Homemade Easter Candy and a Spring Blog Walk

Welcome to A Spring Blog Walk

We now have 11 Blogs participating and we are so excited to share our fun posts with you.

Linda from Crafts Ala Mode is sharing Butterflies for Spring

Debi from Adorned From Above - Fun Easter Candy Recipes

Myrna and Joye from The Busy Bees are sharing 10 S.O.S (Salads of Spring) Ideas

Marci from Stone Cottage Adventures With A Garden Tour

 Kathy from  Life On Lakeshore Drive is sharing Spring Fever Craft Ideas

Nichi from The Mandatory Mooch sharing her Blooming Oreo Desert

Diana From Diana Rambles - Easter Candy Bark

Evelyn from My Turn For Us - Spring is Baby Goats

Lorraine from Cooking For The Seven Dwarfs Chocolate Cupcake With Blackberry Frosting

Deby from So Sew Easy With My Cute Spring and Easter Sewing Ideas

Tammy from One More Time Events With Easter Moss Centerpiece and Wreath

The  Spring Blog Walk will be in the sidebar of each blog starting March 15th for 1 month.

We hope you take a walk on through each post and see what fun things are happening out there.

If you would like to participate in our next Blog Walk
send one of us an email and we will add you to the list.
Linda, Debi, Myrna, Joye, Marci, Kathy, Nichi, Diana, Evelyn, Lorraine, Deby, and Tammy

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Charly and I had so much fun getting these 5 Homemade Easter Candies ready for all of you for the Spring Blog Walk.  Our family and friends certainly reaped the benefits of all of this creativity also.  They have had tons of great snacks and candy.  Today we are sharing our Homemade Peeps, Jumbo Homemade Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut Butter Truffles, Almond Clusters, and Chocolate and Vanilla Dipped Cookies.   Now, on to the recipes

Homemade Peeps

I had never made marshmallows before now, so I thought this was going to be really hard.  Boy, was I wrong.  Marshmallow are really easy.  This recipe came from 52 Kitchen Adventures - Homemade Marshmallow Peeps

Ingredients: 

1/3 cup water

1 cup ultra fine sugar

1/4 cup water 

1 packet gelatin

colored sanding sugar

candy thermometer

Wilton silicone bunny mold (Michaels)

Directions:

Spray nonstick cooking spray in your mold and set aside.

In a mixing bow for a mixer pour 1/4 cup water and sprinkle gelatin over the top of the water.

In a saucepan put 1/3 cup water and 1 cup ultra fine sugar. Stir.

Heat over medium heat stirring until the sugar has dissolved.  

Once the sugar heat the sugar water to 235 to 240 degrees.  (Soft Ball)

Then turn on mixer and carefully pour the hot syrup into the bowl, taking care not to get it on the sides of the mixer or the mixer paddle.

Mix on medium low for a minute or two, until mixed with the gelatin.

Then turn mixer to medium high and beat for about 11 minutes, until the marshmallow has stiff peaks.

Next put the marshmallow into a ziploc bag and cut off a small piece of the corner of the bag.

Gently squirt the marshmallow into each of the molds, making sure that you don't overfill the molds.  You want your marshmallow to lay flat.

I had some extra marshmallow in the bag still and I just piped it onto a cookie sheet to look like peeps.

Let the marshmallow set up in the molds for a few minutes.

In the meantime pour your sanding sugar on plates so that you can  dip you peeps into the different colors.

Pop your peeps out of the mold and put in the sanding sugar.  I set them in the sugar on  one side and then turned them over and did the other side and pushed the sugar up around the sides and ears of the peeps.

Set on a serving platter or put into candy bags.

Makes 24 bunnies and 4 peeps

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Jumbo Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Ingredients:

1/3 cup Peanut Butter

3/4 cup powder sugar

1/8 tsp salt

1 TB butter (softened)

4 cup Milk Chocolate Chips

1 TB Coconut oil

12 muffin cup liners

Directions:

Put muffin liners in 12 muffin cups

Mix peanut butter, powdered sugar, salt, and butter in a mixer until smooth.  Set aside.

Next, put chocolate chips and coconut oil in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 1/2 minutes to melt the chocolate.

Put chocolate in a pastry bag or a ziploc bag and cut a corner and pipe chocolate into the bottom of the muffin liners.  

Next, make 12 patties out of the peanut butter and put it on top of the chocolate.

Then pipe the rest of your melted chocolate over the peanut butter.

Put muffin pan in refrigerator to help set chocolate.

Makes 12 Jumbo Peanut Butter Cups

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Peanut Butter Truffles

Ingredients:

1/3 cup Peanut Butter

3/4 cup powder sugar

1/8 tsp salt

1 TB butter (softened)

1 12 oz bag milk chocolate chips

20 1 inch candy liners

Directions:

Put candy liners into the cups of a mini muffin tin.

Mix peanut butter, powdered sugar, salt, and butter in a mixer until smooth.  Set aside.

Next, put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 1/2 minutes to melt the chocolate.

Roll peanut butter into 20 balls and drop into chocolate 1 at a time. Use a spoon to remove chocolate covered ball and place in a candy liner.

Add additional chocolate if necessary

Set in refrigerator.

Makes 20 Peanut Butter Truffles

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Almond Clusters

Ingredients:

2 cups almonds

12 oz milk chocolate chips

4 oz vanilla blue Wilton's Candy Melt

4 oz vanilla pink Wilton's Candy Melt

9 muffin cup liners

Directions:

Put muffin cup liners into  9 muffin cups

Next, put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 1/2 minutes to melt the chocolate.

Spoon into 9 muffin cup liners

Then, melt Wilton's Blue Vanilla Candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 minute and 10 seconds to melt the candy.

Drizzle over the Almond Clusters.

Repeat with the Pink Candy Melts

Let harden and serve.

Makes 9 Almond Clusters.

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Chocolate Dipped Cookies

Ingredients:

20 Lorna Doone's Shorebread Cookies

20 Biscoff Cookies

12 oz milk chocolate chips

4 oz vanilla blue Wilton's Candy Melt

4 oz vanilla pink Wilton's Candy Melt

8 muffin liners

Directions:

Put chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 1/2 minutes to melt the chocolate.

Then dip each cookie in the chocolate and lay on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.

Then, melt Wilton's Blue Vanilla Candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt for 30 second intervals, stirring every 30 seconds.  It should take about 1 minute and 10 seconds to melt the candy.

Drizzle over the cookies

Repeat with the Pink Candy Melts

Let harden and put in muffin cup liners to serve.

Makes 40 Chocolate Dipped Cookies.

We hope that you enjoy these recipes and that they give you lots of ideas for Homemade Easter Candy.  We also hope that you have fun at our Spring Blog Hop.

We always love hearing from you.

Enjoy!!!

Debi

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