This might not have been the best project for the end of a long work week.
This is another one of those recipes in my 'Must Try It' file.  I was really looking forward to making this stuff.  End of.
The reality is that I  was kinda grouchy, kinda tired, kinda already stretched thin.  Truth is though that I needed to get my hands into something but I was out of sorts enough not to be able to settle on something.  Just in a funk.
I thought that maybe the mundane rolling and dipping of balls would be just the thing to settle my mind and put me in the right frame of mind.  What the project did though was just frustrate me from beginning to end.
The forming of the balls got tedious and Kid #1 and Kid #2 couldn't keep out of it


- which is fine really, it just means that there is a lot of questions and possibly bickering and then eating of unformed balls and...


Then came the chocolate.
I didn't have a full 12 ounces.  I used the 6 oz that I had and decided that I would finish the rest tomorrow.
And then there was the dipping of the balls in chocolate.  If there is anything more frustrating then trying not to drop and entire ball into chocolate and then lifting it out, letting it drip off (while leaving some of the ball untouched by chocolate), placing it beautifully on a piece of parchment without the ball looking like it got poked or scraped or just generally mucked up then I don't know about it.


What really irked me was that the damn things tasted better than the sum of their parts.  The peanut butter stuff on it's own wasn't a thrill ride and we all know that dark chocolate melted and all by itself isn't gonna make fireworks in your mouth.  Combine the two and something kinda nice happens.  It's rich mind and one or two will do you (not a bad thing though when it comes to sweets, eh?)

Would I do this again soon?  NO... Hell No!  Was it worth it?  Now that I've had a glass of something that the kids can't drink I can honestly say that yeah it was worth it (but it wasn't worth it as much as those Twix Bars were worth it - I'm still dreaming about those things!)  


Buckeyes from Dana Treat from Baked Explorations
makes a boat load - about 40

1/4 cup cream cheese, soft
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
1 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 9 crackers)
3 cups icing sugar, sifted
3/4 cups unsalted butter, melted and cooled
12 oz dark chocolate, chopped

Combine the cream cheese and peanut butter together until it's well mixed.
Add in the graham cracker crumbs and mix well.
Add in half the melted butter and combine thoroughly.
Add in icing sugar and mix in thoroughly.
Add the rest of the butter and mix.
Let the mixture rest for a few minutes.
Form into balls by the tablespoons and place on some parchment or something.

Melt the chocolate (double boiler or microwave if you wish).
Let it cool just a little.
Take the peanut butter balls and use something brilliant to dip the balls into the chocolate without getting the whole ball covered (ie. leave some 'unchocolated').  Lift the ball and let the chocolate drip off a bit and then remove back to the parchment.
Let the beautiful chocolate balls harden or firm up or whatever...