Bake Like a Buckeye

When it comes to the list of Ohio-heritage recipes, Buckeyes are near the top - especially in football season. These peanut butter bites are dipped most of the way into chocolate to resemble the seeds of buckeye trees, which in turn resemble the eyes of deer or bucks. Hence buck-eyes.  I have eaten buckeyes everywhere from wedding receptions, to  chocolate shops , to graduation parties, to my grandma's kitchen. You can find them in grocery stores, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, and at bake-sales in Ohio. They are most common during football season, but never more so than on the Saturday of the legendary Ohio State / Michigan game. Ohio vernacular lesson: 'Buckeye' ubiquitously means the combination of peanut butter and chocolate here in the Midwest. Buckeye ice cream, for example, means there will be chocolate and peanut butter in the ice cream...and maybe mini buckeyes as well. A  controversial book  on the history of buckeye candy (written by a former Michigan football