I realized this year that I fricken love Valentines day. Not because of the whole being married thing, but I like making Valentines and stupid crap like that. I know, I am such a girl. I made Valentines for some (if you didn't get one, notice I said SOME, not ALL) of my favorite people. I WISH I took pictures of them but I forgot :( So if you are one of those special few, please take a pic and email it to me so I can blog about it. Thanks!
Not only do I love making homemade valentines, but I put on my
black and white nail stickers and painted a red heart on my ring fingers. AND I plan on wearing my red pants to work. GET OUTTA HERE!- you say. No I will not! It's Valentines Day y'all!
And to top of my Valentines Day madness I wanted to make my coworkers (PS: my spellcheck just asked if I meant to write "cowpunchers", haha!) some sort of sweet treat. So here is a blog post about the awesome treats I made for my team at work.
When I was thinking about what to make them. I didn't want to do the normal cookies and cupcakes (cause I do that kinda often) so I thought hey! why not make candy molds like my mom used to do! So I went out and bought a few more molds and some chocolate and vanilla wafers. I am not all high tech when it comes to making molds so do judge my techniques (and this is going to be more of a "how I did it" instead of a "look what I did!" post):
Start off with whichever flavor you want and melt it in a bowl. Only heat it 30 seconds at a time in the microwave, stir and repeat until it is completely melted. Also, if you are adding food coloring, don't buy the gel food coloring. It makes your candy stick together and you cant pour it into the molds. So if you want a deep, rich color, just buy the pre-colored wafers (sold at places like Wal-Mart, Michaels and AC Moore)
Pour into the molds. Don't worry about it looking messy (like mine) because it dries and you can flick it off really easily before your next pour.
Once you pour it into the mold, put it in the freezer (just so they harden faster)
Here is a pink version of one of the above molds after is is hardened. So cute!
Here is the halfway point for me, hearts and suckers (I did not show the sucker molds, sorry. Its the same thing only with sticks that you place in the mold BEFORE the chocolate)
Next I wanted to add chocolate covered pretzels. So I took an idea from
Pintrest and modified it with what we had at home:
M&Ms
But you cant use all the colors! It's Valentines Day! So I segregated all the reds from the group
I had pretzels, M&Ms and chocolate AKA: CHOCOLATE COVERED PRETZELS TOPPED WITH AN M&M
I am fully aware they look a little "Christmas-y" but I didn't have pink, okay?!? So I added silver sprinkles. Probably not the best idea.
Yes, I used chopsticks to hold the pretzels as I dipped them, then I placed them on wax paper, put an M &M on top and then sprinkles. Then, let them mo-fos dry!
Holy Cowpunchers! They turned out yummy, yes I would know.
So I took all the treats I made and created Valentine goodie bags for the ladies at my work. They looked like-a-dis:
Happy Valentines Day! I wish I could send you all some of these yummy desserts! But alas, I cannot so make some yo-self! Love you!
Peace, love and RED PANTS!
