110 Balls

Tiring night number five, but hopefully it’s the last! Tonight was supposed to consist of just little cooking and cleaning and a whole lot of relaxin. But it didn’t turn out that way.

I got started on the right foot with a quick Indian meal and a beer. This beer was perfect! One of my favorite holiday beers of 2011!

After dinner, the plan was to make peanut butter buckeyes, one of my favorite holiday treats. If you’re not familiar with buckeyes, they are basically big balls of sweet peanut butter dipped in chocolate. I made them last year and they were perfect, but I don’t remember which recipe I used, so I just googled a new one. I followed a recipe that was supposed to make roughly 36 balls. As soon as I started mixing though, I realized something was majorly wrong. The portions were way off and I basically had a big bowl of powdered sugar and only a few clumps of peanut butter (and that was after adding over a jar). So I had to drop everything and go to the grocery store for more peanut butter. Not necessarily a bad thing, but since I had no idea what the right portions were, I just added more peanut butter until it tasted right. Although it tasted great, the consistency was then too moist, so they didn’t hold up that well when I dipped them in the chocolate. That, and adding more peanut butter means more batter and more buckeyes. I now have 110 balls chillin in my fridge. I hope people like peanut butter.

Bedtime.