What is a Buckeye?

A buckeye is a nut. A poisonous nut to be exact. So probably you would want to eat them. BUT when recreated as a peanut butter and chocolate treat they are equally as deadly... I made some this weekend for the Ohio State v Michigan game, and people at work had no doubt who they were rooting for on game day. I was pretty popular for about a half hour!! Ha!

Here's the recipe...

2 cups peanut butter
5 1/4 cups confectioner's sugar
1 1/2 tbsp vanilla
2 sticks butter
12 oz chocolate chips
1/2 bar paraffin wax
toothpicks
wax paper

Mix together sugar, peanut butter, butter and vanilla. Let the mixture chill, and form into balls. Then mix paraffin and chocolate chips in a double boiler. Dip the peanut butter balls in chocolate and let sit on the wax paper. Put them in the fridge for a few hours, and ta-da! You will have instant popularity in your workplace or tailgate party!!!

Isn't Brutus adorable? Nothing scarier than a poisonous nut-head!

Halloween 2009

There's nothing like a bunch of adults dressed up in costumes. No other day would that be acceptable Thank goodness for Halloween!

I had a party this year, and was pretty impressed with our decorating skills. For such a clean person, Steve is really good with cob webs!
And I definitely learned a thing or two about dry ice. Be careful! If you put too much in a caldren it will freeze your whole brew into one big slushy block!

Spooky!
Some costumes were funny...
Some were cute...

And some were really scary!