Monthly Archives: December 2009

Snowman Brownie pops

I saw these in a Williams Sonoma catalog and HAD to make some of my own. Wilton makes a brownie pop mold and I just used some of those regular old candy melts you can get  at Michaels to coat them. In the “next time I make these” files, I will use a regular old [...]

Balls

They aren’t much to look at are they? Last night I once again tackled the epic task of tempering chocolate and once again I was unsure if I was successful. I just don’t know if I did it right. I am just going to have to spend some real time mastering the technique instead of [...]

Note to Self Friday

Yay! Another Note to Self! It never ceases to amaze me the advice people give. People are so funny and I totally love it! Credit for this bon mot goes to @mikeperalta.

Last minute gifts

Tomorrow night I have a little party with the gals at work, and I had to come up with a gift. I didn’t really want to buy anything so I dug through my stash of fabric and I found a little bit of embroidery I had done a while back (and had forgotten) and thought [...]

Thai peanut brittle

Oh, I love it when my wild hairs actually turn out successful. I talked about making candy for the holidays a while back and mentioned being inspired by the nut brittles made by Morning Glory Confections.  I have persnonally never made peanut brittle so there was a lot of research and a couple of phone [...]