Candy Making Day

For the last few years, we have been having a candy making day with my mom. It's so much easier to bake cookies at her house since she has a double oven! She also has a nice cool garage by the kitchen to help the candy set faster. And...let's face it, we love spending time with grandma! The kids all look forward to this day! We did some experimenting the first year with some new recipes, but now we have a pretty set list of what we make. Gary told me I needed to cut down on what we made because we end up eating way too much sugar. So I asked everyone in the family what their favorite treat was...needless to say, they all picked something different. So, we still made a ton of candy! This picture is of Chocolate Billionaires. They taste kind of like a 100Grand bar. They have a caramel center with rice krispy cereal and then they are dipped in chocolate. Super good! Gary picked these and divinity as his must-haves!

These are pecan caramels. These are Chelsey's all-time favorite treat...she begs and begs to make sure we make these caramels. They are pretty yummy! They are nice and soft, but they take FOREVER to cook! We did two batches this year because one just isn't enough!

Braquel and Mikayla both demanded our Marbled Roca. It has toasted almonds, a toffee base, and then chocolate and white chocolate swirled on the top. They are to die for! I know this picture looks kind of gross, but I had just swirled the two chocolates. When it sets up and you crack into pieces, it is like eating a piece of heaven! We try to be stingy with this on our Christmas plates we take to the neighbors because we really want to keep it all for ourselves!