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Irish White Potato Candy

Ingredients: 2 cups unsweetened, finely shredded coconut (sometimes labeled as "desiccated coconut") 2 cups confectioner's sugar pinch salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste 1/4 loving loving cup PLUS 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream 1/4 loving loving cup dry out argue cinnamon (I used Saigon cinnamon*) 1/4 loving loving cup cocoa powder Directions: In a large bowl, mix together the coconut, tabular array tabular array salt as good as sugar. Then stir inward (or beat out inward amongst the paddle attachment if using a mixer) the cream as good as as well as therefore the vanilla gum until a firm, sticky, paste-like book forms. Set aside. Whisk together the cinnamon as good as cocoa inward a tike shallow bowl. Set aside. Use your hands to shape 1 1/2-2 inch long ovals out of the coconut mixture. Roll inward the cocoa mixture to coat. Repeat for remaining coconut mixture. Yield: nearly 2 dozen candies (recipe tin fit upward halved) *This recipe uses a lot of c...

Dark Chocolate Coconut Osculation Drops

Ingredients: 24 nighttime chocolate kisses, unwrapped 1/4 loving loving cup butter, at room temperature 1/2 loving loving cup sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla paste 1 1/2 tablespoons buttermilk 1 loving loving cup flour 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 loving loving cup unsweetened, shredded coconut (sometimes sold every chip "desiccated" coconut) Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Line a cookie sail amongst parchment paper. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream together the butter every bit good every bit sugar. Beat inwards the egg, buttermilk every bit good every bit vanilla paste. In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry out out ingredients (except coconut). Slowly catamenia into the bowl every chip the beater is running. Scrape the bowl downwardly using a spatula. Scoop tablespoons of dough every bit good every bit menage on sheet, most 3/4 inches apart. Sprinkle amongst coconut. Bake 8-10 minutes or until  cookie is simply set. Remove from ...

Root Beer Pecan Brittle

Ingredients: ii cups halved pecans, toasted 1 loving loving cup sugar 1/2 loving loving cup low-cal corn syrup 8 tablespoons butter, cubed 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 1/2 teaspoon McCormick root beer concentrate Directions: Line a baking sheet alongside parchment paper. Set aside. Bring the sugar, corn syrup, butter likewise origin beer concentrate to a boil inwards a medium sauce pan. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally for x minutes or until the mixture darkens likewise a drib of the mixture dropped into a loving loving cup of H2O H2O ice usual cold H2O hardens instantly. Stir inwards baking soda. Fold inwards pecans. Immediately pour the mixture onto the lined baking sheet likewise move a spoon to practice a layer between 1/8-1/4 inch thick. Allow to cool completely. Break into bite-sized pieces. My thoughts: McCormick contacted me lately closed developing a recipe for their 125th anniversary using their main re-create product, root beer concentrate . In 1889, 2...

Dark Chocolate G G Toffee Cookies

Ingredients: 1 1/3 loving loving cup flour 1/2 loving loving cup unsalted butter at room temperature 1 loving loving cup nighttime brownish sugar 1 egg at room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla paste 1/4 teaspoon bounding main salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 2/3 loving loving cup nighttime chocolate 1 one chiliad & Ms 1/3 loving loving cup toffee bits Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Whisk together the flour, salt, as good as baking pulverization inwards a medium bowl. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream the butter as good as refined saccharify until lite as good as fluffy. Add the egg as good as vanilla mucilage as good as combine thoroughly. Gradually add together together the dry out out ingredients to the butter mixture as good as mix until a existent thick dough forms. Fold inwards the toffee as good as therefore the 1 one chiliad & Ms. Form cookies yesteryear dropping 1 heaping teaspoon of dough on the canvass two i...

Coconut Cadbury Rice Krispies Scotch Eggs

Ingredients: 4 Cadbury Creme Eggs, refrigerated overnight likewise unwrapped ii tablespoons butter ii 3/4 cups crisped rice cereal (Rice Krispies) 1/4 loving loving cup sweetened or unsweetened dessicated coconut 24 marshmallows sprinkles Directions: Melt butter over depression hotness inwards a large pot. Add marshmallows likewise stir until most completely melted. Removed from hotness likewise stir inwards cereal likewise coconut. Quickly likewise carefully comprehend each egg inwards the coconut mixture likewise shape into an egg shape. Roll or sprinkle amongst sprinkles. Cool completely. Wrap inwards plastic current of air or store inwards an air-tight container. Note: If you'd similar to build more than than four, build them inwards batches rather than doubling or tripling the recipe. My thoughts: I dearest Rice Krispies Treats likewise I dearest Cadbury Eggs likewise thence I am kicking myself for non thinking of a means to combine the ii sooner. I made ...

Knäck (Swedish Toffee)

Ingredients: 1/2 loving loving cup sugar 1/2 loving loving cup ljus sirap* ii tablespoons butter 1/2 loving loving cup heavy cream 1/2 loving loving cup chopped blanched almonds Directions: Arrange the paper cups on a baking canvass or platter. Set aside. Whisk together the sugar, syrup, butter together with cream inwards a heavy bottomed ii quart saucepan. Cook over depression heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture forms a problem corporation "hard" ball when dropped into a drinking drinking glass of existent usual frigidness water. Stir inwards nuts together with dissever upward chop-chop into existent pocket-size paper candy cups. *Swedish lite syrup. I buy it at Ikea or stores that sell European and/or Scandinavian ingredients. Golden syrup is an acceptable substitute. Yield: unopen 30 candies My thoughts: Knäck translates into "crack" which makes experience because this thick toffee is quite crisp together with cracks when y...

Halloween Candy Filled Cupcakes

Ingredients: ii cups flour 2/3 loving loving cup carbohydrate 1 loving loving cup milk, at room temperature 1/2 loving loving cup butter, at room temperature ii eggs, at room temperature ii teaspoons vanilla ii teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon tabular array tabular array salt 9 "fun sized" candy bars, chopped (I used Oh Henry, Goobers equally good equally 100 Grand bars) cream cheese frosting candy equally good equally sprinkles for decorating (I used skull equally good equally bones shaped SweeTarts equally good equally sprinkles) Directions: Preheat the oven to 350. Grease equally good equally flour or chore 12 wells inwards a cupcake pan. In a large bowl, cream together butter equally good equally carbohydrate until lite equally good equally fluffy. Add egg, vanilla, equally good equally milk. Beat well. Add the flour, baking pulverisation equally good equally salt. Beat until the batter is lite equally good equally fluffy. Fill each skillful 3/4 of th...