Chocolates & Candy Bars

Working w/ Chocolate

History of Chocolate

Chocolate Box Guide: What's Inside Assorted Chocolate Pieces

My Chocolate Dessert Platter Choices

Making Profession-Looking Dipped Chocolate Candies

Homemade White Chocolate

Tempering Chocolate

A Shortcut in the Tempering Process

How to Fix Seized Chocolate

 

Flavoring & Coloring Chocolate

Transfer Sheets for Decorating Chocolates

+Chocolate Artistry

Chocolate Plastic (used to make decorations, can be molded)

 

Basic Fondant

Understanding Sugar-Boiling

Fillings for Chocolate Candies

What is Invert Sugar?

What is Invertase?

Drop Chocolate Candies (Clusters)

+Hazel's Chocolate Coconut Drops

Chocolate Coconut Haystacks

Chocolate Crackles (Rice Krispies)

Rochers (Chocolate covered fruit & nuts)

Chocolate Billionaires (caramel coated Rice Crispies & pecans, dipped into chocolate)

Chocolate Covered Nuts & Dried Fruit

How to Roast & Skin Nuts

Excellent Combinations

    Pecans/White Chocolate

    Hazelnuts/Milk Chocolate

    Almonds/Dark Chocolate

Rochers (Chocolate covered fruit & nuts)

+Black or White Peanut Clusters

Chocolate Covered Almonds, dusted w/ Chili powder

Party Mix-style

+White Chocolate Trash

Chocolate Cups (paper or foil candy cups)

*Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

*Gianduia Gold Cups (hazelnuts & nutella)

Chocolate Malt Truffle Cups

Chocolate Crackles (Rice Krispies)

Coconut mixed w/ chocolate, poured into cups (Chocolate Coconut Haystacks recipe?)

Bark Candies (also see Christmas Candies above)

Sticks & Stones Candy Bark (pretzel sticks, peanuts, Raisinets)

No Bake Caramel Pretzel Crack Bars

Bar-Style Candies (cut into squares or rectangles)

*Christel's Sweet & Salty No Bake Peanut Butter Bars (pretzel & peanut butter base)

Bird Bars (chocolate, puffed wheat or rice, sunflower seeds, honey-roasted peanuts)

Andes Crème de Menthe Thins (copycat recipe)

Candy Bars

Peanut Bar (as made by Lance & Mr. Peanut)

Nestlé Crunch®

Homemade PayDay Bars

Peter Paul Mounds & Almond Joy

York Peppermint Patties

Nestlé® Baby Ruth® Candy Bar

Butterfingers

Butterfingers using leaf croquant

Zagnut

*Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Homemade KIND Bars

Date "Snickers" Dessert Bites

After Dinner Mints

After Eight Mint Chocolate Thins

Andes Crème de Menthe Thins (copycat recipe)

Melting Mint Patties (uses invertase, like Juior Mints?)

Truffles

Troubleshooting Truffles

Truffles (& variations)

*Chocolate Truffles (flavored with liqueur - variations)

Chocolate Almond Truffles

Roasted White Chocolate & Coffee Truffles

Chocolate Malt Truffle Cups

Layered Hazelnut Truffles

Dipped Chocolates

Whole Fruit Chocolates

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

How to make Cherry Cordials (w/ Kirsch liqueur)

Chocolate Covered Cherries

Polish Chocolate Plums (prunes stuffed w/ almonds)

 

Marshmallow, Fudge Fillings

Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows

Fudge dipped in chocolate & rolled in crushed toffee bits or nuts

 

Ganache Fillings

Also see Truffles (above) which can be dipped

Hazelnut-Chocolate Bites (hazelnut ganache filling)

 

Buttercreams (Cream Fondants)

Buttercreams (Cream Fondant w/ flavor variations)

Raspberry Fondant (Chocolate covered Bonbons)

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Buttercream Candies (uses cream cheese shortcut)

Lemon Creams (or other citrus fruit, marshmallow cream shortcut)

Pistachio Chocolates

Belgian Gianduja Chocolates (choclate & hazelnut paste)

Kentucky Bourbon Balls (made w/ pecans soaked in bourbon)

Chocolate Coconut Balls (w/ Macadamia nuts)