Opera cremes are basically a fondant covered with chocolate. Back in the day it was considered gauche to chew in public so these little melt-in-your-mouth yummies were made for the opera attending crowd, hence the name "opera cremes."

Oh, thank you. Anyone have a recipe?

I sent the M&M poem to my mom who makes little gifts for her womens church group. Thought it was perfect!

Thanks for posting that !

all i can say is Yum, yum, and I can't wait for the holidays!!

Peanut Butter Balls

1 Box Powdered Sugar
1-12oz Jar Peanut Butter, Creamy or Crunchy
3C Rice Krispies
1 Stick Butter or Marg Melted
12oz Semi Sweet Choc Chips Or More
Paraffin Wax

Mix First 4 Ingredients. Make Into Med Size Balls Refrigerate at Least 1 hr.
Melt Choc Chips and 1/3 bar of the wax. Dip balls and set on wax paper till harden.
You can also make these with out the rice krispies. These can be frozen before or after dipping for several months.

Apricot Balls

250 gm glace apricots,finely chopped
250 gm white choc.melts
1/4 cup grnd.almonds
1 cup sweet biscuit crumbs
2 tbspn brandy
1/2 cup dessicated coconut
1/2 cup cream

Soak apricots in brandy in bowl for about 10min. Put cream in pan,bring to boil,remove from heat, add chocolate & stir until melted.
Add apricots, almonds,crumbs & mix well. Refrigerate until firm, then roll into balls & cover with coconut.

I have to make these without fail every xmas or I have very disappointed people on my hands !!

Our standard christmas drink is a Champagne Slushie - blend any flavour of sorbet that you like ( lemon , mango & berry are firm favorites !) with as much champagne as you like in a blender & drink away !!! yumm

OH jules, that sounds wonderful! What is dessicated coconut?

I think it's just dried,shredded coconut - you buy it in bags

We have to have this every year too!!!

OVEN CARAMEL CORN

15 cups popped popcorn
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup margarine or butter
¼ cup light corn syrup
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda

Heat oven to 200°. Divide popcorn between 2 ungreased
rectangular pans, 13x9x2 inches. Heat brown sugar, margarine,
corn syrup and salt to simmering over medium-high heat,
stirring constantly. Cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes;
remove from heat. Stir in baking soda. Pour over popcorn;
stir until well coated. Bake 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
Makes about 15 cups.

Nutty Caramel Corn: Decrease popcorn to 12 cups. Add 1 ½
cups walnut or pecan haves and/or unblanched whole almonds
to each pan of popcorn before stirring

I have a good one for candy apples. Let me search my recipes.............It might take a while

I have 2 really easy recipes, and great for the kids to help with.

Coconut Drops:

1 whole large bar of Almond Bark ( chocolate or White Chocolate)
1/2 Bag of coconut.

Melt the chocolate, and pour in the coconut and mix. Drop by spoon fulls onto wax paper and let set. These were super easy for my kids to do, and help out. They were even a bigger hit in the care packages I give out.


Dipped Marshmallows:

1 whole large bar of Almond Bar ( chocolate or white chocolate)
1 bag of large Marshmallows
1 bag of pop cycle sticks

Insert the sticks into marshmallows, and dip into the melted chocolate. Let set on wax paper.
These were a huge hit with the grownups and a must have in my future care packages.

One I remember from childhood but my family never made was sea glass. I've been looking for a recipe for that for a very long time to no avail. Does anyone else remember sea glass?

After reading that it sounds like it might be something like Jolly Ranchers ,different shape of course but when it said different color and flavor and then sounds like schattered glass and that clear look made me thing of Jolly Ranchers! Sounds like a neat recipe !

fiddlesticks
What is sea glass candy if it isn't a clear hard candy? I'm 41 yrs old and don't remember every hearing of sea glass candy. The candy link I posted is very close if not the one I use to make red hot cinnamon hard candy. Just wondering. Thanks!

Sea glass is a hard, clear candy (like a lollypop without a stick) that is broken into shards and rolled in confectioners sugar to make it look like sea glass. I just remember it being divine as a child.

tammy712.. I have NO idea I never heard of it untill BOB asked about it !

Ok, I guess the sea glass candy is just another name for hard candy. Then the link I posted would of been what bob wanted.
At christmas I make the hot cinnamon and for my MIL I make the anise hard candy. The house smells of black licorice for hours after making the anise.

Oh, Bobwonderbuns, now I know what your talking about. I remember having that too as a kid. It was soooo good. I am digging thru recipies to see if I can find it.

Ok, the file is updated! I've been out of town since Thursday, sorry.

I think the M&M's idea is cute, would be neat to package red and green M&M's in a while tulle circle, with a Christmas tag tied to it with that poem on it! Neat! Or, do half and half... red M&M's in a green tulle with red ribbon, then green M&M's in red tulle with green ribbon! Or you could do all three for variety!

I love making Anise candy, it's one of my favorite flavors of all time. My three year old is nuts about it too! He goes wild over it! (I even have Anise flavored toothpaste from the Health Food store!!)

Well, here's an old favorite for kids... easy and yummy!

Christmas Wreaths

1/3 c. butter
1 (10.5 oz.) package large marshmallows
6 c. cornflakes
1 t. green food coloring
¼ c. cinnamon red hot candies

Directions: Melt margarine in a large pan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir constantly until marshmallows melt and mixture is syrupy. Remove from heat. Stir in food coloring. Add corn flakes and stir until well coated. Drop mixture, by 1/4 cupful, onto cookie sheet. Using buttered fingers, quickly shape into individual wreaths. Dot with cinnamon candies

Oh, I LOVE the M&M poem!! Thanks!!
The other, more irreverant (sp???) poem that I like is the one you attach to a bag of mini marshmallows with a chocolate spoon.
It goes something like this:

You've been naughty,
Here's the scoop,
This year you get...
SNOWMAN POOP!!!

mommyle.. Love it ! I have not seen that one, Oh But I will be using it !!!!!

Melvira I have a recipe for you. It's Licorice Caramels, I've never tried it but you make it like regular caramels and use anise and black paste food coloring in it. If you want it I will post it.
Tammy

Yes Please post it My family would love that !

Fiddle, that is probably the same recipe I sent you when you asked for my caramel apple caramels recipe. But you would use anise instead of the apple flavoring. (Wait... did I give you the one that calls for whipping cream?) That's how it originally started out, as anise, then I started adding different flavors, that's how I got the caramel apple caramels! YUM! I don't color mine black though, I color it red. Prettier, and it doesn't stain your mouth! Hehehe. But thank you Tammy!! You can post it still, I can compare it to mine, and if anyone else wants it, then it's here!! Thank you, that is very nice of you!

Yep Mel You gave me the one that has 3 cups heavy cream. Is that the one your talking about ?