Sweets for my Sweets!

I've been making sweets! 

Laura, you should try some of these as your craft a month thing! 

I have made:

• Peppermint, orange, cherry and strawberry creams
• Honeycomb
• Chocolate fudge
• Chocolate cherry royales (basically a version of rocky road/tiffin)

The creams are a recipe from Emmie (my boyfriend's sister) which I fell in love with over Christmas. 

You need: One egg white, 425g icing sugar, 1tsp flavouring of your choice and colour if you want to add it. 

top-bottom: strawberry, cherry, orange.

 

 

 

 

 

 

peppermint creams

Whisk the egg white to stiff peaks, add the sieved icing sugar, flavour and colour. Mix it, until it forms a ball (I ended up using my hands because I use gel colours and they're easier to mix in when you use your fingers). Then knead the ball until it makes a smooth paste and your colour is evenly mixed. Put the ball onto an icing sugared surface and roll it out. Cut with pastry cutters/fondant cutters of your choice (I used a flower shape for the orange creams, hearts for the cherry.

 

Emmie used stars for her peppermint creams) When they're cut, put them onto a foil covered board/tray and put in the fridge overnight. Once they've been in the fridge overnight you can take them out and present them however you like. Emmie put hers in jam jars, I've wrapped some in tissue and put them in a handmade box. Up to you! You can also decorate them at the point where you've just cut them out, you can add sugar cake decorations or impress a pattern into them by gently rolling a textured item over them or imprinting with something that will leave a nice design (some felt pens lids are quite good as they leave a star/flower design which is very cute). You can also coat them in chocolate, either entirely or just dip half in the chocolate. Very gourmet! 

I also made honeycomb. I used this recipe:

all recipes simple honeycomb

I think I overcooked the sugar and golden syrup slightly so it caught a little bit, just went a little darker than I thought it should be. It tastes lovely though! It is quick, uses very few recipes and it really is simple! 

 

When I broke my honeycomb up into smaller pieces, I had some crumbs left over so I thought "waste not, want not" and put them into a small jar. I'm sure I'll find a use for them at some point, either as an ice cream (or Frozen yoghurt) topping or something to add to some cake mix or hot chocolate!

I used this recipe for my fudge: 

elisa's famous fudge

I went through a few different recipes and settled on this one because it doesn't require a sugar thermometer. People were also saying (in the comments) how simple it was and how they'd changed the ingredients etc. I didn't include the marshmallows or pecans. I put a few cherries in instead, as I had left overs from another recipe I was doing. 

I used chocolate cherry royales for my final recipe. This recipe says to make mall balls of the biscuit and condensed milk mix but mine didn't seem to want to do that, so I spread it out into one big sheet on a tray. I then spread the chocolate on top. It looks more like a refrigerator cake but it looks quite nice. I'll reserve judgement for now.

I'll be taking these with me to Kyla's tomorrow and I will try to remember to take pictures of them when they're all cut up and on plates etc before we eat them!