’t resist the price on this back in October at Sam’s Club and I love the red!
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Here they are ready to go. I used a little ice cream scoop to get them to be pretty uniform in size. I still had to roll each one of them after they were all scooped. These were not that easy for me to dip. I used a few different skewers and the peanut butter ball kept sliding off and right into the chocolate. :-( This did not make Lorraine a happy camper! I have this same problem when trying to make cake pops! I am not sure what my problem is! Eventually, I was able to get most of them dipped into the chocolate. Josh and I had a few and then plopped the rest in the freezer.
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Okay, now that my mouth is watering… back to the dissertation writing!
Does freezing them affect the taste in anyway? I would have never thought of that.
Your photo looks great! I love the red Kitchenaid mixer… i have a plain ole white one.
Thanks for making these with me this week.
Karen, I am not sure if freezing with affect the taste of these. I did it with the other recipe and it was fine, so I figured I would try it with these…. we’ll see how it goes! Great pic for this month!
These look great.I had tried the toothpick/skewer thing the first time I made them with the same result. Fun to hear about the family recipe.
Thanks Crystal! I thought about using a fork like you did because I did that before, but I figured I might try it with the skewer – not much success! Oh well – next time I will use a fork.
These look beautiful! I thought the graham crackers were an interesting addition also. But, I liked them, and my husband liked them better than the recipe I have made all my life, so the graham crackers are a keeper! I would love to know they can be frozen. Please post about it!! Great pictures!
Great to know about the freezing option! I did 1/2 the recipe, and still had more than I knew what to do with.
What a great idea to freeze these!!! I cheated and dipped mine completely.
Love your new shiny toy! The red is so pretty. Nice job on your buckeyes. Dipping in chocolate is always a challenge. I also use the fork method. It’s not perfect, but it works. Glad to hear these didn’t dissapoint compared to your family recipe.
I chilled my in the refrigerator. I think it helped with the dipping. I love your photos!
These look great, sorry that I missed making them with the group! Have never made buckeyes but know they are delicious :)
MSU vs Iowa game is on in the other room, go Sparty!
Andrea – Just getting back into baking and blogging and I saw your comment. Thanks! I was probably watching the same game! Go green!