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So, I suck at blogging.  I’m no good at updating when I bake things.  Who knew it was so difficult to actually go through the trouble of getting recipes together.

So we’re going to backpeddle a little and I’ll share with you all the things I’ve been making lately with the grand finale showing up, oh, whenever I get to it, of ME USING MY KITCHEN TORCH!

But for now…here’s a few things I’ve worked on lately… Starting with Christmas Candies

This was quite a process, I decided to make Fudge, Toffee, Peanut Butter Fudge, Divinity, Oreo Truffles, and Chocolate Truffles.

I’ve made most of these things before, but I think they turned out pretty good, minus the divinity which was experimented with quite a bit.  I’ll be trying it another day.

Have you ever sat down and thought about the ridiculous amount of butter that goes into making candies?  Or the supplies in general.  It’s disgusting. Trust me.

There are THREE POUNDS OF BUTTER OVER THERE.  That is enough to give you a pretty sweet heart attack, no questions asked.  Let’s not even talk about the amount of sugar, chocolate, marshmallow fluff, and cream cheese that is over there.  It was disgusting, trust me.  I couldn’t even eat these treats for a couple days and even then I took a large amount of the leftover back to Kansas for my family to eat.

So first, I’ve made this Peanut Butter Fudge before, you can look into that here. I did it a little differently and made it look a little more fancy.  By fancy I mean, I made a double batch.  MORE FAT = FANCY, YA’LL.

Now, onto the single item I made that caused The Boyfriend to drool all over everywhere even though it was by far the simplest thing ever.

Ready for this?

Seriously.

THE OREO TRUFFLE.

Before I even show you what this thing looks like, I’m going to tell you how to make it.  Get your pens and papers ready because it’s a real toughy.  You will need

1 pkg. Oreo Cookies

1 8 oz pkg. cream cheese (softened)

In your food processor crush the Oreos into a pretty fine powder, then mix together with the softened cream cheese.  Refrigerate for about 2 hours, roll into balls, dip in white chocolate.  Later you can make some fancy green drizzles on top like I did.

The Boyfriend has repeatedly requested these since Christmas and may or may not be getting a box of the for Valentines Day, I just love him that much I suppose.  They will, however, be drizzled in red and pink and maybe a few dipped in regular chocolate.  Like I said, don’t ruin that surprise for me BECAUSE HE NEVER READS THIS BLOG OR ANYTHING.

The other items are made from some tried and true recipes, such as the fudge recipe off the back of the marshmallow fluff jar (The Boyfriend has seriously bragged to people about this recipe, even after I told him it’s not some ancient recipe, it’s off the jar of Kraft Marshmallow Fluff)  Though, in a taste test performed in the IT room apparently my fudge wins out over the gourmet fudge that some Alaskans sent to them.  I’m just that good.

The chocolate truffles are courtesy of none other than the Pioneer Woman.

And the divinity, well, the divinity is from a cookbook The Grandma used to use, and while every other time she or I made divinity it has turned out wonderfully, this time it didn’t turn out.  It was dry and just not right.  I did experiment with adding some other flavors to it though which was interesting and definitely something I may try again in hopes of the divinity turning out a little better.

Successful post 1 or 20000 things I’ve made and never blogged about.

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