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Chocolate and peanut butter balls, aka BuckEyes, are easy to make with this wls friendly recipe. 
Last night, I was in the mood to make something in the kitchen... Believe it, or not! Sunday at Tim's family's house, they were talking about buckeyes, you know, the peanut butter balls with chocolate on the outside. This is Tim's favorite holiday dessert. His niece usually brings it to their celebrations.
Tonight while reading some protein boards, peanut butter kept coming up. So I decided to locate an old protein ball recipe (to follow). THEN! Eureka! It hit me... I would make TIM the dessert that he likes, only put a different spin on it... buckeye protein balls!
Mix the following ingredients to make the protein balls:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup dry powdered milk
4 packets of Splenda
1 cup vanilla protein powder
Roll into 18 balls, refrigerate (I wanted to speed up the process, so shoved them into the freezer)
Melt sugar free chocolate (I used Valor SF Dark Chocolate)
Dip the protein balls into the melted SF chocolate
Let cool on wax paper
Don't laugh at my buckeyes! Let me also add, I am NOT good at melting chocolate. I think it must be an art. I ruined the first batch. I have tried microwaving before and it does not work for me. I don't own a double boiler and so the first try with a bowl in the saucepan was a complete failure! I will invest in a double boiler for future success!
UPDATE: Tim said they tasted like buckeyes, but that they were not as smooth of a texture. He liked them. I took a few to my friend at work who is a low carb'er... she asked for the recipe and said she loved them!