Homemade Cotton Candy. Cotton Candy is not just for carnivals anymore. In fact, turns out, it's becoming downright fashionable. According to this Boston Globe article, this early 20th century treat is getting a gourmet spin (spin, get it? Spin?) In preparations like the $16 cotton candy drink at LA's restaurant Bazaar, to chef Lydia Shire's experiments with flavoring at her Boston restaurant Towne. In my last post we talked about a newly released book on working with sugar by Gesine Bullock-Prado, called Sugarbaby. The book is divided into sections according to the stage of sugar with which it is dealing. So home made cotton candy without a machine. Instead of a machine, you're going to use what Bullock-Prado calls a "decapitated whisk", which is simply the least expensive whisk you can find, with the tines snipped at the top by a wire-cutter.
Another tip I found to help, which Bullock-Prado doesn't mention, is that you shouldn't wait until you have enough spun sugar for a completed cotton candy. 1. 2. 3. 4. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites. Salty and sweet. Crunchy and melt-in-your-mouth. Peanut butter and chocolate. Dangerous and delicious (you know what I mean). One little bite, so much to experience. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites recipe courtesy Foodaphilia.com Calorie estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 for complete recipe (depending upon dipping chocolate and pretzels used, etc.) Yield 60 – 80 pretzel bites Ingredients 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 tbsp softened butter 1/2 cup powdered sugar (maybe more) 3/4 cup brown sugar (maybe more) Pretzels 1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips Directions Combine peanut butter and softened butter in a large bowl with a fork or whisk, or in a stand mixer.
Use a teaspoon measure to scoop the filling. Pour the chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat at 30-second intervals, stirring occasionally until completely melted. Oreo Cheesecake Pretzel Bites. Tiger Butter. Coconut Ice. Coconut Ice candy is so cool..not literally cool, it’s not actually ice. It’s a chewy little morsel of sweet goodness. It was quite popular at my sisters beautiful baby shower that I threw for her. in case you missed the awesomeness, you can view it here . One word of advice…DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use regular sweetened flake coconut. It will be WAYYYYY too sweet. It is sweet enough as it is. So you must find some dried, unsweetened coconut. Ohhh, and I forgot the best part, you can color it any color you little heart desires! Coconut Ice Author: Leslie Green- The Hungry Housewife Recipe type: Dessert Prep time: Total time: Serves: 24 A sweet, no bake dessert Ingredients 3 cups + 6 tablespoons Powdered Sugar, sifted 2½ cups unsweetened dried coconut(also know as desiccated coconut) 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk, lowfat or non fat is fine 1¼ teaspoon vanilla extract Food coloring (optional) Instructions Notes * If you don’t like to use food coloring, feel free to leave it out.
Popcorn Fudge. That's right. I went there. I told myself I was going to give up on the idea of putting popcorn in a dessert, after several failed attempts and so many other popcorn dessert recipes floating around the internet. But here's what happened; I was making regular old vanilla fudge for A's birthday and I got bored. He didn't want cake. He asked for lasagne, so I made that for him.
But as per usual I couldn't resist making something sweet for afterwards. He doesn't like most desserts, but he really likes fudge. I started making the fudge, and just happened to be making a batch of fresh popcorn for myself at the same time. I've tried quite a few fudge recipes in the past, with varying results. Popcorn Vanilla Bean Fudge(adapted from this vanilla fudge recipe)15g (1 tbsp) cold unsalted butter, plus more for pan1 1/2 cups pouring cream3 cups sugar1/4 cup liquid glucose or light corn syrup1/4 teaspoon salt1 tsp pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste1/2 cup popping corn kernels, popped.
Chocolate-Covered Bacon Turtles. Homemade Candy Bars. If you’re like most people, you probably started off the year with a whole list of resolutions: more sleep! Less coffee! More exercise! Less television! More vegetables! I call them “Resolution Breaker Candy Bars,” and if you’re absolutely wedded to your healthy eating habits, stop reading now before it’s too late… Still here? Resolution Breaker Candy Barsyield: about 20 bars Ingredients 24 ounces chocolate candy coating1/2 stick (2 oz) butter1 cup granulated sugar1/4 cup evaporated milk1 jar (7 oz) marshmallow creme or fluff1 tsp vanilla extract1/3 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunky14 oz soft caramels, unwrapped1.5 cups roasted, salted peanuts To make it easier to remove and cut the bars, line a 9×13 pan with aluminum foil.
Most nougat recipes are pretty complicated and involve whipping egg whites into a meringue and using a candy thermometer to boil a sugar syrup. Bring the mixture in the pot to a boil, and boil it for four minutes, stirring constantly to keep it from scorching. Homemade Taffy. Welcome to our Sweat Sweet Shoppe! If you are alarmed by red dye, excessive amounts of sugar and under age workers turn away now! If not, stick around and see how we made loads of homemade taffy! Here’s our recipe Homemade Taffy 2 1/2 cups white sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup light corn syrup 1 1/3 cups water 2 tablespoons butter (plus lots extra to butter hands, we probably used over 1/2 of stick of butter on our hands) 1 teaspoon salt 1 – .21oz (6g) package unsweetened, fruit-flavored drink mix (like Kool-Aid) (we used cherry)****however I used Great Value brand from Wal-mart and those were the measurements on the package and it said it made two quarts of drink. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Butter large jelly roll pan or a cookie sheet with sides really well.
In a medium saucepan, stir together the sugar and cornstarch. Directions: Once the taffy has cooled enough to handle, butter hands and begin pulling. Then pull…and pull…butter hands again…pull… and stretch…pull…more hand buttering…pull… and cut!