Making chocolates or sweets

jetty

BTW, greaseproof paper does work

mardatha

This is copied and pasted from Pink Winged:

15 digestive biscuits (crushed)
15 glace cherries (chopped)
15 marshmallows (chopped)
half a tin of condensed milk (approx 200-250g)
dessicated coconut

Mix the biscuits, cherries and marshmallow in a bowl with the condensed milk. Roll into a long sausage shape on greaseproof paper sprinkled with the coconut. Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours and then slice.

Claire_Bear

I've made the mint things before so they were a bit thicker bar at the end. The way I do it is to melt bars of value milk and white chocolate in seperate bowls, smash up a bag of hard mints with a rolling pin making sure there are some small pieces and some slightly bigger chunks. Swirl the milk and white chocolate together in a tray, sprinkle the mints on top, and swirl them around a little bit too. Then when it's set in the fridge, snap it up into pieces, it's absolutely delish. I did find that it melts very very quickly in your hand though, someone was saying it's because the chocolate isn't tempered when you melt it?

jetty

mardatha wrote: »

This is copied and pasted from Pink Winged:

15 digestive biscuits (crushed)
15 glace cherries (chopped)
15 marshmallows (chopped)
half a tin of condensed milk (approx 200-250g)
dessicated coconut

Mix the biscuits, cherries and marshmallow in a bowl with the condensed milk. Roll into a long sausage shape on greaseproof paper sprinkled with the coconut. Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours and then slice.

just made this and it's in the fridge Was it suppose to be a squiggy mess? I'm not sure if i used too much of the milk! :rotfl:

NEgirl

Ive made the mint chocolate today and its in the fridge setting - cant wait to try it!!

mardatha

Jetty yes it is kind of messy ! But just wait till it sets..... drooling here..

mardatha

why do I always read threads like this when I have NOTHING NICE IN THE HOUSE TO EAT OR MAKE !!

nikki2804

My mum loves chocolate cover brazil nuts si I bought a packet but ate some :rolleyes: so I am going to bash up the remaining ones and mix these with choccie and put into molds. Should hopefully be nice!

VfM4meplse

scotrae wrote: »

I think that I used to smash one pack of Extra Strong Mints into one 200g bar of Bourneville

I found 200g bars of Bourneville in the 99p Store recently - bought a load to make homemade choccies to give for gifts at Christmas...having just read Martin's blog I'm not sure it's such a good idea now! Having said that they will be very small bags....:money:

My plan is to make a ganache by melting chocolate into double cream and adding a dash of Cointreau. I saw the Barefoot Contessa doing something similar and felt inspired.

VfM4meplse

nikki2804 wrote: »

My mum loves chocolate cover brazil nuts si I bought a packet but ate some

Easly done!