The pictures above are: on the left, a true buckeye nut from the buckeye tree which is the state tree of Ohio and on the right, a homemade chocolate/peanut butter concoction called a buckeye. Today's effort was the first time my mom and I had tried to make them and we used both the old-fashioned method of sticking them with a toothpick to dip them into the melted chocolate and then tried a device given to us by Denny's step-mother which looked like a smaller version of those little whatchamacallits that you use to dip hard-boiled eggs into Easter egg dye. Once we got the hang of using the wire dipper we decided it was the method of choice. Messy but fun and no more time consuming than making a standard batch of Christmas cookies, with the added benefit of the fact that they freeze well. That's so I won't feel obligated to eat them all before they go bad. Sigh.
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