I was lucky enough to be given Hope & Greenwood’s Life is Sweet and the apocalyptic weather this weekend was the perfect excuse to stay in and have a go at some sweet making.
We’re planning lots of homemade Christmas presents this year so had a practice run at making chocolate truffles, with a dash of brandy. Very chocolatey, delightfully messy and unsurprisingly delicious!
MrsP's brandy truffles
We also made cinder toffee, for those of you less familiar with oldfashioned sweets basically the crunchy bit of a Crunchie! Lots of fun to make, being more science experiment than cooking; my five-year took great delight in the moment when you add bicarb to the hot sugar!
Making your own sweets is far easier than I expected, fun and the end result well worth the effort. Yum!
Well Mrs P, I am very glad to hear you are enjoying cooking sweets from my book, as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Toodle pip!
Miss H