BUCKEYES!!

In honor of the first Ohio State game of the season, Regina and I decided to be adventurous and true Ohioans and make our own buckeyes! Of course, no one knew what we were talking about. But we did. And as soon as we said that we were making balls of chocolate and peanut butter (which was ironic because for our last all hall dinner -the day before- the hall in charge of desserts had made peanut butter, oreo, and chocolate chocolate covered balls so everyone thought at first that we were making those. We had to explain that we were making something better. Like Reese's? Yes, but again, better.
So we went shopping for our ingredients - peanut butter, butter, a LOT of powdered sugar, vanilla, and chocolate. Which, I don't know if I've mentioned, we usually go to Coles for grocery shopping and I'm now so used to it that I don't think Kohls, instead of Coles. But we did find a cheaper grocery store this past week, it is just further away. Anyway, back to the point. We got all the way back to the P&O and reread the directions and realised that we needed toothpicks and didn't have any. So Regina biked to Coles this time while I slowly started making the peanut butter mix.
We soon discovered that it is ineffective to try and mix a cup and a half of peanut butter with 6 cups of powdered sugar (which they call icing flour here or something like that). So Regina put on the latex gloves usually reserved for raw meat and mixed it by hand.

Next it was time to make the peanut butter/sugar mix into balls and put tooth picks in them so that we could dip them in chocolate after they had chilled for awhile. 

These are 2/3 of the balls made haha we ended up making almost 80 buckeyes!

MELTING CHOCOLATE! Fun fact - there was a lot of melted chocolate left over so we went at it with spoons and ate more than we probably should have.

Speed dipping the peanut butter balls in the chocolate with Tasha our excellent photographer!

Regina and I each took a plate of 20 and donated the rest to the community shelf in the fridge and I took some to the movie night in Anna's suite (our Hall Supervisor) for the Tangled movie night! Everyone LOVED them!! 

-we know this because they were all gone before the next day-

GO BUCKS!!