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!
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Buckeye Bats
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Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate candy melts
- 1 1/2 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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