I know the snopesters are famous for their yummy recipes!
Usually at Christmas I make chocolate chip cookies for gifts and/or just to have around the house for the holidays.
I wanted to try my hand at candy this year as well. I was wondering what kind of delicious recipes anyone might have for candies (preferable chocolate-but all are welcome)!
(I utilize allrecipes.com a lot, but I just wanted to hear some other ideas.)
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Mix all of that together with your hands in a large bowl. Form into balls (smaller than a golf ball size) and refridgerate for 3 hours. Melt chocolate bark (with a little parafin) and dip one ball at a time. Store in plastic bag or container when chocolate is set. Enjoy.
I use a fork to dip the ball- I drop, one ball at a time, into the chocolate, then lift it out on top of the fork- like the fork is a... well, forklift. I set mine on cookie sheets covered with foil or wax paper (that way I can move them around instead of taking up counter space waiting for them to set).
ETA: I make these too- not just at Christmas, but my mom makes them just at the holidays.
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I can't find the recipe, but it starts with "standard" peanut butter cookies. The fun part is you make the cookies almost balls, and when you take them out of the oven, press a Hershey's kiss into the center.
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I have a homemade Peanut Brittle Recipe to die for
2 Cups Sugar 1 Cup Light Corn Syrup (Karo) 1/2 Cup Water 2 Cups Raw Peanuts 1 Cup Butter 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
Heat sugar,karo syrup and water to boiling; add butter and heat to 280 on candy thermometer. Then add raw nuts and heat to 305 degrees, stir in soda and pour onto a buttered cookie sheet or two depending how thin you want it let cool and then tap the Brittle with a butter knife to break and enjoy.
I make about 25 batches of this around Christmas it is nice for little gifts and not very expensive and everyone just loves it if you have any questions PM me and I'll be glad to help. Diana
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Since I don't bake or cook very well, these are a little out of the box but I always thought they were cool:
-Chocolate dipped spoons for stirring coffee or making your own hot chocolate with hot milk. You can put marshmellows, peppermint bits, etc. on the spoon before the chocolate hardens
-Chocolate dipped pretzels. You can roll them in everything from peppermint bits to sprinkles to peanuts.
-Snowman soup. Here's the 'recipe':
1 individual pack hot chocolate mix 3 Hershey's chocolate kisses 10-15 mini-marshmallows small candy cane
Put it in a baggie & add this tag:
Snowman Soup
Was told you've been real good this year. Always glad to hear it! With freezing weather drawing near, You'll need to warm the spirit.
So here's a little Snowman Soup Complete with stirring stick. Add hot water, sip it slow. It's sure to do the trick!
Cheesy but cute.
There's also 'Reindeer Food' which is Cheerios mixed with glitter. You sprinkle it on the front lawn so the reindeer can find your house & have something to eat.
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F_F, we do peanutbutter balls too, only instead, we cover them with homemade frosting (mix icing sugar and milk until the consistency of melted chocolate is reached) and then roll them in coconut.
Drooling...
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Coating: - 1 lb. Dark chocolate (best if tempered, or you can use wax)
drain the cherries on a paper towel overnight. Beat the first three fondant ingredients until smooth. Gradually add icing sugar. Turn out onto the counter flatten 1 tsp of mixture and wrap around cherry. If mixture is too sticky add more icing sugar.
Melt chocolate in a small saucepan over hot water, or on low stirring constantly. pour some melted chocolate into a small narrow glass. Place glass in a bowl of warm water. hold cherry stem and dip into chocolate to completely coat. allow access to drip back into the glass.place on waxed paper and let set. Redip bottoms if necessary to seal completely as the fondant will turn to liquid. Let stand at room temperature for 2 days.
As I said, these are a lot of work, but soooo good.
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Mix together and roll into balls. The PB mixture turns into a Reese-cup consistency and taste!! You can use a toothpick to dip them in melted chocolate for Buckeyes.
That's about as easy as recipes get Just make sure you have lots of milk on hand with these suckers!!
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I've made candy boxes for friends the past two years, and plan to do it again this year. Recurring favorites: Peppermint bark: Melt white chocolate. Add crushed peppermint candies. Spread in large flat pan to cool. Break into pieces. Things covered in chocolate: Melt chocolate. Dip things (pretzels, marshmallows, dried fruits, etc). Cool. Chocolate Peanut-Butter Fudge: Melt together one jar of peanut butter and one bag of chocolate chips. Stir in one can sweetened condensed milk. Spread in large flat pan to cool. The first time I made Buckeyes, but they didn't turn out so well. Last year I added chocolate-mint squares, but I don't remember the recipe off the top of my head. This year I'm thinking of adding something that's not chocolate.
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I'm really thinking of making the chocolate covered pretzels for one (or two) of our office parties. It will be pretty easy and who doesn't like chocolate?
I've seen a few recipes for truffles that I might want to make as well.
I was interested in making the bark; but thinking maybe instead of peppermint, it could be regular (milk or dark) chocolate with --I don't know what-- inside and drizzle white chocolate?
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quote:Originally posted by MissE: I was interested in making the bark; but thinking maybe instead of peppermint, it could be regular (milk or dark) chocolate with --I don't know what-- inside and drizzle white chocolate?
You could do nuts of some sort, or, I dunno, rice crispies might be good? Any little crunchy item, I guess.
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We make Christmas Tree bark by making a basic toffee, spreading it super-thinly on a tray and coveing it with dark and milk chocolate ["combed" with a fork to get the texture of bark.]
Depending on whether we're making it for kids or adutls, we sprinkle on any or all of sliced dried pineapple or ginger, crumbled candycanes, macadamia nuts, crumbled gingerbread, glace cherries, sliced sugar jubes, ...pretty much whatever you think will be yummy, with a strong preference for things that are red, white/cream or green :~D
This year we're going to try our hand at making a gingerbread cottage...eek.
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I play KOL, and just logged in to see their Christmas candy recipes. I am SOOO going to make the gingerbread...
gingerbread massacre This is a big plate full of gingerbread men who have been hacked, slashed, and broken into pieces. It's all topped with bright-red frosting "blood" and sugary "bones!" Looks like that whole "you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" taunt was a little premature.
ecto-nog What could possibly make eggnog any tastier? Why, mixing it with a few ounces of fresh ectoplasm, of course! The glass of ecto-nog glows a bright, festive green, and occasionally levitates off the table a little.
hot toady (75 Meat) This is a lovely mix of honey, tea, lemon, brandy, and frog's breath. Though nothing's more suspicious than frog's breath, this actually smells pretty tasty.
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-Ample quantities of milk chocolate disks designed for melting.
-A smaller quantity of green and red chocolate disks for melting
-Chocolate-filled wafers
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-Melt milk chocolate and dip wafers in it. Allow chocolate to harden around wafers.
-Melt green and red chocolate. Drizzle over wafers in a festive pattern of holiday colours.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug4.7: I can't find the recipe, but it starts with "standard" peanut butter cookies. The fun part is you make the cookies almost balls, and when you take them out of the oven, press a Hershey's kiss into the center.
We called these Black-Eyed Susans when I was growing up. Still one of my favorites.
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quote:Originally posted by Doug4.7: I can't find the recipe, but it starts with "standard" peanut butter cookies. The fun part is you make the cookies almost balls, and when you take them out of the oven, press a Hershey's kiss into the center.
We called these Black-Eyed Susans when I was growing up. Still one of my favorites.
A variation that my mom did was use a mini muffin tin, put the peanut butter dough in that, and then press a Reese cup into the center. Yum!!
...what? No, I hate peanut butter!
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quote:Originally posted by MissE: I was interested in making the bark; but thinking maybe instead of peppermint, it could be regular (milk or dark) chocolate with --I don't know what-- inside and drizzle white chocolate?
You could do nuts of some sort, or, I dunno, rice crispies might be good? Any little crunchy item, I guess.
What about marshmallow inside? Mmmmmm...
As for those cookies, I call them "Peanut Butter Blossoms" and you guys are leaving out the most important step! You roll each ball of dough in sugar before baking.
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You could make Cinder Toffee . Do you have Crunchies in the US? It's what's inside a Crunchie and it's great fun to make. You can coat it in chocolate, bash it to bits ans sprinkle it over ice cream and I bet it would work in peppermint bark instead of the peppermint.
Don't worry about the vinegar-you don't taste it, it just helps the bicarb foam up.
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