Peanut Butter Balls
1 lb Margarine 2 cups Peanut butter 2-1/2 to 3 pounds confectioner's sugar 3 tsp Vanilla Dipping chocolate
Cream margarine and peanut butter together. Add sugar and vanilla. Mix together and form desired shape. Place on cookie sheets lined with wax paper and place in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. Melt chocolate over low heat. Dip into chocolate. Put back on waxed paper.
Caramels
1/2 can sweetened condensed milk 3 cups whipping cream 2 cups light corn syrup 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla nuts -- optional
Heat over double boiler until warm, set aside: sweetened Condensed Milk and whipping cream. Bring to a boil in a large, heavy sauce pan: corn syrup and sugar Bring to hard boil stage. Add whipping cream mixture at 5 minute intervals keeping mixture boiling all the time, stirring with a wooden spoon. Cook to firm ball stage. Remove from heat and add 1 tsp vanilla and nuts . Pour into a buttered pan, let set for 24 hours, cut and wrap. DO NOT DOUBLE!
Cherry Nut Easter Egg
1/2 c. milk 1/2 stick butter or margarine 2 (3-oz.) pkgs vanilla pudding and filling (not instant) 1 (9-oz.) jar maraschino cherries 1 c. finely chopped pecans or walnuts 1 lb. To 2 lbs. confectioners' sugar 1 lb. chocolate -- melted
Cut cherries in half, and drain well on paper towels. Cook milk, butter and pudding in a medium saucepan on low heat until well blended and thick. Remove from stove and add cherries, nuts and enough sugar to make a thick consistency. Form the mixture into 10 egg shapes with hands coated in butter. Place on waxed paper. Chill several hours until firm. Melt chocolate. Dip egg in chocolate and place back on waxed paper to dry.
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