My girlfriend and I are putting together several holiday treat filled baskets for Christmas gifts. So far we are making the following:Cranberry Almond Biscotti, Chocolate-covered Oreo cookie "suckers" and creamy Lemon bars.
We would really like to make the baskets with a variety of contrasting flavors and textures.
Can anyone suggest anything else…ESPECIALLY a good and simple hard candy recipe. Good ideas for how to "dress up" classic(cookie sheet style) hard candies would also be of great help.
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This is a wonderful christmas candy-semi hard it would be wonderful in your collection
Butterscotch Pralines
makes about 36
1 boxbutterscotch pudding mix
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups pecans, chopped
Place all ingedrents in large sauce pan (expect for pecans)
Mix well, bring to boil
Stirring occosional, cook to tempature reaches 234o F
Add pecans
Beat vigorously until mixture is creamy and starts to thicken
Quickly drop by teaspoon on to wax paper.
Butterscotch drops
a.Melt a bag of butterscotch chips in double boiler.
b.Mix cornflakes or Chinese noodles in (enough to absorb and cover)
c. Drop teaspoon size on wax paper
Nut Clusters are pretty much the same idea.
Turtles
a.Buy mini pretzels and spread some out flat on a cookie sheet
b.unwrap and put a rolo on each pretzel
c.place in oven for around 5 min…until the chocolate has just started melting
d.press a walnut into each rolo
Hope these help…they are my favorite candy recipes plus they are real easy too!