Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) to all! And to all a good–and chocolately night! Let’s end my truffle mini-series with a wrap-up, so you (and I) can find all these delicious yummies next year~! I’ve included the recipe card for molded candy shop truffles at the bottom for easy access, and am including links to all the truffles I’ve shared this year! Plus affiliate links to the candies and molds I use in case you’re interested in those! matcha white chocolate truffles shape: flowers (affiliate link), topped with green white chocolate filling: green tea ganache, recipe found at the link above orange truffles…
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Continue ReadingButtery soft caramels wrapped in chocolate! Literally, what more could you want out of life? I actually won’t be sharing my caramel recipe today–it’s a long recipe that comes out only for special occasions! Plus you need some specialized equipment, namely a candy thermometer. But fear not! If you’re looking to make these at home, then kraft caramels split into two the long way work perfectly! Or you can always try one of those microwave caramels I pin to my Recipes – Candy board on Pinterest (link to my pinterest). I won’t link any directly here, because I haven’t tried them, and…
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I pretty much only make “candies” for holidays. Typically they take a lot of work, and specialized equipment. I’ve slowly been building up my arsenal, and I actually just broke out these silicone molds for the first time! I got them from the annual secret santa last year with my high school friends. I forgot I had them until I was going through the pantry, and so obviously I had to find some yummies to try out! Plus I had Trader Joe’s dulche de leche (affiliate link) from the dulche de leche cheesecake I shared with you, and I wanted to use it another way.…
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I think that if push comes to shove, these are my favorite truffles. I’ve always been a chocolate + raspberry fan, and besides, who doesn’t need a little liquor in their chocolate? It’s not like the name of this blog says anything about that. Noooooo. If you’re looking for a truffle recipe without coating, this is the one for you! You can also make matcha (green tea) white chocolate truffles, but I feel like this one is a little more universal in flavor palate. Read: not everyone knows about or is a huge fan of green tea. Dust these babies…
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Orange orange orange! This was one of the first recipes that made me think I could make “fancy” truffles, and by that I mean coated truffles as opposed to the more homemade style that’s a firm ganache rolled in cocoa powder or powdered sugar. It’s the zest that really makes these orange-y! And they look adorable with some candied orange peel as garnish. If you’re in a pinch and don’t have another orange to zest, or used the rest of your peel to make those candied orange peels, then you can zest the boiled rind. It’s just a little harder…
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Happy Thanksgiving! We all know Thanksgiving and the holidays in general can be crazy stressful. So this no bake éclair cake is a perfect way to contribute a delicious dessert without adding to your stress! Plus, I like that the name “no bake éclair cake” rhymes. What’s not to love about a no bake cake? Especially when it’s got that éclair flair! I’m on a rhyming roll. This éclair cake recipe is perfect to keep on the backburner for last minute guests too. The only ingredient that isn’t shelf-stable is the cool-whip or whipped cream, but if you’ve got the…
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This is part two of the Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant review, focusing on the winery! Read part one here. There was just too much to throw into one post so I wanted to separate out the two to do them each justice. When you first walk into the Ashburn, VA location, you walk into the winery. There’s some cute novelty wine items in the front, including some entertaining wine pourers featuring a variety of animals, and also some zombies. All of the stoppers pour from the subjects mouths are are quite festive. They use their pourers at the bar,…
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This jazz festival event is apparently annual at Lake Anne out in Reston, VA, though this is the first time I’ve gone. We went as part of our awesome labor day weekend, the same one that brought you posts on Reese’s peanut butter bars, and MD Renaissance Festival. It was a crazy weekend packed full of everything: breweries, a wine tasting, the jazz festival, an escape room, dinner at a hot pot restaurant, the renaissance fair, and a ton of board games! The reason we even went out to Lake Anne was because I had heard of a chocolate and wine…
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Happy post-labor day weekend! This past weekend was filled with so much stuff, I’ll be writing about it for weeks! Here’s a taste: brewery, wine tasting, jazz festival, escape room, hot pot restaurant, renaissance fair, and a ton of board games! Plus my birthday is coming up this week, so you’d better keep checking back for posts if you wanna hear all the details. This recipe I made for my sister’s boyfriend R since he just about loooooooves peanut butter. Also chocolate + peanut butter, but I don’t think he’s discriminatory. So I always pin all these peanut butter recipes…
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So for this tart, because it was New Year’s Eve, I cracked out the cute confetti sprinkles! I think it ended up pretty cute. One of the best things about this recipe is that you can top it with anything. The original recipe, adapted from Ella’s Home Cooking Adventure No-bake Strawberry Chocolate Tart recipe, uses strawberries and chopped nuts. I’ve used caramel pieces as topping before, but you could use sprinkles, or any kind of fruit, candied orange peels, chocolate, maraschino cherries, cookie crumbles, crushed nuts…all sorts of goodness. I used raspberries on this one because I wanted something a little different…
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So here comes the wonderful-ness of cake batter and chocolate. Seriously, who needs an oven? Basically this is cake batter cookie dough wrapped in the sweet shell of chocolate. I made these truffles for a co-worker’s birthday. He really wanted me to make this awesome birthday cake recipe from momofuku’s milkbar, however, since this is the week before Christmas, there was no way I was going to slave over that recipe on the busiest week I’ve had in a while (which includes the ones around Thanksgiving that I whined about in my last post. <3). I’ve been up late every…
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These are yum and fun to pull out! I found that the recipe I used (see below) was actually a bit sweet, and judging by my taste-test of the batter, I think the cookies lost some of their cake-batter-ness with the addition of the sugars. No, I didn’t eat 4 cookies worth of dough … >.>. Shhhhh. Next time I think I’ll try leaving out the sugar. Or maybe make a full batch leaving all sugar out of one half, and adding only brown sugar to the other half. Will have to do some experimenting. I know all my friends…
