Oh, Christmas! I get to bake and bake and bake and then bake some more! It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! 🙂 These couldn’t be any easier to make and look how cute they are! The original recipe has them dipped in baking chocolate but I had a bag of red … Continue reading
This is a fun and easy idea that I found on the Wilton website, placecards made out of candy! They are bigger than they look, almost the size of a regular candy bar. ingredients: white candy melts (I didn’t do any white ones, just orange and cocoa) orange candy melts dark cocoa candy melts (I … Continue reading
A cake for our friends, the Whites. I found the cake recipe on a website called http://www.cdkitchen.com and the glaze recipe on another website called http://www.ezinearticles.com. Smells heavenly! The cake is another way to use some leftover Halloween candy. I used Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, both the chocolate and the white kind, in the cake … Continue reading
Here is my Halloween treat for this year – pretzels with fingernails! I wanted to make these last year but waited too long to buy the mold, they were sold out when I went to buy it so this year I bought it early at Michaels along with a bag of orange candy melts and … Continue reading
I made this cake for dessert for the fam and all the nieces and nephews visiting. The recipe comes from the October 21, 2011 issue of “All You” magazine. It would be a great way to use up some leftover Halloween candy in a couple of weeks! cake: 3 1/2 cups flour 1 tablespoon baking … Continue reading
All the kids in my Sunday School class graduated from high school on Thursday and I wanted to give them all something so Courtney and I (but mostly Courtney) made them these soda pop candy bouquets to congratulate them. The idea came from the little “Candy Bouquets” book that I got recently. Their idea started … Continue reading
I got this cute little book the other day from http://www.paperbackswap.com called “Candy Bouquets Create Your Own Gifts and Centerpieces” and this is the first creation that Courtney and I made from that book (more are soon to follow I’m sure). The book is full of cute little ideas for candy centered gifts for all … Continue reading
(brand new) Since I started as a Dove Chocolate Discoveries Chocolatier, I’ve acquired some candy making equipment that I’ve been dying to try out and so I decided that today was the day! So here is a crash course in making molded chocolates with a tempering unit and transfer sheets. I have two magnetic molds, … Continue reading
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