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Showing posts with label Candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Candy. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2014
Chocolate Coconut Balls
2 sticks butter-softened
2 cups chopped nuts
4 cups shredded coconut
1 can condensed milk
32 oz. confectioners sugar
Mix together and roll into balls. Refrigerate 1 hour then melt chocolate almond bark and rolls balls in chocolate and set aside. Enjoy!
Oreo Balls
1 1 lb. Package of Oreo cookies
1 8 oz. cream cheese (softened)
1 1 lb. White Almond Bark
In a large bowl combine crushed cookies and cream cheese to form a stiff dough. Roll into balls and refrigerate for 1 hour. Then dip in melted almond bark and set on wax paper until set.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Peppermint Kiss Brownies
Yield: 9-12 brownies
Ingredients
- 6 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 6 ounces unsalted butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 & 1/2 cups light brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. peppermint extract
- 3/4 cup AP flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 10 ounces Hershey's candy cane kisses
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 & 1/4 ounces unsalted butter
- 4 ounces dark chocolate
- 1 & 1/2 tsp. light corn syrup
- 10-15 candy cane kisses, chopped up
Candy Cane Kiss Ganache
Dark Chocolate Glaze
Topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line an 8″ x 8″ pan with parchment paper & spray with non stick spray.
- Melt chocolate & butter together.
- Mix eggs & sugar with whip attachment a few minutes until eggs thicken and get lighter in color.
- Mix in vanilla & peppermint extracts.
- Pour melted chocolate/butter mixture into mixer. Make sure it warm, not hot.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt and mix just to combine.
- Pour batter into pan and bake at 325 degree for 40-45 minutes rotating once halfway through.
- Bring cream up to a scald and pour over kisses.
- Stir together till smooth and set aside.
- When brownies are completely cool, pour ganache on top.
- Refrigerate till set.
- Melt butter and chocolate together.
- Stir in light corn syrup.
- Quickly pour over brownies. I recommend using the glaze a little warmer than room temp.
- Set brownies aside for about 10 minutes while you chop up the remaining candy cane kisses for the top.
- Sprinkle the chopped candy cane kisses on top of the brownies and refrigerate till set. This will take a minimum of 4 hours, but I recommend letting them chill overnight.
- Cut brownies with a clean, hot knife.
Brownies
Candy Cane Kiss Ganache
Chocolate Glaze
Notes
When using the glaze, you want it to be warm, but not super hot.
Letting the brownies chill completely before cutting them will ensure that they cut clean. Most importantly, use a hot, clean knife when you cut them!
You can either get 9 or 12 out of this batch. When I cut 12 I thought they were kind of small, but they are very rich so it wound up being the perfect size.
These will stay for about a week in the fridge, but they have a tendency to disappear very quickly.
Remember these are truffle brownies, meaning they will sink a little in the middle when you take them out of the oven. That's good and leaves a nice space to fill with ganache.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Cranberry Fudge
•2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
•1/4 cup light corn syrup
•1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
•1/4 cup reduced-fat evaporated milk
•1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•1 package (5 ounces) dried cranberries
•1/3 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
•Line a 9-in. square pan with foil. Coat the foil with
cooking spray; set aside.
• In a heavy saucepan, combine chocolate chips and corn
syrup. Cook and stir over low heat until smooth. Remove from the heat. Stir in
the confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla. Beat with a wooden spoon until
thickened and glossy, about 5 minutes. Stir in cranberries and walnuts. Spread
into prepared pan; refrigerate until firm.
• Using foil, lift fudge out of pan; discard foil. Cut
fudge into 1-in. squares. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Yield: 1-1/3 pounds (81 pieces).
Chocolate Cherry Pie Fudge
Ingredients
Duncan Hines
Frosting Creations Cherry Vanilla Flavor Packet
1 container Duncan
Hines Frosting Creations Starter
1 bag white
chocolate chips
1/2 cup maraschino
cherries
1 1/4 cups
chocolate wafer cookies
2 Tablespoons
butter
1/4 cup granulated
sugar
1/4 cup chocolate
of your choice – dark, white, milk – bars or chips are fine
Line the bottom of
an 8×8″ baking pan with foil, spray with non-stick spray.
In a medium size
bowl mix frosting starter and flavor packet. Set aside. Chop cherries into
small pieces, leaving a few aside for the top of the fudge.
In a food
processor add wafer cookies, butter, and sugar – pulse until consistency is a
crumby paste. Pour into prepared pan and press down until flat.
Melt white
chocolate chips over a double boiler or in the microwave, stirring every 15-20
seconds. Stop heating when almost all the way melted, continuing to stir until
it is all the way melted.
Mix together white
chocolate chips, frosting mixture, and cherries – quickly. Pour over the top of
the cookie crust. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Take out of the
pan – should be a solid block, move to a cutting board or clean counter
surface.
Melt chocolate to
drizzle over the top – double boiler or microwave stirring every 15-20 seconds
until almost all the way melted. Continue to stir until all chunks are gone and
it is smooth. (if you need to smooth it out more, add about a tablespoon of
shortening to the chocolate as it is melting, this makes it easier to drizzle).
Top with cherry
halves, drizzle chocolate over the top. {Or wait until you’ve cut the chocolate
and then add cherries and chocolate.}
Cut into pieces or
cut out with a cookie cutter.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Cracker Candy
Ingredients
2 sleeves of round
buttery crackers (broken in half)
Place crackers on a greased aluminum foil lined 15x10 jelly roll pan.
Bring Butter and
brown sugar to a boil in a saucepan (make sure to use a larger saucepan to make
sure it doesn’t boil over), stirring constantly; cook 3 minutes, stirring
often.
Pour mixture over
crackers.
¾ cup butter
1 cup firmly
packed light brown sugar
1 (12 ounce)
package milk chocolate chips
1 cup chopped
pecans
1 (12 ounce)
package white chocolate chips
Place crackers on a greased aluminum foil lined 15x10 jelly roll pan.
Bake @ 350 degrees
for 5 minutes. Turn oven off. Sprinkle crackers with chocolate chips. Let stand
in oven for 3-5 minutes or until chocolate melts. Use spatula to evenly spread
melted chocolate over crackers.
Top with pecans
and white chocolate chips. Cool completely (I put the pan in the freezer for
30-45 minutes) and break candy into pieces. Store in refrigerator.
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