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12 Days of Homemade Christmas: Sea Salt Caramels with Vanilla Bean

December 2, 2010

These are my husband’s absolute, hands-down, no-contest favorite Christmas goodie. They’re also my favorite non-chocolate Christmas goodie. And they’re absolutely delicious: bite-sized, rich, buttery caramels studded with pretty flecks of vanilla bean. They’re sweet, buttery, and salty all at the same time. And addicting. Betcha can’t eat just 5. Every year, we make a few [...]

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Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas

December 1, 2010
Swirly Chocolate-Peppermint Bark

The 12 Days of Homemade Christmas 2010 Looking for recipes for your Christmas goodie baskets? We’ve got 12 Days of Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas coming your way! Up first? A recipe for Swirled Chocolate Peppermint Bark. The contrast is beautiful. 3 pounds total of white and dark chocolates, swirled together, and topped with crushed peppermint [...]

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Sea Salt Caramels with Vanilla Bean

December 21, 2008

Armed with lessons learned from last Christmas, I made two batches of Sea Salt Caramels this year, stopping a few degrees short of what the original recipe stated because last year’s candies set up harder than I would have liked. One batch is destined to be dipped in dark chocolate and the other destined to [...]

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Swirled Peppermint Bark

December 17, 2008

I fear working with white chocolate the way some others fear working with yeast. Chocolate?! I’ve never had a problem with chocolate. Every chocolate [fill in the blank] I’ve ever made has always turned out. Lucky you After losing more white chocolate to seizing than I care to admit, I almost completely stopped using it. [...]

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Homemade Caramel Sauce

January 22, 2008
Salted Vanilla Bean Caramel Sauce

As I was anxiously watching the third batch of Fleur de Sel Caramel bubble itself up to soft-ball stage, I was sending prayer after prayer up the stainless steel chimney hood to the Gourmet Gods that the caramel would set properly. This was my third attempt. What if the caramel didn’t set up? [Light bulb [...]

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Fleur de Sel Caramels

January 3, 2008
Fleur de Sel Caramel

Sometimes just rendering a dish inedible is taking the easy way out. If you’re heart was really in it, you’d ruin the the dish containing the fancy, hard-to-find European butter, the ridiculously expensive French salt, and the pan in which you made the dish. Round 1: [Click. Click-click-click. Click.] I was far too engrossed with [...]

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