My Big Fat Bar of chocolate -- part 1

This is Lori Fiechter saying Happy Black Friday and I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving! I stayed away from bargain hunters today myself. I did shop a little online, went on the treadmill with my Paperwhite Kindle, then practiced phrases from audio fairy tales in German (saying over and over again “großer böser Wolf” …because it amuses me.)

Finally, I decided it was time to make another video. I hauled in my 10 pound bar of dark chocolate from the refrigerator in the shed to make a batch of buckeyes. Derek's idea. I don't like making buckeyes--all that melted chocolate and peanut butter is a mess to wash up! The bowls are still sitting in the kitchen sink. I'll have to deal with them eventually.

The bar of Blommer says "dark chocolate", but it's not as dark as I prefer. I’m guessing it is around 60% chocolate. If I could find a 10 pound bar of say 75% chocolate (and the price was right) I’d buy it but this price was really, really right at $1.79 per pound. And it's not that fake melting wafer stuff, either!

Off topic, I now bait my mouse traps with a small chunk of chocolate and it works great. I used to use cheese, then peanut butter, but I’ve switched to chocolate. Why? Well, I didn’t read about it on the Internet. Nope. I had to buy that 10 pound bar of chocolate because a mouse made its way from under the kitchen sink to my chocolate drawer and ate through the plastic on my 2 pound bar of chocolate. I locked up all my chocolate chips and chocolate chunks and put the only available chocolate in the mousetrap. I caught three field mice that way.
Now, the recipe for the peanut butter mixture for buckeyes:
Beat in a mixer:
1 1/8 c. creamy peanut butter (I used Jif)
¼ c. cold butter
then add:
1 ½ c. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
¾-1 ½ cups of Rice Krispies
Line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Shape mixture into balls and dip in melted chocolate. That’s it!