My Best of 2012 list was long and difficult to narrow down. Larry and I had a spirited discussion about what made the cut and what didn’t. At the end, we were left with eleven items that needed to be on our final favorites list. There was a lot of good food last year, though. [...]
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I clearly can’t have these caramels in the house. They’re so good, and I have a major weakness for caramels. These are just the right texture, nice and soft and buttery, with just a hint of salt. They’ve got some sweetened condensed milk in them along with the traditional cream and sugar. There isn’t anything [...]
I love this brittle. I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin seeds, but I like them a lot hulled and toasted (and in my granola). There’s not a lot of steps in making brittle. Make a caramel. Add nuts and/or seeds, and that’s it. This one was pretty much trouble-free for me, considering my issues [...]
What a nice little Easter treat – chocolate covered marshmallow! These candies were super easy to make. A bit of time is required to coat the candy cups, but I didn’t mind it at all. The chocolate coating is a mix of dark and milk chocolates – not tempered. I considered using tempered chocolate but [...]
With my obsession with all things honey, you’d think I’d have made honeycomb candy by now – but this was my first time. I love honeycomb, especially when it’s chocolate coated. This is essentially just cooked sugar (mine is dark – just this side of being burnt) that gets fizzy and bubbly from the addition [...]
Buckeyes are balls of gussied-up peanut butter covered in chocolate, and are a big thing in Ohio, apparently. Larry grew up in Ohio but he didn’t seem to recognize them, although he’s not a huge peanut butter dessert fan anyway. Neither am I, so I expected to just make these and then foist them off [...]
When I have an urge to bake but am short on time, I turn to Abby Dodge’s Desserts 4 Today. These little bites are just flour, powdered sugar and butter with some crushed chocolate-covered toffee bars mixed in. Which I didn’t have, but I did have a bag of Heath Bits’o Brickle Toffee Bits, so [...]
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