Fun with chocolate

For each guest at my husband's and my 10 year anniversary party, we made little boxes with a CD stuck to the inside of the lid and then three chocolates in the bottom of the box.

Ryan and I picked out the paper and recorded the song. Evan gave us the boxes and the CD-in-a-box idea.


Juliet and I made lots and lots of chocolate. Included were an Earl Grey truffle (the molded one) a Lavendar "explosion" (the rolled one), and a chocolate covered homemade marshmallow.


I think they turned out very well though tempering chocolate is contrary to my basic nature.

Homemade "Moose Munch"

My husband is a huge fan of Harry and David's Moose Munch. I'll admit, it's pretty great.

For tomorrow's Oscar party, I decided that one thing I wanted to try was making my own version of that delectable treat.

For the base (caramel popcorn) I followed this recipe from Karen DeMasco as published in Fine Cooking. (Wow, online they even have a video!)


Then I made a "salad" with equal parts of mini-marshmallows, broken bits of graham crackers, roasted almonds, and caramel popcorn. I melted some coating chocolate and dipped clumps of the goodies randomly, cooled them on aluminium foil, and mixed the clumps in with the corn.



The result is so good it might break some local laws.