Bethany, Bekah and Abigail helped me mix, shape and decorate buckeyes Wednesday morning. The ladies in our family are hosting a cookie exchange this Saturday. I babysat the girls while Carmen kept a doctor appointment, and it seemed the perfect opportunity to play with colored sprinkles while preparing for the party this weekend. The chocolate-covered, peanut butter candies aren't technically cookies, but I figured that they would cause our guests' mouths to water before they could complain.
The girls measured and stirred ingredients for the peanut butter centers of the candies. Then we rolled them into balls. Bethany finished a page of math while the peanut butter balls cooled in the freezer. Then I dipped them into melted chocolate, and the girls adorned them with colored sprinkles and edible gold balls. While the chocolate hardened, Bethany copied and illustrated the recipe and Bekah dictated the story of making buckeyes.
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| Bekah holding her story of the Buckeyes |
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| Bethany's illustrated recipe |
Buckeyes
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 cups powdered sugar
4-6 cups chocolate chips
Combine peanut butter, butter, vanilla extract and powdered sugar. The mixture will be dry. Roll mixture into small balls. Place on a wax paper lined cookie sheet and chill in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler or in the microwave. One at a time dip peanut butter balls in the chocolate. Return candies to wax paper lined cookie sheet. Decorate with sprinkles.
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| Abigail helped lick the utensils |
(Any ladies in our area are invited to bring three dozen cookies and attend the cookie exchange at 1 p.m. at our house this Saturday. No fair to bring buckeyes, unless you decorate them with a different type of sprinkles!)
Ugh...I hate to admit this but this post makes me miss first grade. Made me think of the year we made cupcakes from a box mix every time someone in the class had a birthday. The first time we did it as a whole group then afterward the birthday person got to pick two friends to help. I sent them off in a corner to read the directions and mix it up themselves. It was interesting to hear them work through the process together. Oh...the good old days :)
ReplyDeleteThese look (and sound!) delicious! And thank you for sharing the recipe . . . as I began reading the post, I was hoping that there would be a recipe for them included! I already copied it off and look forward to making them sometime. :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun! Wish I could join you for the exchange. Company's coming from NE. Maybe next year...eat one with sprinkles for me!
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