Turkey Shaped Buckeye Peanut Butter Balls

By carvalhohm2

Ingredients

• Chocolate baking squares (or chips, or melting wafers)
• Peanut butter melting wafers (or tan colored chocolate)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 cups icing sugar
• Orange candy colored sunflower seeds
• Small red heart sprinkles
• Candy eyeballs

Details

Adapted from youtube.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Melt chocolate in 30 second intervals in the microwave at 50% power, or use a double boiler.

2. Using a silicone oval mold (get it here: http://amzn.to/1xLZKE1), fill cavities with 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate. Place in fridge to harden. Repeat with a second coat of chocolate, ensuring that all holes, or gabs are filled in.

3. Melt more chocolate into a piping bag, and snip a small piece of the tip with scissors
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4. On a baking tray, lined with a piece of parchment paper, pipe out the outline of tail feathers for the turkey. Place into the fridge to harden once one set of feathers per turkey has been completed.

5. Once feather outlines are hardened, fill in the tail feather out line with the melted peanut butter chocolate, which is also in a piping bag.

6. With the peanut butter chocolate, also pipe small feet for the turkey.
7. Place tray into the fridge to harden.

8. To make the peanut butter filling, cream butter and peanut butter together in a medium sized bowl, using a large spoon.

9. Add the icing sugar and mix until combined. Mixture will look grainy, but if pressed together, balls will be able to be formed.

10. Remove hardened chocolate cavities from the fridge and fill each cavity with peanut butter filling.

11. Once each cavity is filled, cover peanut butter mixture with melted chocolate, sealing the peanut butter inside. Ensure that there are no gaps of chocolate. Return to fridge to solidify.

12. Once chocolate and peanut butter cavities are completely solid, you can remove them from the silicone mold.

13. Using melted chocolate, attach eyes, beak and wattle to the turkey's face. Then the tail feather and feet.

14. Serve when desired once the chocolate is set.

15. These are best kept in the fridge in a sealed container, for 2-3 days.