Hallowe'en Candy Overload

[bjarvis]

Every year, kent4str and I have the same debate about candy.

There aren't a lot of kids in our neighbourhood so there's not much trick-or-treating. Still, there are a few visitors so we always have some candy on hand, just in case. I argue that we should have a small inventory of candy we personally like as we'll be stuck with the leftovers and I can't bear throwing anything out. kent4str maintains that if we only distribute candy popular with kids but stuff we ourselves don't especially like, we'll be less likely to stuff our own faces with the leftovers. Thus, we now ask you, the voters, in yet another pointless poll:

[Poll #857534]
In any case, the Coffee Crisp bars are mine, ya little twerps.

Additional Hallowe'en candy advice is always welcome.

Comments

I have no idea why you didn't just email me directly...you KNOW I'd have an answer for this.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

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.)

Re: I have no idea why you didn't just email me directly...you KNOW I'd have an answer for this.

[apparentparadox]

I take a bunch of our left-over stuff & throw it in the freezer as part of my "earthquake supplies". I figure if we do have another big earthquake, munching down on even mediocre chocolate candy might make me a little less depressed.

While the east coast is a bit less susceptible to major earthquakes, there have been major power outages or even bad republican bills being made into law.

Republicans?

[allanh.livejournal.com]

Y'know ... sometimes, even GOOD chocolate just can't get rid of the bad taste in my mouth left by the Republicans.

And I haven't [knowingly] played with a Republican in YEARS.

Re: I have no idea why you didn't just email me directly...you KNOW I'd have an answer for this.

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

And we do get hurricanes this far north!