Today, I made candy for the first time. Evin's grandma always makes a delicious assortment of candies for holidays and I've taken quite a liking to her homemade chocolate peanut butter cups (she sends them to Evin in the mail and I snatch them up). Since I couldn't go up to her house over winter break to visit (/learn how to make these delicious treats), she did the next best thing for me: created a cute little gift package containing everything I'd need to recreate them myself. This morning I gave it a shot. The recipe was rather simple, but putting together all those peanut butter cups was time consuming. SO worth it, though!
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| (the only thing Evin's grandma didn't send was the butter, of course) |
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| pre-powdered sugar |
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| post-powdered sugar |
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| My ghetto double boiler--Evin doesn't have any glass bowls so we had to make do. It worked out alright! |
This being my first time, I didn't really know how much peanut butter to put in each cup and as a result, I had a LOT of filling left over. Some of the candies look a little silly, but the good news is I stuck the filling in the fridge for just in case I decide to buy more chocolate and make more peanut butter cups :)
I want one! That's so cute of his grandma to send you ingredients and the recipe and everything!
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