Buckeyes

5 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. margarine or butter
  • 2 lb. creamy peanut butter
  • 3 lb. powdered sugar
  • semi-sweet chocolate chips (amount varies)
  • paraffin

Directions

  1. 1
    Melt margarine (butter).
  2. 2
    Mix margarine, peanut butter and sugar together until completely blended and smooth.
  3. 3
    If mixture is too soft for rolling, add a little extra sugar.
  4. 4
    Roll into smooth balls about the size of a buckeye.
  5. 5
    Melt together one 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips and 1/8 cake of paraffin.
  6. 6
    Using toothpicks, dip balls into chocolate chip mixture, leaving a portion around toothpicks uncoated.
  7. 7
    (It may be necessary to prepare a second batch of the chocolate chip mixture.)
  8. 8
    Place dipped balls on waxed paper or baking paper until chocolate has hardened.
  9. 9
    Store in tin can.
  10. 10
    Makes about 150 to 200 buckeyes.

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