Keto Buckeyes Chocolate and Peanut Butter Balls Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How long can you keep buckeyes in the fridge? ›

Storage Tips

Make sure your buckeyes stay fresh for as long as possible! The buckeyes should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator to keep them nice and fresh. Stored in this way, they will keep for about 1 month (although good luck keeping them that long without eating them all, ha!).

If your peanut butter balls are runny, you probably used a particularly "wet" or oily peanut butter. Most natural peanut butters are too runny for this recipe, which works best with peanut butters like Maranatha, Jif, or Skippy.

Peanut Butter Chia Pudding a healthy keto vegan breakfast or dessert made with chia seeds, unsweetened almond milk, and sugar-free monk fruit syrup. Peanut Butter Fat Bombs are easy keto treats made of only 4 ingredients: peanut butter, coconut oil, cocoa butter (or butter), and stevia vanilla drops.

SHORTENING added to the chocolate is the big secret ingredient for buckeyes. This helps stabilize the chocolate so that it dips nicely, and helps prevent the chocolate from weeping and sweating once it's hardened. Traditionally, people added paraffin wax to the chocolate to achieve this.

Buckeyes are fine to sit out at room temperature on holiday cookie plates for up to 24 hours, though if you're keeping them around for longer than that, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator where they'll stay fresh for up to 2 weeks. Buckeyes also freeze super well.

Transfer the buckeyes to a shallow, airtight container. Store in the refrigerator for up to one week.

If your butter was too soft or if the peanut butter you're using is too thin, the filling can get a little soft and sticky as you're rolling. The refrigerator can fix that—stop what you're doing and chill the bowl of filling for 15 minutes in the refrigerator before trying again to roll into balls.

Why are my Peanut Butter Balls so sticky? First, make sure you're using regular peanut butter (rather than the natural peanut butter that's more runny). If it's too sticky still, you can simply add a little more powdered sugar until it's a nice consistency for rolling into small balls.

Troubleshooting this Recipe for Buckeye Balls

Too crumbly: This generally means there's too much powdered sugar. Try adding an additional 1/4 cup of peanut butter to the mixture.

Peanut butter can definitely be part of a keto diet, but it's best to stick to plain options that are free of extra flavors and sweeteners. Almond butter is a good choice, too, and it's slightly lower in carbs. Additionally, you should be mindful of your portion size if you're trying to lose weight.

Can you eat too much peanut butter on keto? ›

Furthermore, most people will agree that peanut butter is delicious — it can be great for supporting weight loss on any diet when consumed in the right amounts. Limit yourself to 5 tablespoons per day on keto, measure your blood sugar and ketone levels if needed, and feel free to explore different ways to eat it.

The standard ketogenic diet requires you to keep net carb consumption under 50 grams per day. At just 4 grams of net carbs per serving, you can safely consume peanut butter as long as you stick to a low carb peanut butter and stay under your total daily carb intake.

Poisonous Plant: All parts of the plant (leaves, bark, fruit) are highly toxic if ingested – because of the glycoside aesculin, the saponin aescin, and possibly alkaloids. Symptoms are muscle weakness and paralysis, dilated pupils, vomiting, diarrhea, depression, paralysis, and stupor.

The buckeye candy resembles the nut of the buckeye tree, with a shiny, dark brown exterior and light brown "eye." The story goes that buckeye's name came from Native Americans who thought the glossy, chestnut-brown seed resembled the eye of, you guessed it, a buck (that's a male deer, for you city folk).

To avoid a dry, crumby dough . . .

Mix together the peanut butter and butter first, and then stir in the powdered sugar one cup at a time, until you reach the right consistency. Usually about 3 cups of powdered sugar will do for approximately 1 1/2-2 cups of peanut butter.

Remove the nuts from the leathery husks and store them in the refrigerator for 120 days.

They can live 250 years. California Buckeye is native only in the California Floristic Province. It is well adapted to our Mediterranean climate.

Seeds of Ohio buckeye should not be allowed to dry out. They can be stored for short periods (1 year) in air tight containers in the refrigerator if not allowed to dry out.

However, as the buckeye ages, it shrivels, the surface wrinkles, the gloss fades and the marbling becomes a deep, dark brown. It is said you can rub your favorite buckeye along the side of your nose to keep it oiled. While I haven't tried that, you can apply lacquer to a dried buckeye to keep the gloss look.