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For sure! GO BUCKEYES! 👍😂

Buckeyes are very popular over the state line in Louisville, KY. I love buckeyes at Christmastime.

From Ohio….these are fabulous!🥰

I’m grew up in Ohio also and every grandmother in the state used to make these for the winter holidays. I make them myself now but you rarely find folks today that have ever heard of them unless they are from Ohio. I was over at some friends the other night and I asked them if they had ever had buckeyes and they didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, granted, they are about 25 -almost 30 years younger than me but it’s sad that they’ve been missing out all these years. I tried explaining how to make them but I’m extremely excited to see this recipe pop up cause I already forwarded it to them and hopefully they’ll try making them for their children. The only thing I would do slightly different tho is I like the peanut butter hole on top to be a bit smaller and actually more of a round shape, not the shape of a cat eye. The shape and size varies slightly from nut to nut on an actual Buckeye but for the most part, they are more round than the oval she presents here but the good thing about it tho is the fact that they are gonna be delicious either shape you make!! I do like my chocolate a bit thicker sometimes also so sometimes after I’ve gone through and dipped the entire batch, I’ll go through and dip them again. If I have plenty of time, I’ll take a paring knife and trim off the large chocolate Bell bottom on the bottom and let the shavings remelt in the double boiler and I’ll stick the tray back in the freezer for another 30-45, maybe 60 minutes to firm up well and then send them back through the chocolate swimming pool. This haunts me in most aspects of life unfortunately, but there’s nothing I can do about it, lol, I’m a perfectionist and I have found that by trimming the bottom Bell, refreezing again, then dipping for the second time, the chocolate seems to set a bit quicker and if you give it a little twirl & spin after it’s quick swim in the chocolate pool, you will have the nearly perfect Buckeye that God gives us each fall when you walk through the woods. But like I said earlier, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the way she did them here and both ways will be delicious and it’s just personal preference. I am just a Buckeye through and through so I strive to get them to look as close to what God gives us from the tree. Like I said, being a perfectionist actually haunts me when trying to make something like this but it’s still fun and brings back memories I wish were still real and not just memories now, but that’s life I spose. It brings back the memories of a simpler time, an easier life we once had but didn’t know at the time, and memories of the loved ones we cherished dearly, but never told them enough! Thank you Tammy ofor sharing this recipe so I can now share with others that just thought I’m crazy for loving a worthless nut from the woods!! Merry Christmas to all of you that read this long comment

Thank you for explaining that. I thought the buck in buck eye meant the eye of a male deer. 😂 Ya' learn somethin' new everyday!

That’s right. You make them that way to look like the nut.

No we don't do that

Very very rarely

@@CollardValleyCooks thank you 🙏 🥰

I like milk

Uumm, yes and no. The “State Tree of Ohio”, is the Buckeye Tree. Now… the Native Americans called “Colonel Ebenezer Sprout”, (the founder of the city of Marietta), “Hetuck”, due to his tall, strong, stature. “Hetuck”, in their language meant, “eye of the buck deer”, or “Big Buckeye”. Col. Sprout, claims to be the first person to cut down a “Buckeye Tree”. Thus, due to this unofficial legend of Col. Sprout’s association with the “tree” and his nickname “Buckeye”, the name of this unknown tree was created. The “nut” of a buckeye tree, resembles an “eye” from a “buck”. It is inedible to people, unless it has gone through a specific series of “preparations”. The leave’s odor, when crushed, is terrible and reminiscent of the smell of skunk; thus further rendering it unappealing to eat. However, it is a beautiful flowering tree, and the nut, being very distinctive and strong in nature, was, and still is, often used for carving into trinkets to buy/sell. It wasn’t officially named Ohio’s “State Tree”, until 1953.