I am cookin' now!!

Or maybe I am baking? Maybe candy making is the correct term. Anyway, today I tried my hand at making some candy. Originally I was going to make buckeyes. Some out of white chocolate and some out of milk chocolate. I bought my ingredients, got my recipe, and I was ready to go.

Here are my ingredients, I forgot to take a picture of the peanut butter jar but you all know that the peanut butter is in there, right?

I made sure I had my recipe right at hand. Who remembers the days when we had recipes written on recipe cards? LOL I tried the first recipe for the white chocolate batch and It was too sweet for me, so I found another recipe for the milk chocolate batch. Thank you recipezaar!

This is a picture of the buckeyes before they were dipped in the chocolate.

And here is the white chocolate batch all ready to eat! I used paraffin in this batch, I didnt like it so I used crisco in the milk chocolate ones. I wasnt too successful at making the "eye" of the buckeye, so I just ended up dipping them all the way, and they became "peanut butter balls"! viola! they transformed right before my eyes!

The milk chocolate batch was a little larger than the white chocolate batch and the chocolate was thicker because I used crisco instead of paraffin and not as much of it. I have to admit that they arent as pretty as they could be, but they are pretty tasty!

And for the weight watcher members out there, I also made some "snicker treats". small snicker bar pieces placed in fillo cups and baked to melt the snickers, they are one point each and quite tasty too!

I am trying to get in the holiday spirit, and I am getting closer. I havent baked for the holidays in many years, I think I wil make some weight watcher christmas treats next week!