wiseheart | Hungarian Christmas candy

I've made it, yesssss, Precioussss! Two different kinds: one with coconut and lime flavour and one with chocolate and peppermint. The latter was a trial - stupid recipe only told me how long I needed to boil the sugar syrup but not the level of the heat, so it suddenly became rock hard before the boiling time would be over. I used a one kilogram iron weight to break it into pieces and then pulverize it; added biscuit crumbs and butter and cocoa powder to somehow make it manageable. In the end, I reached a consistency where I was able to shape the candy, but it was brutal.

At least it's shaped and wrapped and packed into small cellophane bags I had folded months ago. For the wrapping, I had been saving the original wrappings of Lindor chocolate balls and reused them for the candy; the little bags look really pretty with the Washi tape decoration and the handmade little labels. The coconut/lime candy needs a night in the fridge, as it's got white chocolate icing that needs to harden properly, but it will be wrapped similarly tomorrow.

Candy-making took the whole morning and part of the afternoon, too, as I needed to make the labels for the coconut/lime ones, plus to sort out the wrappings. I've got enough blue ones for the coconut/lime candy; the chocolate/mint ones have different colours. I'd have liked them to be all green, but clearly, we hadn't had enough Lindt chocolate balls with pistachion filling. *g*

So, after all this I was completely done in. Fortunately, we still had Scheiterhaufen from yesterday (and will have the rest of it tomorrow, too), so all the cooking I had to do was to make some Tütensuppe - chicken soup with noodles, in the unlikely case anyone wants to know. Then I had a nice, long chat with my friend Evie and decided to call it a day.