Buckeye Bars

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By Shauna Sever

The Buckeye is simply a cherished confection successful the Midwest: Little balls of peanut food filling are enrobed successful chocolate, prevention for a small, circular model truthful that they lucifer buckeye nuts, which are autochthonal to Ohio. The candies are time-consuming to make, truthful this barroom mentation — chopped into tiny fingers due to the fact that a small goes a agelong mode — delivers each the pleasance with precise small effort. It's fundamentally a full cookware of peanut food cups.

To marque a nut-free mentation of this recipe, regenerate the peanut food with Biscoff cooky food and trim the confectioners' sweetener to 1 cup.

This look tin easy beryllium doubled for a 9-by-13-inch pan.

Adapted from "Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland" by Shauna Sever (Running Press, 2019).

Ingredients

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Servings: 18 (makes 18 bars / 1 8-inch slab)

For the peanut food layer

  • 1 3/4 cups (215 grams) precise finely crushed graham cracker crumbs (from 14 rectangles, crushed successful a integrative container with a rolling pin oregon successful a nutrient processor)
  • 1 1/2 cups (160 grams) confectioners' sugar
  • 10 tablespoons (1 instrumentality positive 2 tablespoons/140 grams) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 3/4 cupful (192 grams) creamy peanut butter, specified arsenic Skippy oregon Jif brand
  • 2 ounces (57 grams) full-fat pick cheese, softened
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 spoon good salt

For the cocoa layer

  • 3/4 cupful (125 grams) semisweet oregon bittersweet cocoa chips
  • 1 tablespoonful creamy peanut butter
  • Flaky oversea salt, specified arsenic Maldon, for sprinkling (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per bar

  • Calories

    240

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    7 g

  • Carbohydrates

    24 g

  • Sodium

    170 mg

  • Cholesterol

    20 mg

  • Protein

    4 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    15 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland" by Shauna Sever (Running Press, 2019).

Tested by Diana Maxwell and Amanda Soto.

Published December 3, 2019

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Updated March 16, 2026

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