On November 1st ... a pound or so of good cooking-quality dark chocolate (semisweet or unsweetened if possible), melted in a double boiler, makes a lovely receptacle for uneaten Halloween candy. I usually chop or mince the candy first in a food processor or manually, using a sharp knife. Since most Halloween candy contains plenty of sugar, the cooking chocolate doesn't need any. And use a good quality chocolate to offset the cheap milk chocolate used in most Halloween candy.
The resulting mixture, when suitable thinned with your choice of liquids, makes a marvelous dessert sauce to go on top of ice cream or frozen yogurt.
Toll House Cookie dough is also an excellent "carrier" for chopped or diced Halloween candy. (This presumes you'll use the dough to bake cookies, of course, rather than just eating the raw dough for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.)
I do not recommend using hard candies (e.g., peppermints, Jolly Ranchers, etc.) for either of these suggested applications. (Well ...if you chop peppermints VERY finely in a food processor, they can be incorporated quite tastily into fudge. I have no such application for Jolly Rancher style hard candies, however.)
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Date: 2006-10-31 10:04 pm (UTC)The resulting mixture, when suitable thinned with your choice of liquids, makes a marvelous dessert sauce to go on top of ice cream or frozen yogurt.
Toll House Cookie dough is also an excellent "carrier" for chopped or diced Halloween candy. (This presumes you'll use the dough to bake cookies, of course, rather than just eating the raw dough for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.)
I do not recommend using hard candies (e.g., peppermints, Jolly Ranchers, etc.) for either of these suggested applications. (Well ...if you chop peppermints VERY finely in a food processor, they can be incorporated quite tastily into fudge. I have no such application for Jolly Rancher style hard candies, however.)