My husband isn’t exactly what you’d call “a chef” or “a cook” or “someone who knows where the whisks go when emptying the dishwasher.” He knows how to make two things: 1) leftovers he can heat up in the microwave and 2) Peanut Butter Dandies.
So guess what he made me as my Mother’s Day treat last Sunday… no, not leftovers… Peanut Butter Dandies! Oh, and then I may have modified them just a titch. He wasn’t offended or anything.
Peanut Butter Dandies are jam packed with childhood memories for my husband. He grew up on the things. To me they are just delicious little nuggets from heaven but I AM a bit biased toward peanut butter. As a matter of fact, there was a three year period where all I ate for lunch every day was a peanut butter & honey sandwich. Every. Day. For three years. I would actually be SAD if someone wanted to go out to lunch & I didn’t get to have it. Peanut butter might be inextricably linked to my childhood as well . . . I’ll ask a therapist to delve into that further one day.
Anyway…. the reason YOU should love them is that they are super easy, require three ingredients (four with my modification), the kids can practically make them on their own and I can almost guarantee you have ALL the ingredients down in your food storage! That’s right, file these away in your “Good Food Storage Recipes” binder. It’s a keeper.
Does it get any easier than that?? My husband did 2 cups each of peanut butter and honey and 4 cups of powdered milk and it was plenty. I know they don’t LOOK particularly pretty but this is a classic case of Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover.
And what was my modification? As if you didn’t know. I dipped them in melted chocolate! I may need to add melting chocolate to my food storage because WOW. They’re pretty much homemade peanut butter cup truffles. I would call them that but Peanut Butter Dandies is way too much fun to say. We’ve now shortened it to PBDs…. also fun to say.
Enjoy!
Ah, we used to make that when I was a kid, only we just ate it strait out of the bowl with spoons.
But I didn’t know what they were called or how to find the recipe. So thank you!
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I could just picture little hands squishing into a bowl of this! Looks delish, with and without the chocolate!
Yum. I think you just destroyed my diet!
Takes me back to my childhood. It’s like your husband was my brother. Good one! Thanks
Steve’s grandma makes a huge batch of these (dipped in chocolate, claro) and she has one other little ingredient–rice krispies. They are mucho yummy, though it is rumored that one of the grandkids found a cathair in her last batch. She is in her 90s so thanks for posting this here in case I need it in the next 10 years or so.
Where was this recipe when I was living off of our food storage for one (should have been two!) weeks? I could’ve just made these on a daily basis and we’d have had our protein & dairy. Shoot!
We called these Buckeye’s growing up. I just found out that my new boss is a chocolate/peanut butter-aholic so looks like I’ll be bringing a big plate of these into work soon! Thanks for the idea!
These look delish!!
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Growing up, my Mom would make this for me, and call it Peanut Butter Play-doh! She let me play with it, then eat it, and MAN did I love it!
Thanks for giving me a grown-up version of it dipped in chocolate…I have to show this to my mom!
Oooooh, these look so yummy!!!
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YUM! My kids will love making these this summer.
I can not wait to try these. I love everything Peanut Butter and Chocolate!!
Ooh, I these sound yummy…and EASY!
Who doesn’t love easy and PNB! I have a nephew that is going to love this!
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So easy! Love PB, I think I will make these very soon. Would love for you to share this at Fat Camp Friday this weekend. One recipe is picked every Monday and featured on my front page all week! http://tiny.cc/FatCampFriday29