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Peppermint Bark

This was by far the easiest thing to make. Tempering both the dark chocolate and white chocolate went very smoothly and set up perfectly. I was worried that even though the dark chocolate would have set up hard enough after chilling for about 2 hours, that the hot white chocolate would melt the [...]

Chocolate Dipped Espresso and Lemon Truffles

I know I said I was going to do peppermint bark, but I apparently I forgot to take pictures. I’ll have to wrassel some leftovers down and take pictures tomorrow morning. So, instead I bring you chocolate dipped truffles of the espresso and white chocolate lemon varieties.

Both of these were incredibly easy to [...]

Homemade Caramels

I made caramels before, but they were for molded chocolates, which I found very tedious and not worth the effort. These caramels are slightly harder so I could dip them by hand. I decided against using my candy cookbook’s recipe for the caramels and instead used My Kitchen Cafe’s recipe. I’m finding that my [...]