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Chocolate Easter Bunny Pretzels

February 24th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Chocolate Easter Bunny Pretzels

I am always looking for festive new ideas for the holidays. I have two kids and I seem to always be sending goodies to school for various occasions and holidays. Last year I found something in my local craft store I had not seen before. Probably not new, just new to me.

In my never ending search for different chocolate molds, I found an adorable mold to make Easter Bunny Pretzels. This was such a clever idea. Instead of using the traditional white sticks, the area where the sticks would go was wide, made to hold a pretzel log. So instead of just having plain old pretzels dipped in chocolate, or plain chocolate bunnies on a stick, I had chocolate bunnies on a pretzel. The kids loved them!

So next time you are browsing the chocolate molds isle, take a look for these. I have looked for this type of mold for other holidays and have not seen any. So keep your eyes peeled, and let me know what you find and where you found it.

Chocolate Candy Painting

February 20th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

My favorite holiday is Easter. Why, because I really enjoy making gorgeous masterpieces for the Easter Baskets! If you have never “painted” your chocolates before, don’t run off scared. It is really easy. Depending on the size of the mold and the detail in it, you can use a small paint brush or a toothpick. Just melt a very small amount of the desired colored. Sometimes one chip is all that may be needed. For instance, the eyes on an easter bunny, or the green stem of his carrot. Simply paint the designs in your mold and let set. Once all of the detail is finished and set, you can fill your mold. After the entire mold is set, and you turn out your chocolate, you will be impressed with the how easy it is to get great results. And you don’t need to paint all the detail, just pick out a few accents to paint.

Melting Chocolate

February 19th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you are like me, you enjoy making chocolate as much as eating it. And these days, anytime someone in my family throws a party, I am delegated to make the chocolate lollipops.

Melting chocolate can be a tricky business. I prefer to melt the chocolate using a double boiler. A double boiler is one pot set over another that has simmering water in the bottom. If you don’t have a double boiler you can improvise, by placing a stainless steel bowl over a pot of simmering water. The only problem with this method is you risk getting water into the chocolate, which will make it seize, but if you’re very careful the double boiler method works fine. Do not allow the simmering water to touch the bottom of the top pot (or bowl as the case may be).

Remember to melt the chocolate slowly and don’t make it to hot or it will be clumpy and burn.

Chocolate

February 19th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Everyone loves Chocolate, each American eats almost 12 pounds of chocolate per year. And there are many ways to enjoy it. We eat it in candies, cakes puddings and pies. We drink it warm and cold. And ice cream, so many different flavors of chocolate. Before the 1900’s, only the elite were priveleged enough to have this wonderful confection. Now, you can probably find something chocolate in every home.
And now we know that dark chocolate contains small amounts of anti-oxidants known for its anti-aging properties. It’s a fact that plain dark chocolate products containing a minimum 70% or more cocoa solids are the healthiest and the best way to satisfy a craving for chocolate, without consuming too much sugar and saturated fat. Chocolate that is good for you, life couldn’t be any better.

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