Candy Making

I thought it would be fun to make candy this year. Dad thought it would be fun to have a treat to hand out at tithing settlement, and I thought it would be fun if it were candy! The first week we only made 4 batches of candy: Caramel, Peanut Butter Balls dipped in chocolate, Ego Boosters and Toffee.

That little bit didn't last too long, but it was so much fun that we had a candy making session the next Saturday. Mom, Katie, Mark and I got together to spend a few hours making candy and ended up with 13 batches. Mom made the most (although she also had the ones that went together the fastest): Ego Boosters, Rocky Road Fudge, her mom's Rocky Road, her Fudge (good stuff!) with and without nuts. Katie got two batches of Peanut Butter Balls (smooth and crunchy) and dipped them in chocolate and finished off the chocolate with some cashew clusters. Mark spent an hour by the stove making two double batches of almonds (Orange Almond Sweeties and Oriental Almonds). I made Caramels and two kinds of Bark (one batch each with peppermint and cherry candy canes) then got the toffee started that Mark helped with and I finished off with chocolate on top.

It was lots of fun, but it made a mess of the kitchen!

Go Mom Go! (she's cooking her fudge)

This was towards the middle of the session. We even had fresh home made bread and honey butter from the night before!

I think I'll call this a success! We started at 3 and had to break at 5 for the ward party and did the finishing touches and last batch or two at 8. We finally headed to bed at 11, after talking, laughing, and cleaning! We'll probably do this again!