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Homemade Chocolate Peanut Candies

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These Chocolate Peanut candies make a wonderful holiday gift.
It is really nice to present a friend or family member with something that
you have handmade and these little treats are very tasty too!

The hardest part of making these is putting the boxes together! I’m serious. They come flat in the package and it’s very difficult to pull them open and fold without tearing them.

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Ingredients and packaging:

  • Candy Melts, light and/or dark chocolate (you can find these at Michaels or any cake and candy supply store)
  • Planters Unsalted Dry Roasted Peanuts (they must be unsalted or the chocolate won’t stick)
  • Candy cups (also found at Michaels or a cake and candy supply store)
  • Candy boxes
  • Stickers to seal the boxes

Melt one pack of the candy melts in a double boiler (or in a pot inside another pot with water underneath as shown in the photos)

Pour the peanuts into the melted chocolate (just mix them in until it is mostly peanuts and not much loose chocolate left)

Immediately spoon into little candy cups on a cookie tray being careful not to fill too full so they will fit properly in the boxes.

Chill in refrigerator or outside (weather permitting) for about an hour. Put them into the boxes and seal the boxes shut with the stickers.

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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
These are always a favorite!

  • 2 Cups Graham cracker crumbs (I prefer the Nabisco Honey Maid. You can get them already crushed in a box in the baking section of the store)
  • 2 Sticks Butter
  • 3/4 lb. Confectioners Sugar
  • 1 Cup Peanut butter

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Melt butter in a saucepan over very low heat, then add remaining ingredients.

Press flat onto bottom of cookie sheet

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  • Melt 12 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips (I use Nestle) in a double boiler or over extremely low heat (do NOT burn)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pour over the top of the mixture on the sheet. Chill for 1 hr. then cut into squares-Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

I use a pizza wheel to cut them and a spatula to scoop them out after they are completely chilled.

 

 

 

 

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Chocolate Fudge Recipe

Chocolate Fudge Recipe

This recipe came from a very long time dear friend in Vermont. We became very close friends many years ago

when we used to live there too.  Once when my son was very young, probably about 2 or 3, my friend and her

husband were visiting and talking to their son who lives in California. My son was upstairs in bed, supposed to be

sleeping but when Dean yelled out, “hey Dan you’re missing the fudge man, bummer!” My son mimicked him

and yelled down the stairs “bummer!”  It was hilarious!

Homemade Chocolate Fudge

Homemade Chocolate Fudge

Ingredients:

1/3 Cup Milk

1 sq. unsweetened chocolate (or 2 to 3 TBS. of cooa)

Place over low heat stirring until chocolate it melted and mixture is smooth.

Stir in:

2 cups sugar

1 tsp. corn syrup

dash of salt

 

Cook gently stirring from the bottom occasionally to 236 degrees with a candy thermometer

(a little dropped into cold water (a small cup full of water) forms a soft ball)

Remove from heat.

Add 2 TBS. butter and cool without stirring to lukewarm.

Add 1 tsp. vanilla.

(Add chopped nuts now if desired)

Beat until thick & no longer glossy.

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