HM Sweets for Xmas Presents - cheap recipes?

babyshoes

JillS wrote: »

Ingredients:
1 tin of condensed milk (Mr.M selling 2 for £1 at the moment)

Equipment:
Tinopener
Teaspoon or dessertspoon or tablespoon depending on taste

Method:
Open tin. Dip spoon in, raise spoon and twirl to catch drips. Shove in mouth before drips start again. Repeat. And repeat. Until you start to feel slightly sick. If any is left place tin with spoon in freezer for condensed ice cream.

Better still, buy the 2 for £1, open one to eat now, and put one unopened tin in a big pot full of water and boil it for 4 hours, making sure the water doesn't fall below the level of the tin. Allow to cool for as long as you can manage to wait (ideally overnight), then open and consume using same method as above - yummy caramel!


NB When doing this, unless you want instant redecoration of your kitchen accompanied by a loud bang, you MUST make sure the water doesn't boil dry!

babyshoes

babyshoes wrote: »

Better still, buy the 2 for £1, open one to eat now, and put one unopened tin in a big pot full of water and boil it for 4 hours, making sure the water doesn't fall below the level of the tin. Allow to cool for as long as you can manage to wait (ideally overnight), then open and consume using same method as above - yummy caramel!


NB When doing this, unless you want instant redecoration of your kitchen accompanied by a loud bang, you MUST make sure the water doesn't boil dry!

Edit: Cross posted! Great minds, and all that!

Hannah_10

LOL, as you were putting crossed posts I delete mine because yours was way more succinct.

meritaten

ohh - read the above post and my favourite sweety from when I was pregnant with No2 came to mind!
Chocolate cherries
buy a jar of the cherries (the ones meant to go in alcoholic drinks - or the glace cherries if you prefer)
a bar of your chosen chocolate
melt the choc in a glass dish in microwave (ten second bursts and check to see if the choc is melted each time - its done when you see the outline of a few squares) then stir it well and dip each cherry in (a fork is handy for this - they fall off cocktail sticks for some reason) and leave to cool on greaseproof or baking paper (you can leave in the fridge for twenty minutes).
then eat - or you can store them in a tin or box.
you can do this with strawberries too - or any other fruit you fancy - I did it once with grapes and I liked them - the kids thought they were 'interesting'!

JillS_2

babyshoes wrote: »

Better still, buy the 2 for £1, open one to eat now, and put one unopened tin in a big pot full of water and boil it for 4 hours, making sure the water doesn't fall below the level of the tin. Allow to cool for as long as you can manage to wait (ideally overnight), then open and consume using same method as above - yummy caramel!


NB When doing this, unless you want instant redecoration of your kitchen accompanied by a loud bang, you MUST make sure the water doesn't boil dry!

Well, I did buy the 2 for £1 so I'd better go and start right now on the first part of the project.:D

ladylouise62

JillS wrote: »

Well, I did buy the 2 for £1 so I'd better go and start right now on the first part of the project.:D

...or do it in the slow cooker - much easier to control

ladylouise62

..almost forgot - easy coconut ice using condensed milk, coconut and icing sugar (with no cooking). I'm sorry that I can't post the recipe as for some reason I can't access my recipes :-( But you should be able to google it easily enough.

boultdj

Went looking for one thing and got side tracked by this thread :-], think I'm going to experiment on my next run of day's off.

rosie383

I would love to make some sweets as gifts as I am invited to a few different people for dinner over the next few days.
I got a new sugar thermometer today (never had one before!!) but all the recipes seem to call for either brown sugar or gelatine and I don't have either.
I have:

Gran sugar
Icing sugar
Treacle
Golden syrup
Cornflour
Coconut
Powdered milk (so I could make condensed milk)
Cream of tartar/ bicarb
Green food colouring
Cocoa powder
Eggs
Cream cheese
Raspberries
Strawberries

I really would love to make something using what I have, and don't want to go out and buy anything else.
I seem to be missing an essential ingredient for each recipe I have looked at, eg, lemon juice for turkish delight.

I am going out at 8.30 tonight, so something I could make quickly would be great.

hot.chick

I think u could make fudge with what you have got, sorry not got a recipe, but there will be loads on line x