Dec. 4th, 2011

Turtle fail

Dec. 4th, 2011 10:18 am
tvordlj: (Christmas Candy Canes)
You know the chocolates called Turtles? Caramel pecan covered in chocolate? I've been making them myself for years every year at christmas for presents. I used to make them for my brother in law but after their divorce, i kept on making them for the kids at least. One of my friends expects them as well. I've missed a couple of years but not many. Looks like this will be a missed year too. I did make them. I did them yesterday but i had a massive fail with the chocolate for dipping!

I bought the nuts and chocolate at the bulk store and i was uncertain about the chocolate chips. They were milk chocolate but that's ok but now i wonder if they were pure chocolate or not. They melted ok at first but then kept thickening up quite a bit making it hard to dip the candy. i thought i could thin it out so i added a little cream. That made it worse and even thicker as it "cooked" over the double boiler. Hmm... ok.. what else? Butter?  Tried that... seemed to work ok, it thinned it for awhile but it thickened up again. Still i continued on and coated them all. Into the fridge to cool down. I tried one later, though and it was rank! Definitely didn't pass quality control and i can't in good conscience pass them on as gifts. I don't think i'll get around to buying all that stuff again and messing around making them before the holidays so this will just have to be a Turtle-less year I'm afraid. I'll know not to use bulk store chocolate anymore for dipping.

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