Christmas and Chocolates -mmm-

This is something that I look forward to EVERY year!!! My whole family has been making hand dipped chocolates since as long as I can remember. The Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving we get together and make the fondant, which is the center of the chocolates.

All the ingredients go on the stove and it cooks until the perfect temperature. Someone usually gets designated as the thermometer watcher. I remember one year I was the watcher and some splattered on my arm.... I started yelling and my sister Jamie ran over and licked it off my arm and burned her tounge! -SERIOUSLY this stuff IS that hard to resist!!! hahahahIt then gets poured onto a cool marble slab so it can set up. OH, if only you could smell just how good this smells! It takes all I have to not blister my tounge off and take a lick!Then the men come into the picture and they stir stir stir stir stir..... Look at how good Dad is, you'd think he was a professional hahaMy favorite is our very own sweet, loving, and beautiful recipe reader... Grandma Jake. She hates her picture taken so she would probably shoot me if she saw this! Love ya Grams!

And here is one of the many completed batches of fondant. This one is mint with pecans... We also have cherry, orange, coconut, vanilla, chocolate, and olympian cream. In a couple of weeks we will roll all of the fondant into little balls and hand dip them all in chocolate! Can't wait, I can't wait!!!