Chubby Hubby Buckeye Truffles!

The past couple of days I have really been craving some sweets! So I did what I do best, I went to Pinterest to find something yummy to make.  It didn’t take me long to find the perfect recipe to soothe my sweet tooth!  I followed the link to Six Sisters’ Stuff and got the recipe to make some delicious Chubby Hubby Buckeye Truffles (even the name sounds sweet!).  I was very excited to find out that I already had pretty much everything I needed at my house to make these; all I needed to buy was some chocolate chips.

This recipe is pretty simple and doesn’t have too many ingredients. All you need is:

·      1 ½ cup crushed pretzel pieces

·      ½ cup creamy peanut butter

·      1 tablespoon unsalted butter (at room temperature)

·      2 tablespoons brown sugar

·      Pinch of salt

·      3 tablespoons powdered sugar

·      1 cup chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)

·      1 tablespoon vegetable shortening

All of our ingredients!

The first thing you do when making these is break up some pretzels and put them into a bag to crush them, using a rolling pin works really well. 

She loved getting to crush the pretzels!

In a bowl mix together the peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, and salt until they everything is combined and creamy.  

Mackenzie making faces while mixing

Next add in the crushed up pretzels and powdered sugar and mix until they are completely combined.  

Before we mixed everything in.

Now that everything is mixed together it’s time to make the peanut butter pretzel balls! Get out a baking sheet and cover it with wax paper.  When forming the truffles you can use a small cookie scoop, but I just guessed.  Roll them gently into a ball your hands; it makes it a lot easier to do this if your hands are wet.  Once all the truffles are formed and on the sheet place them in the freezer for at least half an hour.

The peanut butter balls before I put them in the freezer.

Once you take the truffles out of the freezer its time to melt the chocolate!  To do this put the chocolate chips and vegetable shortening in a bowl and set the microwave to fifty percent and microwave for thirty seconds intervals until they are completely melted, make sure you stir the chocolate every thirty seconds.  

Our melted chocolate.

Once all the chocolate is melted you can start dipping the truffles in it.  Make sure every ball gets completely covered with chocolate; make sure you let the extra chocolate drip off before you put it back down on the sheet.  After all of the peanut butter pretzel balls are covered with chocolate put the sheet back into the freezer for at least a half an hour. 

Before I put them back in freezer.

When you pull the truffles out of the freezer you can either eat them just as they are or you can melt down some peanut butter and drizzle it over the tops of all the truffles. 

Some finished truffes!!

All together these took about 2 hours to make (including when they were in the freezer), and they were worth the wait! They were the perfect combination of peanut butter and chocolate, with the perfect amount of salt mixed in!  I hope you guys enjoy these as much as I did!