Every year since I can remember me and my huge extended family get together and make chocolates. I love this tradition! I also love to brag to everyone about how good our candy is! Since my gammy died we have still tried to carry on her tradition of candy making! This year however, no one wanted to make candy. So I called my mom and begged her to make candy with me this year. After much begging she caved in. We invited my sisters, kelli and natalie and jessica to come help us. (We missed you jessica!!)
The first time we got together was the saturday after Thanksgiving. We made a whole lot of fondant that we are using as fudge!! We made really yummy fudge! (sorry no pictures of this get together! I forgot my camera) We made mint, vanilla cashew, and orange cream!(which was orange with vanilla on top!)
The second time we got together it was just me and my mom. We made nut rolls! I have never made these before so it was really fun to learn!!
This is me stirring the carmel to go on the vanilla fondant!
This is me putting nuts on the carmel to make one complete nutroll! Yummy!!!
This is a bunch of the nutrolls!
This was a very tasty treat! We took the leftover fondant and the leftover carmel and put them in a container together and then ate it all up! It was Soooooo good! I'm wondering why we ruin that by putting nuts on it!!!The third time we all got together, we dipped the chocolates! I have only done this once before (last year) and I only did like 10 chocolates last year. So I was so excited when no one else wanted to dip this year, and I got to do it all my self!!!
This is me "bottoming" the chocolates
Just another picture of me!
This is me dipping!!! The first few looked really funny! but I think they looked edible by the end of the night!
More dipping!
Below are the finished products that I dipped!!
Thank you to my mom and my sisters for helping me make chocolates and fudge this year!! I had a lot of fun!
7 comments:
So when do I get some? :o)
I Love Chocolate's thanks for making make them wtih you!
The ugly looking mess in the little pan, really was the best tasting thing ever. I've got to figure out how to mass produce it.
Thanks for continuing the tradition and inviting me to come along. You really did a great job dipping considering how little practice you had!!
i'm glad you did it... it's our first year without and i am so sad about it...
Good job dipping!! They look good!!
I remember eating those chocolates when I was little! We loved it when you guys would give us some! They look tasty. I guess we'll have to get together and trade our cooking skills!
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