What Do Buckeyes Taste Like? But that was before I came across buckeyes. Sweet, salty, crumbly-yet-smooth peanut butter balls dipped in dark chocolate, buckeyes are the retro no-bake confections that taste like peanut butter cups and look like seminude chocolate truffles. Can you eat a buckeye? Although the nuts of the buckeye tree (Aesculus glabra)
Are Buckeyes The Same As Chestnuts? Are Buckeyes the same as chestnuts? Buckeyes and horse chestnuts belong to the same tree family and are unrelated to true chestnuts. They bear similarities in fruit, but horse chestnuts carry larger seeds. The nuts of both buckeyes and horse chestnuts appear shiny and attractive, yet both are highly
Can You Eat Buckeyes? Can you eat Buckeyes? They can be collected in late summer after they turn a leathery tan color and begin to split open exposing the three large black seeds. Seeds are removed by peeling the capsule apart. Seeds resemble edible chestnuts, but Ohio buckeye fruits are not edible and can be