Candy Making, Anyone?

[Surgeon General]

Anyone not think I'm a pansy for making candies as a hobby? My favorites have always been different variations on truffles, but I still wrestle with tempering the chocolate every time. I make caramels/caramel sauce, different types of fudge as well.. A great idea for anyone making truffles-

Replace about 1/2 of the cream with a cooked & reduced raspberry juice (strain the seeds out) in the ganache filling. Freeze the mixture overnight & spoon out into balls like you would regularly, then let re freeze. Coat as quick as you can with the tempered chocolate as you would normally. The filling will remain somewhat liquid & is a great combination of flavors.

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[bub]

SG... go get a flashlight....
Got it?
Ok... now go through your cabinets, garage, under the woodpile... and find your penis... for christ sakes.
BUB

[Surgeon General]

Bub, the most powerful flashlight I have is one of those rechargeable 1 million candlelight pieces, and I'm not sure that will be enough. You sound like you have experience in these types of searches.. is there a more powerful model that you can personally vouch for?

And to all you little leaguers out there (25 points to anyone who gets that reference-Bub might), the correct manipulation of chocolate is a sure way to a smokin' woman's heart.

[Brew Engineer]

the correct manipulation of chocolate is a sure way to a smokin' woman's heart.

That may be, but I'm not sure you'd know what to do with it once you got her heart... maybe coat it in chocolate and eat it? While wearing the skin suit?

[bub]

And to all you little leaguers out there

Mmm kay, I don't listen, watch, or follow baseball in ANY WAY but that would be Steve Stone, Cubs baseball announcer.
I only follow Ladies Tennis and Beach Vollyball.... and once every 4 years Womens Curling.
BUB

[DannyW]

...I'm a pansy...I still wrestle with...chocolate. I make... sauce, different types of fudge.

spoon into balls. The somewhat liquid filling is a great combination of flavors.

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? JP? George Michael? WHAM!?

This is a public service reminder that, like the Great Pumpkin on halloween, the Lunch Meet Unicorn may or may not appear today. You have been warned.

[Surgeon General]

the correct manipulation of chocolate is a sure way to a smokin' woman's heart.

That may be, but I'm not sure you'd know what to do with it once you got her heart... maybe coat it in chocolate and eat it?

I'm not sure either. My wife keeps telling me she'll show me how it works when our son gets out of the house, but he's only three for Christ's sake! Man, am I excited to find out!

[Vanna #1]

spoon out into balls like you would regularly

Umm this is the only part that I really get and I'm a chick. Just saying....