Geeze...I'm going to quit making Christmas goodies

15 years ago

Everything I try is a mess...

Today I tried the white choc. fudge with the gum drops. It was sitting up before I could stir up the white choc chips...I got so upset I forgot the marshmellow creme.

It's pretty and it can be eaten..but it's just not right...Will probably get hard as a rock.

I messed up the pralines the other day.

I've messed up several batches of no bakes...

It's been a bad week.

I had to get a new microwave and I think this one has too much power compared to my old one. I don't like it.

Next time I'll drop a minute and see if that works.

Hope it doesn't ruin my peanut butter fudge.

I made my fudge and peanut brittle in the microwave before and never had any trouble.

patti

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User
15 years ago
Calm down & take it easy, we all have days like that. Just stop an do it another time, it will all come together. Now go do something fun.
glenda_al
15 years ago
I made 7 half pints of pink champagne jelly. Was supposed to have been 10, but all I got was 7. Used the recipe before and always got 10.

Well, I'll use the other jars for marinated olives that I have to jar up the end of the week.
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I have used 2-3 new recipes this year. None were satisfactory.

I still have time to do my Christmas must-haves, I hope.

What can we blame all these failures on? I wish I knew!!

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Pattico....take a deep breath. Things will turn OK....better than that...have a Tom & Jerry. Then you won't care! LOL
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nodakgal
15 years ago
Patti I really hate to tell you this, but the gum drop fudge didn't have marshmallow cream! LOL
I made it this morning and its not bad, I just tasted a little corner that broke off.
Pralines I didn't make though so can't help there.
Try again. You can't mess up twice. LOL
juellie1962
15 years ago
Patti - I feel your pain. But my problem is that I've bought ingredients for a gazillion things and haven't made but two of them. The days just keep getting away from me!!!
pattico_gw
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15 years ago
Connie...I followed my fudge recipe...for marshmallow/choc chip fudge...and used white choc chips instead. That is also how I make my peanut butter fudge.

I'll have to check to see how the "real" recipe goes...

All the mistakes haven't just been today...this has been going on for a couple weeks...Seems like everything I've touched has been spilled or broke...lol
nanny98
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I Share your pain too, Patti. Prailines burned *(Yuk). But, I spent yesterday making buckeyes....today dipping them in chocolate. I confess that after making these (for my non-wheat non dairy grandson) for the last 6 years, this years production have made me proud. (about 125) Who'da thought, using the food processor for mixing and electric skillet for keeping the chocolate warm would spell success. So easy!

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jel48
15 years ago
Yikes! The days aren't slippng by... they're flashing past like a speeding bullet! I made the gumdrop fudge yesterday and it turned out great! It's sweetened condensed milk, not marshmallow creme for that recipe. We liked it so well that I'm going to try doing the same with chocolate almond bark and sweetened condensed milk to make a little chocolate fudge!

Our big boo boo this year came yesterday. Emi and her friend Lexie made some of the candy where you use a pretzel ring (little circle about an inch or inch and a half across) and put a chocolate kiss in the middle. Soften in the oven for a couple of minutes and then press a red or green M&M on top. Simple and failproof.. right? The first two big pans came out beautifully. Then they did the last (smaller) pan. I had them leave the oven on, because I had more cookies to do a little later. Maybe 45 minutes later, it still smelled like something was being baked and I looked in the oven. There was that last pan still there! The chocolate kisses had actually turned hard again, kind of crusted over. The pretzels looked ok. I pulled them out and decided to let them cool and try one to see if they were edible. Nope! Not so good! They didn't look burned but had a real scorched taste. I ended up throwing them out. That was a bit of a costly mistake with all those Hershey's Chocolate Kisses in there! Poor Emi felt so bad. I told her (and truthfully) that I've left that last sheet of cookies or whatever in the oven quite a few different times. It's so easy to do if you don't set the timer!

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