Confections! What did we make? (2014 – 2016)

[Anna N]

Wow. Congratulations on two fronts – – your wedding and your beautiful chocolates. Much happiness always.

[rajoress]

What a wonderful sweets table minas6907! And to be able to do it for your own weeding - so commendable - congratulations on both! :-)

[Kerry Beal]

All gorgeous - but the little marshmallow soldiers call out to me the most!

[psantucc]

Lovely work and presentation, as always, minas6907! Congratulations on candies and wedding.

 

Extra special thanks for carrying the non-chocolate confections banner. I know chocolates are the sexy, and there's a whole lot they can do, but really well made taffy or marshmallow or fudge can be even harder to get.

[Kerry Beal]

Fiddling with my freeze dried cream cheese to make a cheese cake filling - reported on it over here.  

[asadus]

Hiya all,

 

I am new newbie and recently chocolate bug bit me.

Here is my first attempt.

So far what I have learnt (from internet) is that chocolate needs tempering and pouring in shiny

object in order to get a gloss finish.

Instead of buying expensive chocolate moulds I improvised and used empty egg tray.

Here is the finish result.

 

Please post your reviews.

 

Thanks.

 

[Kerry Beal]

Looks pretty darn good for a first time and using an egg tray in place of a mold.  Looks like you got fairly reasonable temper which is defiantly the first trick to master.  Don't be surprised if your next attempts are more disappointing - it often happens that way - but persistence pays off.  

[asadus]

Thanks Kerry,

Really appricate your comments. I am activly on it and soon will come up something nice to show off.

[Susanne Hindle Kher]

Good luck on your chocolate making adventure. I think the best advice is to be patient and be prepared to make the same recipes over and over again to get them just right and to build your skill. Don't be discouraged by any less-than-perfect batches - it's part of the learning process (this is art and science combined!). Keep posting photos and questions, this is community is extremely supportive and eager to help!  

[curls]

salted pumpkin caramels (inspired by a recipe on Food52)

My first time making them, I think that they are quite tasty!

[rajoress]

Those caramels look delicious! I made black forest truffles from Greweling's Confections at Home. I was looking for something a little sophisticated for a co-worker at the last minute and happened to have everything in the house. They're delicious cold out of the fridge. Thanks for looking!

Ruth

[Quesmoy]

I finally found time to make a small batch of my favorite salted caramels, and I remember why I don’t make them very often.  I like them a little too much, and can’t stop eating them!

[YetiChocolates]

Here's a couple of my confections I've been working on:

 

 

 

Top one is the new design for my "Irish Kiss" a milk chocolate Irish creme liqueur and the bottom one is a test batch for a friend of a milk chocolate peanut butter bar.  Was playing around with the spraying "splatter" technique off on off-set spatula we learned while in Vegas, as well as the bottom layer of the bar is an alteration from the "oat crunch" we learned in the Master's class.  That part is still a work in progress...

[keychris]

 

'tis the season, and all that. Time to start a collection of reindeer to pull a sleigh...

[Darienne]

Love the reindeer.  Is it milk chocolate?  From a two piece mold?

[keychris]

he's a milk chocolate reindeer, yes it's just a cheap silicon mould (perhaps for gingerbread), you then just put it together

[RobertM]

Yeti...beautiful work!

[keychris]

 

Made him some friends

[jmacnaughtan]

 

Made him some friends

 

I love that.  However, you cannot leave that sleigh empty.  Where's the big guy?

[Tri2Cook]

he's a milk chocolate reindeer, yes it's just a cheap silicon mould (perhaps for gingerbread), you then just put it together

Is that mold available online somewhere? I tried every variation I could think of in google and got nothing.

 

[keychris]

Is that mold available online somewhere? I tried every variation I could think of in google and got nothing.

 

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/18208/Santas-Sleigh-Mould

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lakeland-Sleigh-Reindeer-Christmas-Chocolate/dp/B00F46BZOK

 

"lakeland santa's sleigh" should get you enough hits to start with

[Kerry Beal]

Doesn't look like they ship to Canada or the US.  We might have to use some connections in the UK to get some sent.

[keychris]

Who would have thought that reindeer and sleigh would be so popular? I've already had orders for 6 of them! That's 1kg for each... better go get some more chocolate.

 

Had this mould delivered all the way from the US of A a few days ago - even with the exchange rate and postage, cheaper than moulds here in Australia. Ridiculous.

 

[lapin d'or]

Doesn't look like they ship to Canada or the US.  We might have to use some connections in the UK to get some sent.

Let me know if I can help, pretty sure this is just a silicone mould, not polycarbonate.

[keychris]

Let me know if I can help, pretty sure this is just a silicone mould, not polycarbonate.

 

yup, silicone