My Dad Is Willy Wonka

Yesterday, Nina, Molly, Aidan, Emily and I went to my parent's house to make candy. This is becoming an annual event for us as my dad passes on his candy making knowledge to the next generations. Dad has been making candy for many years - maybe 20 or so. He doesn't just do the simple stuff either. His candies look like they belong in a Godiva box. We're not quite up to his level yet, but we're getting there. In another twenty years or so we'll have it done pat.

Each year we learn a new kind of candy. This year we added chocolate covered cherries to our repertoire as they are my all-time favorite type of candy. They turned out reasonably good and I am sure they will taste great. We haven't eaten any yet, as they have to age a little bit. We also made turtles and peanut butter cups yesterday and came home with several pounds of yummy candy. Now would be a really good time to show up at our house for a visit - if you like candy that is.

Anyway, here are the pictures. 

This wasn't taken while we were making candy, but this is what the great candy maker looks like!

Here's Molly putting the fondant in the chocolate covered cherries.

Emily filling the peanut butter cups.

Aidan filling peanut butter cups.

Nina putting the bottoms on the cherries.

Here we are dipping turtles in chocolate.

And here are some of the finished products.  I didn't take a picture of the turtles because they aren't as "pretty".

At the end of the day we ended up with about 80 peanut butter cups, 80 cherries and a whole bunch of turtles!