Showing posts with label candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candy. Show all posts

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Twelve Days of Christmas

Day 7, Day 8 and Day 9

Cookies, candy, and packaging! Oh my. The last three days have been filled with finishing up the week at school and baking and candy making.  Here are some of the goodies waiting to packaged up in containers to take to our volunteers. 


From the bottom of the picture up there are chocolate crinkle cookies, salted carmel chews, traditional chocolate chip cookies, fool proof fudge, and Grandma Cowan's peanut brittle.  She made it every year that I can remember.  She didn't use a written down recipe, so one year I watched her and wrote down what she did.  Now I make it just about every year.  I panicked for a few minutes this year when I couldn't find my hand written note in my recipe files but a third time through I found it.  Mr. Darling says I should scan it into the computer "just in case" I really do lose it.  It's a good idea, we'll see if I remember to do that.

Well I'm off to finsh tags for the treat containers, only 3 more days. I can't believe it, it has come so quickly this year.

Have a great day and I'll talk to you again soon.


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Yum... lunch time

This is day 21 of my personal creative challenge

I've been working in the kitchen on sweet stuff all day and needed a little something to cut through the sweet.  I made this quick pasta salad with linguini, zucchini, carrots, scallions, avocado and a home-made balsamic vinaigrette, topped off with a sprinkling of over crisped turkey bacon.  It was delish!  I've also been experimenting with truffles.

I thought they would be easy but my filling is not cooperating.  They do taste decadent though.  I'm using cheesecake as the filling and then dip/rolling that in semisweet chocolate.  Two of our favorite flavors in this house.


I'm going to keep working at it.  I wonder if I roll the chessecake ball in something before trying to roll it in the warm chocolate if that would help?  Any suggestions?  Leave me a comment and thanks for stopping by today.  I'll talk to you again soon.