Name: Buckeye Balls
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 60
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter; 1/2 cup butter or margarine; 1 tsp vanilla; 16 oz powdered sugar; 12 oz chocolate chips; 1/2 cup butter or margarine

Recipe from Cary Yudes

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Buckeye Balls

Courses: Candy

Difficulty: Intermediate Prep Time 40 mins

Servings: 60

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ cup creamy peanut butter
¹⁄₂ cup butter or margarine (room temperature)
1 tsp vanilla
16 oz powdered sugar (3 3/4 cups)
12 oz chocolate chips
¹⁄₂ cup butter or margarine

Instructions

Line a baking sheet with wax paper. In a medium sized bowl, mix peanut butter, butter, vanilla and sugar with hands until mixture is crumbly. Shape dough into balls using 2 T. for each. Place on wax paper and put in refrigerator.
In the top of a double boiler over simmering, not boiling, water, melt chocolate and shortening together. When smooth, pour into a small bowl or measuring cup.
Remove peanut butter balls from refrigerator. Insert a wooden pick into a ball and dip into melted chocolate so 3/4 of ball is coated. Return to wax paper, chocolate side down and remove pick. Dip all balls.
Refrigerate on wax paper 30 minutes or longer, until chocolate is firm, not sticky. Store in plastic container with wax paper between layers. Refrigerate.