Thursday Night's Dessert Exchange was full of chocolatey goodness and lots of tips from Ann on how to go about making great chocolate candy desserts.
You can do fun things with molds. They have molds for all seasons including some interesting designs...
The newer molds are not even plastic.
Molds are great but you don't have to have molds to make a wonderful dessert. You can coat fudge, brittle, and peanut butter nougat in melted chocolate for a great dessert.
Orson Gigi's is a great place to buy chocolate wafers to melt for dipping chocolate.
Be sure when you melt your chocolate in your microwave that you do it 30 seconds at a time, stirring in between intervals.
We learned from Ann that the streaky swirls in chocolate is caused by the cocoa butter rising to the surface from chocolate that is too hot or cold. You want your chocolate to be just right.
Ann has a separate set of paint brushes she uses just for painting chocolate into molds and onto chocolate.
To keep your finished product nice and shiny wear gloves so that your finger prints don't end up on the chocolate.
Thanks to Ann for all the great tips on making candy and thanks to everyone who brought desserts to share! If you brought a dessert on Thursday and want to share the recipe on this blog, just post it as a comment. If you didn't attend on Thursday but would still like to share a favorite dessert recipe please feel free to post it as a comment. The more the merrier!
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I found the Valentine Hugs on Pinterest and they were so easy to make. You just need square pretzels (I used Snyder's butter snaps), Hugs, and M&M's. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and fill a cookie sheet with pretzels. Place a Hug in the center of each pretzel. Place the cookie sheet in the oven and heat for approx. 8 minutes. Remove sheet from oven and place an M&M in the center of the melted Hug. Let the cookie sheet cool for a few minutes and then put in the fridge to finish cooling.
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