These buckeye bats are peanut butter dipped in chocolate and crafted by a cookie to fly!
Happy October!
Over the past couple of weeks, my kids and I have been creating Halloween fun treats! We are creating projects and yummy treats that we can do during their Halloween class parties as well as our own Halloween party!
I am not a fan of bats, actually I am petrified of them! In Junior High, I was staying in a cabin at a summer camp, and while sound asleep on the top bunk I had a bat land on my nose. One of the worst experiences ever!
I do however, like anything peanut butter and chocolate and these adorable, yummy buckeye bats look nothing like the bat I encountered in Junior High!
My kids and I had a great time creating these buckeye bats as we rolled the peanut butter balls, dipped them in rich chocolate, and added the bat wings and googly eyes!
These buckeye bats are a perfect Halloween sweet treat, and as we nibbled on them we planned our Halloween party and how everyone would get a chance to create one of these! We bagged these up with paper bags, tied them with bakery string and shared them with our neighbors and other friends!
Buckeye Bats
Ingredients
- 1¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1½ cups dark chocolate candy melts
- 1½ teaspoons canola oil
- 18 fudge striped cookies
- 36 candy corn M&Ms
- 36 chocolate chips
- 18 decorative paper straws
Instructions
- Mix together peanut butter, butter, sugar, and vanilla. Mix together until all the ingredients are well combined. The mixture should be thick and creamy.
- Take a heaping teaspoon of peanut butter mixture and roll into a ball.
- Place a piece of wax/parchment paper on a cookie sheet, place the peanut butter balls on the cookie sheet, and put a straw in the middle of each one.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- While the peanut balls are getting ready, break in half the fudge striped cookies for the wings. To make the googly eyes put the chocolate chips on a plate, and place in microwave for 15 seconds. Take the chocolate chips and put one on each M&M. Only do six at a time to keep the chips from melting.
- In a microwave safe bowl put the chocolate candy melts and oil. Place in microwave in increments of 25 seconds , stirring after each time until melted.
- Dip each peanut butter ball into the chocolate, coating the whole bottom but leaving the top open to see the peanut butter. I used a Tablespoon to fish each peanut butter ball out of the chocolate.
- Place the buckeyes back on the cookie sheet.
- Place a half of cookie into each side of the buckeye to make the wings, gently press. Then add a pair of googly eyes to each buckeye!
- Place back in the fridge for 10-15 minutes, or until chocolate hardens.
- Enjoy these buckeye bats!
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This post was originally shared last October!!
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