Chocolates

It's Christmastime! And that means chocolates!! YUM!!First you boil some good stuff like cream and sugar together.

After letting it sit in the cold snow for awhile, you beat it (for a good long while, but it's okay because you think maybe if you beat enough batches of chocolates and fudge, you might just be as buff as your mother someday.... nahh!),

until it looks like this. Then you either leave it plain vanilla or add flavorings. I did mostly vanilla, but some mint, some maple, and just a few raspberry and orange.

Then you roll them out.

(please try not to notice the empty spot where there used to be a mint chocolate center. I don't know who could have stolen it. Certainly not me.)

Delicious-looking, no?

And then you dip them. And that's where things got a bit... rough. Things were going fine at first (bottom bit of the picture) and got progressively worse.

WHAT ARE THESE?!!! Well the centers started melting into the chocolate which got gloopy after that, and this is the best I could do by the end. Mom--you'd be ashamed. Well actually she was very sympathetic. I think it was because I wasn't using real dipping chocolate and I got my chocolate too hot. I did a lot better on my second pan.

And yet, still delicious.

Now that's where the post should have ended. In fact, I had it all ready to post the other night and was just going to wait and put in the picture of Hazel and then post it. Unfortunately, today at lunch, Brett put a container of leftover spaghetti into the microwave and heated it up and took it out to see that IT WAS MY CHOCOLATES!!! Wahhhhh!!! All my long work and now it looks like this:
I was so mad. I told Brett he was fired and he said it was an accident--but I fired him anyway. So everyone who I was going to share these chocolates with, sorry, now you don't get any. Then I was grumpy for awhile, but now I'm not because really, since I can't share them I guess that means I'll have to eat them all myself. I can live with that.