Monday, December 19, 2011

Making Candy


On Saturday, December 10th, Mom and I went over to Grandma's house to make our family's candy recipes. We made white and chocolate fudge, pecan chew, date balls, peanut clusters, and dipped pretzels. That wasn't even close to everything that was on our list, but what we accomplished took ALL. DAY. It was SO MUCH fun and the candy turned out delish. There were a couple mishaps, including doubling a double batch of fudge, which ended up to be a very, very full pot, as I'm sure you can imagine. That resulted in Grandma carrying a boiling pot across the kitchen to the sink. (She and Mom are inspecting what could be salvaged in the upper right corner of the collage...) Secondly, Natalie and I were entrusted with Grandma's favorite - the date balls. Well, they ended up ruined. And then modified. We added too much salt and then put the rice krispies in before the butter mixture was cool enough, and Grandma's face was priceless when she tried to roll it into balls. She looked at us like we were nuts! We ended up adding marshmallow fluff until it was sticky enough to form into some type of sphere. We called them Natalie's Modified Salty Date Balls. (They were also very large, Grandma pointed out. More like a baseball than a golf ball. Haha!) My favorite is Pecan Chew, and it turned out perfectly....mainly because Mom did that one all by herself. :)
We had such a great day, laughing, talking, being girly (except Beckett - he got guy time with Uncle Scott -including the Great Uncle Scott Naptime Hold, bottom left - and Dad), and eating WAY too much candy.

I love to think about Grandma making the same recipes when she was a little girl. It's a wonderful tradition I want to continue forever.


PS: Gramps stopped by for a little guy time with Beckett. He loves ceiling fans:

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