candy making

Coconut Thumbprints with Chocolate Caramel

Those Francois Payard Chocolate caramels were wonderful!  However, one can only eat so many and I do mean ONE since Ted doesn’t eat caramel.  I can’t leave the chewy, sweet, creamy confection alone so I have to try to hide it from myself. Luckily, I came across a recipe in Martha Stewart Living Magazine for Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Salted Caramels.  Perfect! I had all the ingredients.  This is my version of the recipe for Coconut Thumbprints with CHOCOLATE caramels. Makes about 40 cookies 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature 4 oz. cream cheese, softened at room temperature 1 [...]

By |2012-01-31T17:38:13-05:00February 1, 2012|Chocolate, cookies|1 Comment

Chocolate with Francois: Milk Chocolate Caramels with Fleur De Sel

This month Julie chose a recipe from the book Chocolate Epiphany and I knew I was in trouble.  You see, I just cannot resist caramel or toffee. There’s not a THING healthy about the candy.  We don’t even use dark chocolate.  Still, that wasn’t going to stop me from trying my hand at making a chewy, creamy caramel at home.  Unfortunately, these sweets turned out so good, I’ll probably be using this recipe over and over again.  My dentist and I are going to get very close in the months to come. Page 77, a Francois Payard recipe.  Makes about [...]

By |2012-01-28T13:45:18-05:00January 30, 2012|Chocolate|7 Comments
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