Eating like a Buckeye

Buckeye, in food ususally means a combination of chocolate and peanut butter. A local grocery store has Buckeye Cream Sticks in their bakery. In some place Cream Sticks are called Long Johns, but basically it's about 6 inches of rectangular dough (same dough they use to make doughnuts) fried then filled with cream. The Buckeye Cream Stick has peanut butter cream, chocolate icing and peanut butter chips on top. I've only ever ate one, they're supposed to be breakfast food but they are extra rich! Then there's the Buckeye, a peanut butter ball, partly dipped in chocolate just so some peanut butter peaks out the top and the candy resembles a real buckeye. But my favorite is Buckeye Pie. I've had it as is decribed below and I've also had it in a regular pie shell with peanut butter and powdered sugar mixed together until crumbly with no cream cheese and sprinkled over the baked shell then the chocolate pudding goes on top. So for those not from Ohio here's a recipe for......

BUCKEYE PIE
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
2 cups milk
1 large package of chocolate instant pudding
16 oz. cool whip
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
2 chocolate pie crust
Mix peanut butter and cream cheese together and then fold in 1/2 of the cool whip until well blended. Divide between the 2 pie crusts and spread out evenly.
Mix the milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes. Spread the pudding over the peanut butter mix then top with remaining Cool Whip.