Holiday Candy Recipes - The greatest Recipes to Make Candy

Do you like candy as much as I do? Well, did you know that you can prepare appetizing candy from the relax of your home? Pecan pralines, raspberry divinity, chocolate turtles and coconut bon bons are some simple yet appetizing candy recipes you can prepare at home.

Below are the recipes so you can try them out and you will see what i mean:

"Chocolate Candy Recipes"

1. Pecan Pralines

Ingredients:

- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 tablespoon of maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt
- 1 cup of chopped pecans

Directions:

- merge sugars and milk.
- Cook over low heat, stirring enduringly until sugars are dissolved and compound boils.
- Cook until thermometer registers 224.
- Add butter and pecans.
- Cook until a small number of compound forms a soft ball when dropped in cold water.
- Cool quickly to lukewarm.
- Stir in maple syrup and heat until thick.
- Drop on a buttered exterior and flatten out into patties.

2. Raspberry Divinity

Ingredients:

- 3 cups of sugar
- 1 - 3 oz. Container of raspberry gelatin
- 1/2 cup of flaked coconut
- 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
- 3/4 cup of light corn syrup
- 1 cup of chopped pecans
- 3/4 cu of water

Directions:

- merge sugar, corn syrup, and water.
- Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
- cut heat and cook to hard ball stage.
- merge beaten egg whites and gelatin - beat until compound forms stiff peaks.
- Pour hot syrup slowly into egg whites, beating until candy loses gloss and holds shape.
- Fold in coconut and nuts (optional).
- Pour into greased 9 inch quadrilateral pan.
- Top with rows of chopped nuts and coconut.

3. Chocolate Turtles

Ingredients:

For The Turtles

- 2 squares of chocolate
- 1/2 cup of margarine
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla

For The Icing:

- 1/2 quadrilateral of chocolate
- 1/2 cup of brown sugar
- 1/4 cup of water
- 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter
- Powdered sugar

Directions:

- Melt 2 squares of chocolate and 1/2 cup of margarine.
- Beat 2 eggs. Add sugar. Fold chocolate compound into egg mixture.
- Fold in 1 cup flour and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Drop by teaspoon on hot waffle iron (low).
- Bake 50 seconds.
- Cool and frost.
- Icing: Boil chocolate, brown sugar, water, and butter 3 minutes.
- Take off heat.
- Add powdered sugar until thick.
- Put on turtles.
- Sprinkle with ground nuts.

4. Coconut Bon Bons

Ingredients:

- 3/4 cup of instant potatoes (2 servings cooked, but not seasoned)
- 4 cups of flaked coconut
- 1 - 16 oz. Container of powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon of almond extract

Directions:

- Stir together the instant potatoes, coconut, powdered sugar, and the almond extract, mixing thoroughly.
- Refrigerate the compound for 1 to 2 hours.
- Melt a 12 ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/3 of a bar of paraffin was in a double boiler.
- Shape the coconut compound into small balls and dip in the melted chocolate.
- Lay on waxed paper until cool.

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Valentine's Day Recipe - Homemade Chocolate Bark (Cooking at Home with Carolyn)

Valentine's Day Recipe - Homemade Chocolate Bark (Cooking at Home with Carolyn) Video Clips. Duration : 8.82 Mins.

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Jack o' lamp Halloween Cake - A Bundt Cake Treat!

Just as Jack o' Lanterns can inspire laughter, the heebie-jeebies, or a round of "Trick or Treat!" so can your sculpted Jack o' lantern cakes!

If you're new to cake decorating or cake sculpting, you'll find the Jack O' lantern cake is fun and easy. And, if you're already experienced, you will have all the more fun by adding intricate details. Whether way, this Jack o' lantern Halloween cake is sure to light up faces at your next Halloween party.

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Jack o' lantern Cake Instructions

Before you whip up a batch of buttercream, take out a piece of paper and sketch some Jack o' lantern faces. If you have kids at the house, enlist their help. Searching “Google Images” for Jack o' lantern will also deliver lots of ideas. Once you've narrowed down your favorites to a final selection, convention drawing it to make the piping easier.

Ready? Here we go!

1. Bake 2 Bundt cakes. Coincidentally, pumpkin works like a charm for a Halloween model cake because of its firmness (see recipe below). Butter cake works well too.

2. After releasing and cooling the 2 cakes, level the bottoms.

3. Ice the bottoms with orange buttercream (non crusting is best for this project). Place one upsidedown, and the other on top, so the iced bottoms fit together.

4. Now, cover the cake with orange buttercream. As you plane your icing, you can work with the natural indentions left by the Bundt pans that mimic the vertical lines on a real pumpkin.

5. Using the orange buttercream, pipe the outlines of the facial features. If you make a mistake, just plane it and start over. 5. Now for the fun part! Here are a few ideas for creating the details of your Jack o' Lantern's face.

a. Fit an icing bag with a small star tip and fill with chocolate buttercream. Fill in the eyes, nose and gaps in the middle of the teeth.

b. After completing the step above, add details such as pupils to the eyes with icing candies, like M&M's and black licorice.

c. To make your Jack o' lantern glow, use yellow gel instead of chocolate buttercream (remember not to cover the teeth and other places that would be left intact in a real Jack o' Lantern).

d. Instead of piping facial features, bring Jack to life by modeling eyes, nose, teeth and any other features you want to add (eyebrows?) with rolled butterceam icing or marzipan.

Just like a real Jack O' lantern your Bundt o' lantern will have a hole in the top. Here are a few ways you can put the lid on Jack.

a. Cover an ice cream cone with green or chocolate buttercream and using icing, cleave this upside down over the hole in the top. Then using a large leaf tip, pipe a few green leaves around the top.

b. Model the stem and leaves with rolled buttercream.

c. Save just enough batter from the recipe below to make a cupcake. Trim it for the stem shape you want and cleave with icing to the top.

And here's your pumpkin cake recipe!

Halloween Pumpkin Cake

Note: This pumpkin cake makes a great treat for grown-ups too, and it's even more devilishly delicious with a buttercream and chopped nuts icing.

4 cups canned pumpkin

6 cups sugar

2 cup vegetable oil

6 eggs

6 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp ground cloves

2 tsp ground cinnamon

2 tsp ground nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour 2 10-inch Bundt pans. Blend the pumpkin, sugar, oil, and eggs. Sift remaining ingredients into a separate bowl. Mixing as you add it, spoon the pumpkin composition into the dry mixture. Blend well. Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the middles comes out clean (around an hour and 15 minutes). Allow cakes to cool in pans for 5 minutes. Release, and after wholly cooled, decorate.

Serving Tip: This is even better tasting and easier to work with after mellowing overnight, covered in the refrigerator.

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Last but not least, here's one more tip. The quantity of liquid food coloring needed to concoct Halloween brown and black will bring a bitter flavor to your buttercream. Here's what you can do to keep the ghoulish elements in the form and out of the icing:

• Instead of liquid food coloring, opt for the more intense gel or paste forms. Can't find these locally? Try www.CandyLandCrafts.com

• Use chocolate for brown and start with dark chocolate for black (and you won't need as much black food coloring).

• Skip the chocolate and food colorings, and use instead candy and cookies. String black licorice works great for outlining. Crush, dark chocolate cookies or crumble dark chocolate cake to use to fill in large areas, like around Jack's teeth.

Happy Halloween Cake Making!

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How to Fill a Cake - Using Flavored Fillings in the middle of Cake Layers

Using flavored filling to fill a cake is a great way to give a unique and flavorful twist to your cake. Fruit flavors are used most often, but there are a collection of other flavors that can be used also. Some beloved filling flavors are:

- raspberry filling
- strawberry filling
- lemon filling
- bavarian creme filling
- chocolate creme filling
- apricot filling

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Fillings can be made from scratch or purchased pre-made. Pollyner makes a goods called All Fruit that can be found in the jelly section of most grocery stores. Pollyner All Fruit is a astounding filling to use to fill a cake. It also comes in a wide collection of flavors.
What you will need to fill a cake:

- 2 baked cake layers
- metal spatula
- pastry bag (10" or larger)
- coupler
- frosting (the same frosting you plan to ice the cake with)

Place your first cake layer on the cake board.

Drop your coupler into your pastry bag. We are going to use the pastry bag and coupler without a pastry tip to make a "dam" for the filling.

Fill your pastry bag with frosting.

Now, we are going to make our "dam" for the filling. This will help keep the filling from oozing out the sides of the cake.

Using your pastry bag, squeeze a ring of icing nearby the outer edge of your cake layer. Just do this one time nearby the edge of the cake.

Next, we are going to add the filling. You want your filling to be no more than 1/4" thick on your cake. Place the filling in the town of the cake and spread it outwards towards your "dam".

You want to make sure to spread it evenly. Again, you only want it about 1/4" thick. Any thicker and the filling will most likely squish out the sides of the cake layers.

You are now ready to place your other cake layer on top, ice, and decorate.

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Chocolate Truffle Recipes - Learn to put in order Them From Home

Chocolate is the ultimate indulgence. And if you are a chocolate lover then you will be willing to get more chocolate recipes and test the separate chocolate flavors.

Here are some great chocolate recipes you can try out at home:

"Chocolate Candy Recipes"

1. Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients:

- 1/2 Cup unsalted butter
- 2 1/3 C confectioner's sugar
- 1/2 C cocoa
- 1/4 cup heavy or whipping cream 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Centers: pecan, walnuts, whole almonds or after-dinner mints

Coatings: coconut, crushed nuts, confectioner's sugar

Directions:

- Cream butter in large mixer bowl.
- join 2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar and the cocoa; add alternately with cream and vanilla to butter.
- Blend well.
- Chill until firm. Shape small amount of composition nearby desired center; roll into 1 inch balls.
- Drop into desired coating and turn until well covered. Chill until firm.

Makes about 3 dozen truffles

2. Chocolate Covered Truffles

Ingredients:

- 1/4 C butter
- 1 1/2 lbs. Real semisweet chocolate
- 3/4 C non-dairy coffee creamer, any flavor
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla passage
- 1 1/2 pounds real milk chocolate for dipping 1 cup finely chopped chocolate, milk or semisweet for decoration

Directions:

- Melt semisweet chocolate in double boiler over hot water.
- Heat butter, creamer and vanilla in an additional one saucepan to 125° F on a candy thermometer. - Add to semisweet chocolate all at once, beating until flat and creamy.
- Chill in refrigerator until nearly set but still pliable.
- Beat with mixer until light and fluffy.
- Spread in 9 inch buttered pan until set adequate to roll into small balls.
- Melt milk chocolate over double boiler.
- Dip truffles in melted chocolate, then sprinkle generously, or roll in, chopped chocolate

Makes about 3 dozen truffles

3. Mocha Truffles

Ingredients:

- 2 packages (12 oz each) Semi sweet chocolate chips
- 8 oz. Cream cheese, softened 3 T instant coffee granules 2 tsp.
- Water 1 lb.
- Good dark chocolate cocoa confection coating white confection coating, optional

Directions:

- In a microwave-safe bowl or double boiler, melt chocolate chips.
- Add cream cheese, coffee and water; mix well. Chill until firm adequate to shape.
- Shape into 1" balls and place on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet.
- Chill for 1-2 hours or until firm.
- Melt chocolate coating in microwave-safe bowl or double boiler.
- Dip balls and place on waxed paper to harden.
- If desired, melt white coating and drizzle over truffles

Makes about 5 1/2 dozen.

4. Peanut Butter and Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients:

- 1 C peanut butter chips
- 3/4 C butter
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla

Coatings: crushed graham cracker crumbs, confectioners sugar or crushed nuts

Directions:

- In a heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt chips with butter.
- Stir in cocoa until smooth.
- Add condensed milk and vanilla.
- Cook and stir until thickened and well blended, about 4 minutes.
- remove from heat.
- Chill until firm adequate to handle.
- Shape into 1 inch balls.
- Roll in desired coating.
- Chill until firm.
- Store, covered in refrigerator

Makes about 3 dozen truffles

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recipe For yummy Homemade Candy - Mint Chocolate Truffles

Making candy can be a admittedly fun activity. And the results are so worth the effort. Whether for a special opening or just for the delight of it, turning out your own candy is very rewarding. Here is a great recipe for chocolate candy--my favorite! These yummy Mint Chocolate Truffles are from a recipe I got years ago from a Cooking Light magazine.

Mint Chocolate Truffles

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1/3 cup semisweet mint-chocolate chips
4-oz Neufchatel cheese, softened
16-oz pkg powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 cup sifted powdered sugar
2 tbsps semisweet mint-chocolate chips

Place the 1/3 cup mint-chocolate chips in a microwave safe medium to large bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minuscule or until the chips are almost melted. Stir until smooth. Set aside to cool.

When chocolate is cooled, add the Neufchatel cheese and beat at medium speed of an electric mixer until smooth. Add the powdered sugar to the mixture and beat until well blended. Press the mixture into a 6-inch square on heavy-duty plastic wrap and cover with added plastic wrap. Chill at least one hour. Remove the top sheet of plastic wrap and cut truffle into 48 squares. Roll each square into a small ball and place on waxed paper. Roll half the balls in the unsweetened cocoa and the other half in the powdered sugar. Place the 2 tablespoons of the mint-chocolate chips into a heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag. Microwave on high 1 minuscule or until the chips are softened. Knead the bag until the chips are smooth. Make a tiny snip in one lowest angle of the bag. Drizzle chocolate over the balls that have been rolled in cocoa. Serve at room temperature.

Note: I got this recipe from Cooking Light in 1999.

Enjoy!

recipe For yummy Homemade Candy - Mint Chocolate Truffles

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Chocolate Candy Recipes

Finding A Genuine Chocolate Candy Recipe

We have all enjoyed eating chocolate candy, right? I believe we have even watched documentaries on how it is done, and maybe visited a factory, like Hershey's, and seen it done. But, have we ever used a chocolate candy recipe ourselves and surely made our own? It is often said that those old time granny recipes are the best place to find good make it yourself chocolate candy recipe.

"Chocolate Candy Recipes"

To find a chocolate candy recipe, you can pick up any cookbook, or one specific for just dessert and confections. Hershey's has one just for that. I bought one for my wife for Christmas. You may even have an old passed down from generation to generation cookbook with chocolate candy recipes no one has ever heard of.

The internet is other form of obtaining surely good chocolate candy recipes. I know, I have looked. Whether it is on someone's personal blog, or listed from a major manufacturer, there are plentifulness of resources right on the web. Also, other web trick. If you want to find other listings that are not showing up immediately in the hunt engine, go to google images. Seriously, type in what you are looking for and listed below the image is the site or site listings for, in this case, chocolate candy recipes.

Your family and friends, or co-workers on the job, a trainer at school are all great sources for obtaining a top ability chocolate candy recipe. Some of them have been doing this sort of thing for years, and are quite the confectionist. Ok, here is a recipe from a 50 year old cook book my wife owns.

Chocolate Coconut Drops

They have:
Melt over hot water, 2oz. Of chopped up unsweetened chocolate (you can do this in a sauce pan as well on low heat)

Stir in:
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 lb. Coconut, chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

Drop by teaspoons onto baking sheet. Place in pre-heated oven at 350°. Once in turn off oven. Leave in for practically 15-20 minutes, until chocolate candy has glazed appearance. Remove and cool.

Chocolate Candy Recipes

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