Homemade marshmallows drizzled with chocolate and sprinkled with toasted almonds and toffee bits. Yum.
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December 2008
I am doing some prep for the party tonight. We have a few folks coming over around 8pm so I’m putting together a few snacky things. My friends usually bring more snacks and drinks so I am trying to keep it simple so we don’t end up with 3 times as much food as we need.
I made marshmallows last night and plan to sprinkle some of then almonds and then drizzle it with chocolate. A few more of the homemade marshmallows made it into a batch of brownies that are cooling in the pan as I type…
Not very pretty at the moment, but I bet they will be prettier cut up with the marshmallow showing through against the dark chocolate brownie. Mmm.
On the non-sweet side of things I was thinking easy stuff like sliced salami and cheese and crudites (celery, carrots, etc) with hummus or something. My challenge when prepping for a party is keeping it simple enough… I tend to go overboard… way, way overboard :)
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Inside the boxes, I packed 2 types of caramel (the cinnamon ones from round 1 and then I took round 2 and dipped it in chocolate), red velvet cake bon-bons (recipe from Bakerella) and candied citrus peel…
A close up of the red velvet cake balls:
And the candied citrus peel:
For the goodie bags, I made “cranberry bliss bars” (a la Starbucks) using this recipe:
And oatmeal chocolate chip cookies using this recipe:
And now that Christmas is over, I am turning my attention to our upcoming New Year’s party and the possibilities for all sorts of goodies (remember the cupcake decorating kit?…)
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My kitchen was busy last week… pumping out all sorts of goodies made with butter, sugar, and chocolate. I’ve delivered 1 treat pack and plan to deliver 1 more tonight… The treat packs include a little box and a bag:
I’ll show you what’s inside after they are all delivered :D …
Here’s last year’s packs:
It included a heat-therapy-lavender-scented-rice-pack-thingie made using this Sew, Mama, Sew tutorial and a ton of cookies (brownies topped with marshmallows, rosemary-cheese “cookies”, raspberry thumbprints, etc etc etc). It was a big hit. This year, I procrastinated so much I did not get to do a sewing project gift, but I’ve been trying to be greener and edible gifts are definitely “green” (though not as friendly to the waistline).
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So much left to do… so little time.
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