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Halloween is a time when, for a change, you don’t want your food to look good. In fact, the more you can gross people out, the better the treat. So when I stumbled across a recipe for peanut-buttery, bloody eyeballs, I thought I’d give it a go.
The recipe seemed simple enough, a no-bake concoction laden with the richness of lots of peanut butter and creamy white chocolate, but I hit problems before I even tied on my apron.
The recipe called for a Butterfinger bar — a chocolate bar not sold in Canada and something I had never tried.
After consulting two friends and reaching no consensus on an appropriate alternative, I settled for a Crispy Crunch-Wunderbar combination and got to work.
The eyeballs ended up being pretty easy to make. The most time-consuming part was forming countless peanut-butter balls by hand and then freezing them for an hour. It’s important they freeze through because the next step involves dipping the frozen pastries into melted white chocolate.
Finally, the fun starts. I put red icing in squiggly lines across the tops of the cookies and topped them off with a Reese’s Pieces bite. I was surprised at how real the eyeballs actually appeared and they tested even better than they looked.
The sweet white chocolate and rich peanut butter filling were a great combination — almost like a white chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cup. And they looked appropriately creepy for Halloween, though not gross enough to stop my roommates from wolfing them down.