You pour the hot caramel between metal bars to get the rectangle shape. We all wanted our own so we could make them at home and have convinced Dan's cousin to make us all some. Once they cool down a little you cut them with a very sharp knife and put in the sucker stick.
Dan made butter rum centers for us to take to SLC and dip and roll in chopped almonds. We call them Pollyanna's, but I don't know why. They are yummy!
After we did ours we helped everyone else. Some of the centers people made were snickers, peppermint truffle, hazelnut truffle, and peanut butter truffle. They were all SO good.
This past Sunday and Monday nights Dan and I finished our chocolate dipping. We made vanilla bean centers dipped in milk chocolate and rolled in coconut as well as peppermint centers dipped in dark chocolate and rolled in chocolate wafer cookies (these are my new favorite!).
We made them kind of small this year so we have about 500 chocolates to package up. Hopefully you have all been good this year because I need to get these OUT OF MY REACH!
3 comments:
The holidays would not be complete without homemade chocolates to share. We love doing this. The peppermint ones are ALMOST as good as the pollyanna's. I could down a box of those rum flavored ones in one sitting. Nothing beats homemade candy...! I'm excited to see Holly's label for them this year.
If only I were in Seattle...then I could sweet-talk (no pun intended, really) you into a box...then I could, like Polyanna, play "The Glad Game" and have plenty of things to be glad about.
I miss you, my Greenwood Foodie Friends. They just don't make 'em the same here as they do in Seattle!
I'm pretty sure I gained five pounds just reading this. Yum!
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