Getting ready for tomorrow busy time playing with mini egg boxes, ribbon, chocolates baskets and bunnies creating Easter packages with chocolates. Jozie did a stirling job with me yesterday coating and decorating salted caramels, dairy free caramels, mint, manjari vanilla, olive oil, saffron and cardamom, and her absolute favourite, coffee.
I am very lucky that for the moment as long as she gets a box of her favourites she is happy to work hard and is brilliant at anticipating where the next load of melted chocolate is going!
Raspberry marshmallows ready for a smooth chocolate coating
Raspberry Mallow Pops
The only time I have really enjoyed and scoffed marshmallows was the first time we made s’mores* with my sister and family when on holiday with them in Michigan. Since then, the children have regularly made s’mores here over the bonfire, the living room fire, the BBQ or even the gas hob!
Hence marshmallows came and went for me until we went to Camp Bestival a couple of years ago and I ate freshly made marshmallows with waffles as a birthday treat – what a revaluation they were! Once I worked out that you really did need more than a hand held mixer to successfully make these I had to wait until January this year with the purchase of my first Kenwood Chef to experiment.
The result – vanilla and raspberry marshmallows. We are still testing out how best to eat them – there is compulsory and rigourous testing for new products here! So far, these raspberry mallow-pops are fairly high on the list of great ways to eat a marshmallow.
* For those that don’t know, these are a sandwich of the US equivalent of 2 digestives with a slab of chocolate and toasted marshmallows in the middle. To ease assembly we toast our marshmallows and sandwich them between 2 plain chocolate digestives. It is worrying how many a 12 year old can eat!
Almond bites, a firm favourite, made and ready to go!
Buttons and double dipped orange slices ready for ribbon and labels.
BIG buttons!
It is nearly here, that great chocolate festival otherwise known as Easter. As you will see from the photos I am in the middle of production and packaging for my Easter event
When – Wednesday 1st April from 6.00pm – 8.30pm
Where – usual place, 52 Hurst Rise Road, Cumnor Hill, OX2 9HQ
Everyone welcome to come and taste old favourites and new products with a cup of tea, or even a glass of wine!
