Peanut Butter Eyeball Truffles
As my son gets older, I am starting to realize that I’m outnumbered.
I live with two boys.
TWO BOYS.
And they are gross.
Also, they don’t get me. At all.
I’m always all making sure we have snuggly throw pillows and scented oil to make the house smell good. And for reals, I don’t think they even notice. I mean, I’ve been telling myself that I do all this stuff for THEM, so that they have a nice cozy house to live in full of comfy pillows and smelly good things, but I’m coming to the conclusion that I’m doing all this extra work just for myself.
Because all they want to do is talk about knives and spiders and eat beef jerky.
The other day we had tacos for dinner, and I usually spoon the sour cream into a cute fancy bowl to set on the table. Because really, who just sets the whole sour cream carton on the table at dinnertime? (Cave people, that’s who. Or normal people who DON’T live with only boys, therefor constantly feeling the need to overcompensate with fancy sour cream bowls) But the boys didn’t even understand that I was about to get the fancy bowl, so they just started spooning it right out of the plastic jug.
It’s called AMBIANCE, BOYS.
AM-BI-ANCE.
So what I’m getting at here is, I know these eyeball treats are gross. It’s not my fault, okay? I’ve resigned to the fact that I live with boys, boys are gross, and they like stuff with blood and guts in it.
But please know that deep in my heart, I’m crying out for overpriced candles and fancy tea sets and all the things that us women KNOW are necessary in life.
(Also, I don’t care what anyone says, expensive candles really do smell better. I don’t know why, they just DO)
Want to know how to make these yourself, so you can be all gross and eyeballey? Easy Peasy.
(click here for printable recipe)
INGREDIENTS
1 package (16 oz) Nutter Butter cookies
1/2 block (4 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
Red Fruit Gushers (30 total, which should be 3 snack packs)
White chocolate almond bark (I used Candiquik and really liked it a lot)
About 30 Gummi Lifesavers
About 30 mini M&Ms
Red food marker
Crush cookies into fine crumbs. Combine cookies, cream cheese, and peanut butter until well combined. Form the mixture into balls around each Fruit Gusher fruit snack and place on a wax paper-lined baking sheet. Let truffles chill for about 30 minutes.
Melt candy coating according to package directions. Coat truffles in the candy and place back on the wax paper until set. Using the melted candy, apply Gummi Saver and M&M “eyes” and draw veins with the red food marker.
You can even put a few in a jar to give as a spooky gift. I added a few plastic spiders– you can buy a huge package of cheap spider rings at Walmart for a couple of bucks.
I hope you and your gross little ones love them.
Have a fabulous day!!
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Perfect and really gross. I couldn’t have come up with this…LOL! I had a feeling it had something to do with eyeballs when you posted on facebook about coming up with something gross. Good job on the grossness factor! :) Anything with PB is good too. :)
I am so making these this year!! I started making cake bites last year(which has now become a side business) and was wndering what I could put inside. LOVE this!!
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These are awesome!
Love Love Love Love Love!!!! I will SO be making these for *my* gross little boy’s annual halloween party!! TY and I *get* the smell goods and cushy pillows. Even though mine smell like beef jerkey and boy! lol
Great spooky treat! Love the effect the red fruit gushers give the eyeballs… nice touch!
I feel your pain, I live in a house with 3 boys!! It’s all gross all the time up in here! We do have 2 girl dogs, but they are gross 2. Of COURSE the expensive candles smell better!!
My four year old son just walked up behind me and said in the most serious voice “MOM WHAT IS THAT?” I told him it was candy. His jaw hit the floor, ofcourse I am thinking its because it looks like eyeball and its kinda grody looking, then he puts his hand on my shoulder and says “You have GOT to learn to make those Mom.” love this eye-dea! lol!! plus my un-natural love for gushers makes this a winner in my house!
Eye-dea. You totally beat me to that. Love it!!
These are AWESOME. I am going to do these for Halloween! I have twin 7 year old boys and they will LOVE them. Thanks for coming up with such “gross” treats. Personally, I think Yankee Candles smell the best. A close second is Home Interiors but they are a pain to get. Thanks for sharing!
This is the BEST idea – I’m always looking for new ways to make holiday-appropriate goodies and this is the first gross-out eyeball candy I’ve come across and liked so much. Thank you for sharing your ideas and recipes – very inspiring! =D
These are great! I have 3 boys and I live in grossville over here in this house! They would love these and using the red marker looks so much better than other eye ball treats I have seen..great job!
Thank you, Jill!! :)
I just posted this on my Pintrest. LOVE it!!!!!
Too disgusting! Love it!! The gushers in the middle totally makes this treat!
I am CRYING laughing over here. CRYING! I live with 2 boys, too….and I’m *all* about the sour cream bowl. Here’s the discussion I’ve been having with kiddo at the table lately, “NO, pancakes are not something you pick up and eat like a hamburger.”
And, these eyeballs are creepy and fantastic!!!
{And why *do* expensive candles smell so much better?}
oh pancakes and little boys. my 2 year old did his first “see food” the other morning while we were all sitting down having pancakes. dad laughed and he kept doing it. *sigh*
I am right there with you. I live with three boys!! Luckily the two smallest ones are 2 years and 6 months, so I have a decent amount of leverage for the moment. I have a feeling my 2 year old will freak when he see the gooey Gushers center (awesome idea!!)
Now… go take a bubble bath, light every smell good candle that goes together, and drink some pink champagne in the fanciest glass you can find. That’ll teach ‘em. Hehe
Trust me, I feel ya sister. Boys are gross and smelly and weird and like to watch naturey shows on tv, not access hollywood.
We need to live closer :(
Love them I will be making these this year !!
HAHAHAHA, I do have a girl, but it makes no difference! The transformers just attack Strawberry Shortcake and I live with the meanest diva ever. So, I am truly alone. I’m pretty sure my kiddos would love these eyeballs. no judgement from this house!
such a great idea for halloween
these are great!!!! honestly, i think i need about 30 halloween class parties with all the wonderful ideas out there (and this and your witches hat cupcakes are now at the top of my list!)! i really think halloween should be celebrated more than once a year so i can get all of these goodies in! thank you for sharing!!!!
These are hilarious. I love them.
Also I totally get the living with boys thing! I grew up with a dad and a brother and for a while my uncle lived with us too. The house was always gross. But on the bright side I can tell you anything you want about baseball and football.
This post is hillarious, and those eye balls are gross, in a wonderfully gross kind of way! =)
Yankee candles are wayyyy better than those “Mainstays” wal mart brand. Partly because yankee candles always have amazing pictures. Yes, I judge books by covers as well.
Cave person? I thought it was just being lazy!
signed,
Your friend, the lazy cave person
It’s okay. You’re a cave person, I have the appetite of a five year old and like to create unnecessary dirty dishes. No one wins here.
I live with THREE smelly boys. I just plunk the sour cream tub on the table. Fewer dishes.
Obviously since the boys do not appreciate the sour cream bowl, this will be my new method. I just wanted to try to live like a fancy person. I have dreams, you know?
I think they are awesome, but I am one of those people that slaps the sour cream container on the table with a spoon ;) I’m the only one who ever eats it though so that makes it ok, right?
I LOVE these!!! I really want to make them…do you know what I could use in place of peanut butter cookies?
Oreos..and use a whole block of cream cheese instead of peanut butter. Or use Golden Oreos.
Thanks!
These will be perfect for the children’s halloween party I am in charge of planning!
I love this idea. And, your amazingly funny sense of humor just brightens my day!
OOH my gosh! Those red gusher candy centers are genius! GENIUS, I say.
i hear ya, i have 3 boys (if you include the 40+ year old kid) and they love guns, ninjas, and fart jokes (come on!)….i do have one girlie girl so i’m hoping she likes tea parties soon–but i am so not going to the american doll store to get a doll a haircut or ears pierced….(that’s almost as bad as listening to 40 fart jokes in a row, and costs more)…oh and great eye balls!
i just showed this link to my boyfriend. he lives in canada so they’re thanksgiving is in october. guess what he wants me to make his family for thanksgiving? yeah, i get the whole gross boy thing and i dont even live with him yet!
Men. They will never understand the importance of snuggly and nice-smelling things!
These are so awesome!! And even though I love all things pink and sparkly, I think these are pretty cool!
soooo friggin neat…the add in of the spiders to the JAR Is so cool…so so so so so so so cool.
Ok, I’m gonna gross out my gal pals with these at our next get together..LOVE EM!
Thanks again for another awesome recipe!
I am totally grossed out, and love it. You amaze me!
Totally love this!
Awesome looking and they sound so yummy, trying to think of some excuse to make these so I can eat them (my kids are grown) :(
In remembrance of the times when your kids where home! :) Seems like a good idea to me.
I am in a house of four other males. FOUR. I do have a female dog & cat though… BUT everyone assumes my dog is a boy, so? Anyways, I’m kinda obsessed with your blog lately. You really crack me up. Plus you aren’t so fancy (and I mean that in a good way) that I will never actually make your recipes. I wish I had a creative brain…instead I’ll continue to use your ideas. :)
These are great! Absolutely love them. I am going to attempt to make them for my pastry class. :) Thank you for all the wonderful things you come up with. :)
Ok so first of all Could you stop outdoing us all?!! I am in love with your blog and just can’t keep up. I have decided that I need to find someone to fund my baking obsession because my Husband is tired of paying for it. However my 3 GIRLS love it.. and my 6 Year old saw this picture and she said “AWESOME, You should make these mom!” She is a girl deep down in there, but loves the gross things in life…Ahhh..Anyways thank you as always for sharing! We all love you and your creative skillz.
You rock! When you posted on FB that you were questioning yourself because of the project grossness, I couldn’t WAIT to see what you had planned. And the red gusher is BRILLIANT. When I grow up I want to be just like you :)
I have two boys as well… and yes, life is gross (especially now when they are late teens). Love these eyeballs!
Gross and creepy never looked so delicious! Your eyeball jar is fantastic too!
P.S. Just a tip for the sour cream container dilemma. Transfer the contents from your next new container to a little pyrex glass bowl with a lid and store in the fridge until you need it. If you’re like our household, the sour cream never lasts long enough to worry about the expiry date but if need be, you can write the expiry date on the bottom of the bowl. May not be a *fancy* serving bowl but it is better than the plastic one being on the table and driving you nuts :)
The other day I actually said, “Why is there HAM in the CD player?!” The I remembered I live in a house full of boys. Siiiiigh. I really need to go buy something pink. By the way- the gushers kill me! So awesome!
These are awesome!!! I’m a mom to one (and only one!!) five month old little boy and definitely feel like I will be outnumbered. My hubby does not understand my obsession with Orleans candles and he thinks I’m crazy for insisting we use paper napkins at the table and not paper towels. I’d use linen to be fancy but that would require ironing… I’m more of a lazy fancy ;)
Best. Blog. Ever. I’m off to tweet this right now, because anyone with 2 boys or who has ever lit a candle in their life ever needs to read this.
You are just too sweet. Thank you!! :)
These are AWESOME! Sorry you have to live with boys, I do as well and it never gets better. They just get “grosser” if it is possible! Hang tough!
I love this!!! Thank you sooo much for sharing your creativity with the rest of us.
I have a grandson (and a grand daughter) who will love this!!
So so so fun! Great Halloween treat!
Your idea is absolutely awesome…my grand-kids will LOVE them!! Hmmm…and I didn’t know you were supposed to put sour cream in a cutesy bowl…I always set the container on the table!! lol =)
I love this idea! And I know what you mean, I live with three boys!
haha! Nasty!! I’m sure my boys would love it too! I gave up on fancy dishes for sour cream and things of that nature because I’M the one who will be doing the dishes…and that gets old…fast…and you’re right-they don’t get it or appreciate it… damn men. ;)
Brilliant! I am DEFINITELY having a go at these for Hallowe’en. :D I’m British, so I’m going to have to improvise with ingredients I can get over here, which makes it even more fun.
Also, I’m a boy. A twenty-eight-year-old one. Girls are weird. :P
All boys here! Even the animals. The pretty smelling house? I try that with fancy expensive candles. The first thing my husband does when he comes home is blow it out. He’s convinced our cat will jump up there, light his tail on fire, and become a streaking flame ball and catch the whole house on fire. Nevermind the cat has never jumped on the counters. EVER. So my house smells like boys and dogs. I totally get you. And I wish I didn’t.
I have two girls and I GET IT too! No guarantee that they will love girlie stuff. They don’t! My girls will love this (and they’re 16 and 18 now). It is better now than when they were younger, but I don’t know where I went wrong??? LOL
I’m new to your blog, Kristan. You’re so cool! You have reawakened my inner baker!
My kids are 19 and 16 so no kid class parties here. However my husband is our resident King of Holidays so I will be making these anyhoo. My husband will love them, and the teens will act like it is stupid, but will secretly be excited about the hub bub of a holiday. (I’ve seen this behaviour from them before…)
P.S. I am answering the door for trick or treaters in a full on floor length royal blue 1986 beaded and sequined number I wore to the CMA Awards once. Does anybody know where I can get a Bride of Frankenstein Wig??
P.P.S. I and a couple previous generations of my family would have a simoultaneous heart attached if the milk jug, juice carton or sour cream container was placed on the table at mealtime….
I love these! I’d be thrilled if you’d link up to my Wickedly Creative Halloween Ideas Party.
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I could NEVER eat these, I’m easily grossed out! (my mum once made bread eyeballs and plopped them in my soup when I was little ~ “screamed the house down” is an understatement) lol
I do sympathise with you, I have 2 boys and a big man-child so I know exactly what you are talking about.
p.s They would LOVE these :-)
I too live with all boys. I can say that I’ve learned a lot about things I never would have been exposed to, like cars, farts, sports, belches, you get the picture…. But now that they are teens, the best is when they have friends over & forget I’m in the next room….the conversations are hilarious & gives me new insight into the workings of the male mind!
Love them! & My 2 boys will think they are AWESOME!! :)
first let me just say that I feel you pain….my daughter moved out, so now it’s just me and the boys.
Second let me say “Gushers?” genius! Love it, perfect for this, will have to make these for my boys, might even send some to my daughter, because she love creepy halloween stuff too =)
I can totally relate! I live with 3 stinky boys! 5 if you include my husband and the dog! These are so cool! Love ‘em! Thanks for sharing!
Just shared these on our Fun Finds Friday…..love them!
these look awesome! can the truffle parts be frozen for a long time before dipping in the white chocolate?
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Love this! I am going to try and make them for my son’s Halloween/bday party. Do you think melted white chocolate chips or the Wilton Candy melts will work with these? Thanks !
These are just the grossest thing ever! Can’t wait to make them for my kids! : )
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TOO funny!!!! My son and husband are the same way and since I’m the only one who eats sour cream ….I have to admit I scoop out of plastic tub. lol. Totally making these for Halloween!!!
OMG where were these last week when I was deciding on what to make!!! I freakin love these!!
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