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I just finished my Easter candy for tomorrow, as well as photographing it for the Nelyo's Confections website. Whew. So--in the ten minutes that I have before friends arrive for dinner--I give to you: candy spam!
These are my projects of the past two months: Valentine's Day, a birthday gift, and Easter. The pictures will, of course, be fixed and doctored in Photoshop before being ready for our website; this is simply their rawest form. So kindly ignore my kitchen in the background. :)
Milk chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day, each decorated in a different style.
A solid chocolate birthday gift tag. Completely edible, yes! :)
The finished product: A birthday gift basket for the wife of one of my coworkers, containing about three dozen assorted chocolates, solid chocolate gift tags, and decoration courtesy of Dawn Felagund.
Milk chocolate cremes. Creme filling can be nearly any imaginable flavoring. This time around, I tried mint, vanilla butternut, butter rum, and strawberry.
Easter eggs. Like the chocolate cremes, they can be filled with nearly anything imaginable. These are a mixture of caramels and turtle eggs (that's caramel and pecan).
Milk chocolate Easter bunnies. The carrot is edible too! ;)
The Easter favors I made for family and friends this year, in Chinese-carryout-style boxes with caramel and turtle eggs and milk chocolate Easter bunnies.
Dark chocolate ladybugs. These will eventually be used to garnish my chocolate-raspberry sorbet pie. They can be made as solid chocolate or filled. These particular ladybugs are filled with a chocolate-rum sauce. (The rum is included--not because I am boozehound (really!)--because it keeps the sauce from freezing solid. And it is quite yummy.
Aaaand...Nelyo, our company mascot. Yes, he is named after the Nelyo. But the company is named after the unicorn. ;)
Tomorrow, I will put the pie together and probably pic spam with photos of that too, so be forewarned....
As much as I dislike Easter as a holiday, Easter candy is wonderful to make. It's colorful and leaves a lot of room for creativity; the bunnies and chickies are adorable. And who doesn't love to get candy on Easter?
These are my projects of the past two months: Valentine's Day, a birthday gift, and Easter. The pictures will, of course, be fixed and doctored in Photoshop before being ready for our website; this is simply their rawest form. So kindly ignore my kitchen in the background. :)
Milk chocolate hearts for Valentine's Day, each decorated in a different style.
A solid chocolate birthday gift tag. Completely edible, yes! :)
The finished product: A birthday gift basket for the wife of one of my coworkers, containing about three dozen assorted chocolates, solid chocolate gift tags, and decoration courtesy of Dawn Felagund.
Milk chocolate cremes. Creme filling can be nearly any imaginable flavoring. This time around, I tried mint, vanilla butternut, butter rum, and strawberry.
Easter eggs. Like the chocolate cremes, they can be filled with nearly anything imaginable. These are a mixture of caramels and turtle eggs (that's caramel and pecan).
Milk chocolate Easter bunnies. The carrot is edible too! ;)
The Easter favors I made for family and friends this year, in Chinese-carryout-style boxes with caramel and turtle eggs and milk chocolate Easter bunnies.
Dark chocolate ladybugs. These will eventually be used to garnish my chocolate-raspberry sorbet pie. They can be made as solid chocolate or filled. These particular ladybugs are filled with a chocolate-rum sauce. (The rum is included--not because I am boozehound (really!)--because it keeps the sauce from freezing solid. And it is quite yummy.
Aaaand...Nelyo, our company mascot. Yes, he is named after the Nelyo. But the company is named after the unicorn. ;)
Tomorrow, I will put the pie together and probably pic spam with photos of that too, so be forewarned....
As much as I dislike Easter as a holiday, Easter candy is wonderful to make. It's colorful and leaves a lot of room for creativity; the bunnies and chickies are adorable. And who doesn't love to get candy on Easter?
