A Couple Days Late Posted, But Worth The Wait

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads!!! I made this recipe for all the Dad's in the family on Sunday morning. Most of the Dad's I know LOVE peanut butter and chocolate. Below you will find a simple recipe to make something truly delectable!

#1 DAD Peanut Butter Balls

1 1/4 cup Skippy Natural Peanut Butter
1 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies
12 ounces Plymoth Pantry Chocolate Candy Coating

In a large bowl combine graham crumbs, powdered sugar and peanut butter. Stir. Add Rice Krispies by 1/2 cup increments and stir until all combined. Refrigerate for one full hour. Shape peanut butter mixture into balls using a level tablespoon. Melt Chocolate Candy Coating as directed on the package. Dip each ball in chocolate until covered. Rest on waxed paper or parchement for about 20 minutes or until chocolate is set. During the summer months I store the PBB's in the 'frige. Store in an airtight container. Gift and watch the smile on your Dad's face. (:

Sponge Candy, Honeycomb, Sea Sponge aka. REALLY GOOD LIGHT AS AIR CANDY

I first stumbled across this stuff in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. I was there for a wedding. On one of the last days, it was rainy, I was staying at the St. Paul hotel and I suited up and headed out umbrella in hand and walked a couple blocks to the store filled with sugar...

Candyland. If you are ever in Minnesota's Twin Cities, I highly recommend you go there. If you are flying, plan to have an extra suitcase to fill with your sweet loot! Check out their website www.candylandstore.com.

When I returned home, I enjoyed tasty popcorn and the sponge candy! When the sponge candy ran out, I had withdrawls and then I went cyber surfing to find a recipe. This website is amazing. Truly amazing and it doesn't stop with sponge candy. There are lots of recipes. If you have time and like fudge, they have fudge types I have never even heard of. The site is www.thatsmyhome.com/general.sponge.htm

That's My Home's Sponge Candy

1 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
1 T. vinegar
1 T. baking soda

Combine sugar, corn syrup and vinegar in a heavy saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Then cook to 300 degrees F or to the crack stage. Remove from heat and stir soda in quickly as it will froth up almost double or triple in size. Pour into a buttered pan. Cool and break into pieces.

Candyland covered their sponge candy with dark or milk chocolate and WOW. This stuff is amazing!

I have made this with light corn syrup and brown sugar. Very good anyway. I am going to try it with honey one of these days. They call it honeycomb... hmm?