Chocolate Stout Covered Beer Caramels. You aren’t always aware of the nexus of a true obsession. It may only be in hind sight that the catalyst is revealed upon agonizing inspection of your past. For me, however, the spark was breathtaking, an obvious birth of a fixation that lead to this blog. That trigger was Bison Honey Basil Ale. A beer that begged to be turned into Beer Creme Brulee, my first post. If you enjoy this little blog that I have, and are as fascinated as I am with turning beer into chewable treats, you don’t have me to thank, you owe the lovely folks at Bison Brewery a debt of gratitude. As do I, or course. For this post, I used Bison Chocolate Stout, an excellent example of the genre.
Chocolate Stout Covered Beer Caramels Ingredients For The Caramels: 12 oz bottle low hop Pale or Amber ale, divided 2 cups white sugar 1 cup light brown sugar 1 cup butter 1 cup cream 1 cup corn syrup 1 cup heavy cream For the Chocolate: 1 1/2 cups 60% dark chocolate 1/4 cup Chocolate Stout 1 tsp flakey sea salt (optional) Directions. Chocolate Pretzel Beer Toffee. The best part about visiting a brewery is the opportunity to sample those special release beers that never make it into bottles. Those brews that are only made in small batches, put into casks that sometimes make it to local pubs or events but will never make it into bottles in your local distributors shelves. Like those songs your favorite band will never record but will occasionally play live if you happen to catch a show on the right night, these are beers that make you feel special for having been granted the experience.
In a world where it seems everything is accessible with the right google word search, these near mythical concoctions are only available to those who happen to be in the right place at the right time. One of my favorites is the Habanero Sculpin from Ballast point. Because of the process they use, the heat is fresh and bright. Since I wasn’t able to get my hands on any Habanero Sculpin, I found myself fixated on this Ballast Point Calico Amber Ale. Ingredients Toffee:
Monster Eyeballs. Tricks + Treats: Spiced Caramel Buttons by Sarah Rhodes. Hey everyone I'm Sarah Rhodes, a photographer with Team Rhodes Weddings! I'm excited to share a quick *Treat* with you today. It's perfect for cold autumn days. Making caramel sounds super intimidating but it's actually so easy, you will laugh. Shopping list: (you won't need to go shopping... I guarantee you have all of this)3/4 cup to 1 cup white sugarbuttercinnamon and nutmeg, or Apple Pie Spicea cookie sheet lined with wax paper or a Silpat (if you have one) The first thing you need to do is make sure your saucepan has nothing in it - no crumbs or leftover food, or charred bits! Pour about 3/4 cup of sugar into your saucepan before you turn the stove on. Turn on the stovetop to medium heat, and just wait. Keep a close eye on it now as it starts to melt along the edge.
JUST after the caramel starts to smoke, remove it from the heat, and immediately add a generous spoonful of butter! Spoon out as many drops of caramel as you can onto your cookie sheet while it's hot! And ta-da! Copycat Candy Recipes. To make all of these Instructables, download this collection of How To’s as an ebook. Download » "Copycat Candy Recipes" is your backstage pass to famous brand-name candies! You've grown up eating these classic brand name candies, now you can recreate them at home. These Copycat Candy Recipes are sure to be just as good as the originals - if not better!! Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Sarah James Editor, Food & LivingInstructables.com.
Homemade Twix Bars - Yes, Please! Two words: Homemade + Twix! If you love Twix candy bars like I always have, then boy are you going to adore this recipe!!! These bars are made from 3 deliciously decadent layers - A layer of shortbread on bottom, creamy caramel in the middle, and chocolate on top. Seriously...does it get much better? Instead of cutting these into square bars like I did, you could even cut them into longer slices and dip them into chocolate to resemble actual Twix bars! When we first tried these bars, patience was not on our side (can you imagine that?) , so the chocolate hadn't really hardened up all the way when we took our first bites. Brad and I tend to love the taste of darker chocolate, plus I already had bittersweet chocolate on-hand, so that's what I used.
One thing that I will add is that the shortbread was a tinky tiny bit crumbly. I'll definitely be making these again...with the peanuts next time! Bon Appetit, my friends! Thousand Dollar Bars (aka homemade Twix bars) Ingredients: Shortbread Layer: Peanut Butter Potato Candy. Homemade Snickers Bars. Insanity. That’s what this is. Pure In.San.It.TEEEEE. You know those days when you’re in desperate need of sugar and you’ve already downed more gummy vitamins than recommended while seriously considering how many more you can ingest without causing severe harm to your internal organs? They’re just so gooooood. Well… in that case you should make some homemade snickers bars. And I KNOW you know what I’m talking about. I spent the majority of my pre-pubescent and adolescent years scheming just how I would be able to steal my brothers’ Halloween candy.
Then I went through a SERIOUS phase of those Snickers ice cream bars. And that you can eat a million of them. These days, it’s rare that I crave actual candy, often preferring some chewy cookies or super rich cheesecake or a bar of amazing chocolate that costs thrice as much as the recent organic meyer lemons I purchased. They are the peanut butter to my jelly. The salt to my pepper. The broccoli to my… wait, no. And the fabulous part? Nougat layer.