The Unseasoned Bakers: Chocolate Candies

Sunday 21 September 2014

Chocolate Candies

In order to slightly redeem myself for my absolutely awful swiss roll, I made some chocolate candies. They're not very hard or technical to make but they're very pretty!

I made them for my work colleagues to see us through a night shift and they were yummy! The chocolate was a mix between dark, milk and white. I personally don't like too much dark chocolate so it was predominately milk chocolate based.

I used a standard silicone chocolate mold that I got from Lakeland (http://www.lakeland.co.uk/16442/Silicone-Chocolate-Box-Shapes)

Plus a whole load of sugar decorations from Lakeland and Sainsburys. It was the first time I ever used popping candy and it was laaaavely! Will definitely use it again!

2 comments:

Unknown23 September 2014 at 16:18
Omg! They look gorgeous! �� xx
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Unknown25 September 2014 at 13:51
:) Thank you!!
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As my blog name, The Unseasoned Bakers suggests, I am new to baking. New, inexperienced and far from being a sophisticated baker. I have always liked baking but having a mum who cooks instead of bakes and myself never being that good or dedicated to baking, meant that growing up it didn't happen very often.

So I must admit, I am a love child of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. Yes, The Great British Bake Off has spurred me on and I have thoroughly jumped on that band wagon - much like the rest of the country. In the last year I have bought numerous baking books, watched hundreds of cooking shows plus the last two years of TGBBO and thought 'I can do this!'

However, I am not on this journey alone. My mum will be my fellow baker! My mum is first and foremost a cook and will always be a cook (and her food is bloomin' good!). She has also never really baked so is a novis just like myself. However, mum has an allotment and LOVES home grown food, mum does not have a sweet tooth but I do. So we are a perfect pair! Both ying to our yangs!

So here is our journey on learning to bake. I promise you now, a Dobos Torte is not on the cards but maybe a Victoria sponge will be! Now lets go eat some cake.