Buckeyes
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My husband loves these and I've made them in the past but never paid attention to the calories. They can pack quite a wallop if you are vacuuming in a bunch and not paying attention, but individually, they are not too bad if you are enjoying one or two, or four. lol We freeze them which takes longer to enjoy. I got a recipe on allcooks.com and the recipe claimed they were 95 calories each for 30 balls, but when I calculated the ingredients, they were over 200 calories each! I would be careful getting anything online and make sure you double check the numbers to be safe. I got 38 20g balls out of this recipe and it came out to roughly 151.31 calories each.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter softened to room temp. 800 calories
Peanut butter 16oz (I used low fat so calories were 2380 for the jar)
Powdered sugar 2 cups 960 calories
bag of milk chocolate chips 1610.
Total calories for entire batch 5750
38 balls formed at 20g in weight= 151 calories.
Directions
Dump peanut butter into large bowl and add butter and cream together until fully mixed and has a light and whipped look. Add cups of sugar one at a time and mix with a spoon. (you can add more sugar if you want a firmer mixture, but its more calories for it. The original recipe called for 3 1/2 cups.)
form 1 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet covered in wax paper and place a tooth pick into each ball and place into refrigerator for an hour.
When balls are ready for dipping, take the bag of chocolate chips and melt them in a microwave safe bowl 45 seconds at a time and stir. once chips are mostly melted, just keep stirring until smooth. Dip balls into melted chocolate and place back on wax paper and put back into fridge until hard.
These freeze really well and can be enjoyed frozen or at room temp, but they go fast!
As you can see, they are a decent size and two is more than enough since they are pretty rich! You may be able to make a lower calorie version using PB2 and margarine but I didn't have either on hand to try it.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter softened to room temp. 800 calories
Peanut butter 16oz (I used low fat so calories were 2380 for the jar)
Powdered sugar 2 cups 960 calories
bag of milk chocolate chips 1610.
Total calories for entire batch 5750
38 balls formed at 20g in weight= 151 calories.
Directions
Dump peanut butter into large bowl and add butter and cream together until fully mixed and has a light and whipped look. Add cups of sugar one at a time and mix with a spoon. (you can add more sugar if you want a firmer mixture, but its more calories for it. The original recipe called for 3 1/2 cups.)
form 1 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet covered in wax paper and place a tooth pick into each ball and place into refrigerator for an hour.
When balls are ready for dipping, take the bag of chocolate chips and melt them in a microwave safe bowl 45 seconds at a time and stir. once chips are mostly melted, just keep stirring until smooth. Dip balls into melted chocolate and place back on wax paper and put back into fridge until hard.
These freeze really well and can be enjoyed frozen or at room temp, but they go fast!
As you can see, they are a decent size and two is more than enough since they are pretty rich! You may be able to make a lower calorie version using PB2 and margarine but I didn't have either on hand to try it.
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My wife always makes those around Christmas. She found a lower calorie recipe. I forget what she used, but they are good.
Larro0 -
My wife always makes those around Christmas. She found a lower calorie recipe. I forget what she used, but they are good.
Larro0 -
I called my wife and ask her what she used. It is graham cracker crumbs and peanut butter to make up the balls, then dip them in chocolate. There was no sugar or butter. They wouldn't be as rich, but I remember liking them.
Larro
Edit: You could use less butter and Splenda. That way they would still be kind of rich, and sweet.0 -
The problem around here is anything with peanut butter never survives long enough to get dipped in the chocolate lol. Same for chocolate chip cookies, the dough's usually gone before you get to the oven. I'm going have to jot this recipe down.0
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