Lets Exchange Recipes For Favorite Holiday Candies And Gifts
Baking By Cookies4kids Updated 20 Dec 2009 , 6:56pm by bobwonderbuns
Smoked chicken and blackend are on totally different ends of the spectrum in taste, prep, apperance, etc. Burnt sugar is closer to caramelizing, so why someone didn't call it caramelized sugar cake is beyond me.
Well, they do have smoked salts, who knows, they may already have smoked sugars out there. Then again, that's almost what BBQ sauce is--just a couple more ingredients.
yeah yeah yeah, Fiddle..... as if just laughing gets you out of trouble!!! 
Here's my favorite candy-microwave peanut brittle!! I gave it as gifts last year, and everyone LOVED it!! It was very easy, and I had the hardest time EVER keeping it out of my mouth!! 
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Microwave-Oven-Peanut-Brittle/Detail.aspx
Sarsi..That looks good ! Will have to give that a try!
Thanks!!
Goodness, what have I started here?? 
Smoked sugar... I get it! 
Sarsi,
You silly girl. I can't belive you would want to change the name of something as good as blackened chicken.
People grill fruit all the time and sometimes use wood chips in the grill. I think 100 years ago maybe they just didn't call it caramelizing so burnt sugar was appropriate! It's interesting to think how it all got started. Could have been a mistake that turned out great!
People grill fruit all the time and sometimes use wood chips in the grill. I think 100 years ago maybe they just didn't call it caramelizing so burnt sugar was appropriate! It's interesting to think how it all got started. Could have been a mistake that turned out great!
Hey, seriously, think about how many culinary 'greats' started as accidents! That is no lie! Sometimes it's just creativity, but more often than not it's something that gets screwed up and then people go... "Hey... that was good. I'd eat that again on purpose!"
That's how the molten chocolate cake started!
Thats the story behind a pb cup to,Or How pb and choc came together anyway !
This is not an edible cookie recipe, but I let me kids make these every year for Christmas.
Christmas Ornament Dough
1 C Water
1 C Salt
3 C Flour
Knead until smooth ( very long time) Roll out some of the dough about 1/4 in thick. Use floured cookie cutters to make the shape you desire. Cut paper clips in half and push 1/2 into top of each shape to make a hook. Bake on a cookie sheet in 225 degree for 1-1 1/2 hrs. Aftr the cookies are completely cooled, paint them if desired. Let dry, and dip them in a high gloss varnish.
OK you all have never heard the story ( old wifes tale)about how someone mixed some pb and choc together, by adding the wrong ingred? I mean thats the story the two were mixed together by picking up the wrong ingred and everyone fell in love with it . I heard the same story about choc( then pieces ) being added to cookies to then become choc chips ( not left over crumbled pieces) cookies ! How someone aded the little pieces of broke off choc from ( I dont know what ) to cookie dough and it became choc chip cookies ! I dont know how to look that stuff up but there is I guees maybe a legend like that !
And NO I have NOT been hitting the Brandy bottle from my fruit cakes !
Those stories have been around for ever !
I know Im NOT the only gramma aged member here ! 
Im sure somewhere theres someone else thats heard these stories !
Of course you are the only gramma-aged person here! 
Making up such things to tease the younguns... 
tsk, tsk,tsk - So sad, so sad. 
(I knew about the chocolate chip cookie, and the molten chocolate cakes, but not the peanut butter cups.)
Me sitting here having fun ---
Actually the chocolate chip cookie was invented at the Tollhouse Inn. That's where the chips got their name.
"The invention of chocolate chip cookies is often credited to Ruth Wakefield. With her husband, Wakefield ran the Tollhouse Inn in Massachusetts. The common story goes that Wakefield, who often made food for her guests, decided to make a chocolate butter cookie but didnât have enough chocolate bars to produce one. Instead she chopped up the bars and added them to the butter cookie recipe.
The chocolate chip cookies were an immediate success, and became known as Tollhouse cookies. They became so popular, that Nestles Chocolate Company purchased the recipe with the rights to print the recipe on its semi-sweet chocolate bars. In exchange, Wakefield received free chocolate for life. At that point there still were not chips in chocolate chip cookies, but instead the cookies had chunks of chopped chocolate."
Fiddle, we know our chocolate history, don't we? 
Yep Mel we sure do!
I have heard that story to. That must be where the story I heard about the choc not being chips but choc pieces came from. Of course it had nothing to do with tollhouse when I read it
But you know those Urban(?) kind of stories that go around
Like now is the time of yr for LIZZY BORDEN
Ah Fiddle, we just tease ya because you're so much fun! 
Working on that darn jack-o-lantern cake finally! The mock sugarveil didn't work for the spider web so on to another idea. 
I wish I had the real stuff. That looks like so much fun to work with.
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