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Chocolate Peanut Butter Acorns: Buckeye Acorns

Last night, I couldn’t sleep and so decided to try and organize my posts a bit better.  I started a holiday label on my sidebar to organize Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. posts and found myself craving something sweet!  How cute would it be to create acorn buckeyes???  Then I did what you should NEVER do.  I googled “peanut butter chocolate acorn” and found that someone else already beat me to it.  Of course they did.  Gah!  Ah well, it is still a good idea, and so I share it with you.

I followed my lower fat buckeye recipe found here, shaped the “dough” into Hershey kiss shapes and popped them in the freezer.

While they were freezing, I melted some chocolate chips in the microwave (stir every 30 seconds or so) and then dipped my kisses into the chocolate.

They looked a little bland with just chocolate so I thought I’d put some chocolate sprinkles on them.  Drat!  All out of chocolate sprinkles.
No worries.  I’ll just mix in some black food coloring into my sprinkles and make them black.
Right after dipping the dough in chocolate, dip it in your sprinkles and place back on your cookie sheet (on its side).  Pop them all back in the freezer until set and then enjoy!
They would look cute with a little pretzel stem but we didn’t have any.
So much for those five pounds I’ve lost!  Sigh.  I just cannot resist peanut butter and chocolate.
These would make adorable cupcake toppers, but I’m trying not to give myself any more ideas!  I’d like to fit back into my skinny jeans someday.  Linking up to Fireflies & Jellybeans party and Just a Girl’s party!
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  4. Wow – when I can't sleep I usually just veg in front of a movie.. you are very industrious! These look amazing,and I never would have thought of dying the sprinkles black! Did you use gel food coloring or liquid?

  6. They will have a place on our Thanksgiving table as well.
    Thank you for sharing!

  7. Yay…thank you for this post. My husband LOVEs buckeyes, I'm going to make some for him! What a clever idea to make them look like acorns!

  9. Oh. My. Word. I would literally sit and pop those suckers into my mouth until I puked. Simply because they're so darn cute! NICE job!

  11. OH, so cute. Just adorable.

    I have a new policy, though: I am only going to make buckeyes at Christmas. I made some this summer, just for fun. . . and guess who ate most of them? I mean, I have three teenage boys in the house, you'd think they'd be gone in a heartbeat, right? You wouldn't think the mom could eat too many of them, right?

    Wrong. The mom ate WAY too many of them. And I need to do some remedial skinny-jean work before Thanksgiving!!

  12. One of my favorite food during Christmas are buckeyes…and you made them better with the chocolate sprinkles! Can't wait to make them!

  14. Um trying not to lick my computer screen right now… I NEED to make those!

  15. These. Look. DIVINE.

    Lady, you are killing me!
    (but good on ya – super creative idea!) 🙂

    Cheers

  18. That looks so yummy!!! I might have to steal, uhhh I mean borrow this idea for an upcoming family party!

  19. never heard of a buckeye recipe. they sure look good though. I see you are from PA. Email me and tell me what part? I am close to PA.

  21. oh my gosh, what are you trying to do to me? they look so yummy, and yet i find that they remind me of little hedgehogs. is that bizarre? i fear it is!

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