What's your Valentine's story?
This morning I woke up to post-it notes all over the kitchen, bathroom, living room and everywhere else I looked. Each one had a sweet message written to me about why I was loved ♥ It eventually led me to a card and Valentine's hedgehog stuffie holding a heart! I felt very special and loved today ♥
For my boys I decided to make some raw chocolates, which I have not made in quite some time. You can find the recipe I used for the chocolate here. The chocolate really works well in the molds and it does not take long before they are done setting. This time around I wanted to do something a little different, so I decided to try out different fillings.
~Chocolate Strawberry Smooches
~Chocolate Almond Kissables
~Chocolate Peanut Butter Love Bites
I basically poured a little bit of chocolate into each plastic mold, covering the sides and then threw it in the freezer. Once the chocolate hardened I spooned in a bit of whatever filling and back into the freezer it went. After a few minutes I pulled the chocolates out of the freezer and poured more chocolate on top of the filling to eventually fill the mold.
<---Here is the Chocolate Peanut Butter Love Bites ready for more chocolate to be poured on top!
You may have noticed the Coconut, almond and date mix in the ingredients photo, this was used for the truffles. I couldn't resist making truffles...rich, soft and delicious!
This recipe is basically the same as the one above, I just add about 1/2 cup more cacao powder. This seems to give it a thicker consistency, perfect for rolling out truffles.
The finale, a few pieces of each in a heart shape container for my sweethearts ♥
10 comments:
looks delicious!
Thank you Bitt! It was a deliciously yummy day :)
You made all of those?! They look store-bought they're so perfect! And the flavors and fillings and rolling ingredients! I'm drooling... I think we need to host a trade... ;)
YUM!
Lori, we should totally host a trade, that would be so fun! :) And I blame(in a good way) how they look on the plastic molds I used. heehee :D
Wow, what a fun day! Happy belated to you girl! Cliff has done that before too..posting notes all over! Your blog is coming along so nicely!
Now, will ya pass me a couple of those goodies!
Warm blessings!
It's settled then! Trade it is. ;) If you're up for it. (Cause oh yeah, I am!)
What would you like to trade??? I'll make anything.
Awesome - yummy! How do you keep the chocolate to stay on the sides of the mold, instead of smooshing on down? These look so easy, I think I can make them. All I need are the molds. Thank you for the great and simple idea!
Pam, That is so sweet that Cliff has done the post-it note messages for you too! Such a sweet gesture :D *passes you some chocolates* Happy belated Valentines! :)
Blessedmama, The molds make it super easy to do! For the peanut butter cups I used my son's baby spoon to make sure the sides and base were covered and then quickly put it in the freezer. I did the same for the strawberry chocolates too :) After they hardened I just filled each mold up completly with chocolate and it worked out perfectly! :)
Lori, I've been giving the trade some thought..hmm I've come up with Energy bars..or some sort of raw, veggie, deliciously yummy bar or a homemade granola mix?
What do you think? I'm up for making anything too! I thought about sending the choclates but sadly they melt pretty fast, by the time they get to you they would be smooshy, melty mess lol :D
Thanks for answering my question!
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