Halloween Butterfinger Eyes

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 1/8 ounces butterfinger bar, finely chopped
• 12 ounces chocolate or 12 ounces vanilla candy coating
• 40 m&m's plain chocolate candy
• red food coloring or decorating gel
• black food coloring or decorating gel

Recipe

• 1 in a mixing bowl stir together peanut butter and butter until creamy.
• 2 gradually add powdered sugar, stirring until combined.
• 3 stir in butterfinger candy.
• 4 shape into 1-inch balls; place on waxed paper.
• 5 freeze about 45 minutes.
• 6 melt chocolate in a double boiler or get a med sauce pan filled 1/4 of the way with water and heat until simmering and place a large glass or stainless steel bowl over top and turn heat off -if water is boiling it will scorch chocolate.
• 7 add chocolate to bowl, stir constantly until melted and smooth, if you want the coating thinner add a tbs shortening until desired thickness is reached.
• 8 dip balls, one at a time, into coating. let excess coating drip off
• 9 place on waxed paper, immediately press an m&m onto center of each peanut butter ball (you can also wait to put m&m's on until after set and just use a dot of your piped colored chocolate to adhere)
• 10 refrigerate until coating is firm.
• 11 using leftover chocolate add red food coloring until desired color is reached (you may have to reheat) and place in a ziploc or pastry bag,cut a corner very small, pipe squiggly lines on eyes to make them look blood shot or use red decorating gel.
• 12 add a dot of black gel or black food colored coating to the center of m&m pieces for pupils.