Cherries

Practice starts soon. I'll be making chocolate covered cherries for Valentines day.

I made 3 jars of cherries. One has sweet cherries in brandy, one sweet cherries in cherry vodka, and on the far right is sour cherries in brandy. Each has a cup of sugar added.

I'm thinking until they are ready I would practice on some purchased candied fruit .

done for the night.

Ellen finished packaging at midnight.

They look really nice!

More pictures than text.

I made an order of Pretzels and potato chips from a request.

The potato chips messed with my cocoa butter but I got it done. I would rather not do that again because now I have some chocolate with a weird tempering degree. Eutectics is very important in chocolate and confections. It's the way fats respond to temperature when one fat is mixed with another. On with the order of the day. Pictures.

more new picts

Packaging night. These are the caramel boxes ready to go.

This is an order for chocolate covered pretzels and potato chips. It's the first time I've had this and it's pretty good! The small square ones are the peanut butter filled ones. I'll add stripes to the rods, bows, and chips tomorrow.

new flavor

I tried to replicate a childhood favorite. Cream sickle.
The white vanilla is on the outside and the orange is the center.
That's the piping bag with the leftover ganache. There is just a slight bit of alcohol in it it form the liqueur. The center is very soft right now. It should firm up slightly but not too much.

a few more picts

The "Espresso love" came out very nice!

The candy cane dark tondo's are popular so I made more

This is the shell for the mint. I'll fill it tomorrow.

leftovers!

I decided to use the leftover ganache used for the normal fillings. I have some pyramid molds I've been wanting to use. They are really big! Ellen put a penny next to them. They all have different fillings so I'm thinking of calling them the "mystery of the pyramids".