Toffee Crunch Peanut Butter Buckeyes

October 18, 2023

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A simple buckeye recipe, these chocolate coated peanut butter truffles are good for the vacation season! What makes them stand other than each different buckeye sweet recipe? You combine toffee into the peanut butter filling and high every buckeye with a honey roasted peanut.

Peanut Butter Buckeyes

Are you able to consider a greater mixture than chocolate and peanut butter? I can’t! Creamy peanut butter fudge, home made peanut butter cups, and chocolate peanut butter truffles are all proof the flavour combo works brilliantly!

My newest chocolate & peanut butter obsession? Peanut Butter Buckeye Sweet! They appear like they got here from a flowery sweet store and are simple to make. They usually make an awesome home made vacation reward!

What Does Buckeye Sweet Style Like?

Taste: The primary taste to hit you’ll positively be peanut butter! However these buckeyes even have notes of toffee, milk chocolate, darkish chocolate, salt, and espresso. The flavors are all delicate and don’t overwhelm each other.
Texture: The peanut butter filling is creamy and crunchy, and the darkish chocolate coating provides much more crunch. There’s additionally a honey roasted peanut on high of every buckeye for much more crunch! When you love crunchy and creamy candies, you’ll love these!

Substances for this Buckeye Recipe

Peanut Butter: I don’t recommend utilizing pure peanut butter for this recipe. As a substitute, I like to recommend an ordinary creamy peanut butter like JIF or Peter Pan.
Butter: Unsalted butter works finest for this recipe. You’ll need it barely softer than room temperature, in order that it simply blends into the peanut butter filling.
Vanilla Extract: As at all times, I like to recommend utilizing pure vanilla. Not imitation or synthetic vanilla, which can give your buckeye sweet an odd style.
Salt: Only a sprint helps stability sweetness and improve the opposite flavors on this buckeye recipe.
Confectioners’ Sugar: Aka powdered sugar. You’ll want to sift the powdered sugar earlier than utilizing it so your peanut butter filling is clean and lump free.
Milk: Complete milk aka full-fat milk works finest within the peanut butter filling, however any milk will technically work.
HEATH Bars: These milk chocolate English toffee sweet bars are simply accessible at most grocery shops. When you can’t discover them, be at liberty to make use of an equal quantity of toffee bits and chopped milk chocolate as an alternative.
Darkish Chocolate: When you don’t like darkish chocolate, be at liberty to make use of milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate as an alternative.
Espresso Powder: This enhances the darkish chocolate taste, however is an non-obligatory ingredient. You possibly can 100% make this recipe with out utilizing it.
Honey Roasted Peanuts: We high the buckeyes with nuts and it’s completely scrumptious! Not solely do the nuts add crunch and sweetness, however they make the buckeye sweet look additional fairly.

Buckeye dough ready to be rolled into truffles.

Creamy Peanut Butter Filling

Tools: You’ll want a handheld electrical mixer or stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment to make the peanut butter filling! And ensure your whole substances are at room temperature earlier than starting.
Recommendation: If you add the powdered sugar, solely add a 1/2 cup at a time. In any other case the powdered sugar will fly up and make an enormous mess. Gradual and regular is the best way to go when including powdered sugar.
Methods to Repair the Peanut Butter Filling: In case your filling appears too dry, add in a little bit additional milk. And in case your filling appears to sticky, add in a little bit extra powdered sugar. I recommend including in a teaspoon of milk at a time, and a 1/4 cup of powdered sugar at a time. The peanut butter filling ought to appear like play dough.
Use a Cookie Scoop: A small cookie scoop will make it simple to portion out 1 tablespoon-sized rounds of filling. You’ll want to place the balls on a pan lined with parchment paper or wax paper so that they don’t stick! And chill till agency, about half-hour to 1 hour.

Fork dipping the buckeyes into the dark chocolate coating.

Dip the Peanut Butter Balls

Soften the Darkish Chocolate: I wish to soften the chocolate within the microwave. However in the event you don’t have one, you need to use a doubler boiler or make one.
Dip the Buckeye Sweet: As soon as the buckeyes have firmed up within the freezer, they’re able to be dipped in chocolate. Fastidiously dip the underside of every ball within the melted chocolate, leaving a small spherical of peanut butter nonetheless seen.
Permit Extra Chocolate to Drip: The key to much less messy buckeyes? Let any extra chocolate drip again into the bowl earlier than putting the buckeyes on the lined baking sheet.
Chill till Stable: Place the peanut butter balls to the fridge to set, about 1 hour. This buckeye recipe is finest served chilled, however can be okay at room temperature for just a few hours.