@gavi I'd call them a success. The finish is a little smoother and closer to shiny than the source chocolate, which I presume comes down to the shortening? But I don't know! I have MUCH less experience in confectionary than baking.

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Half a peppermint patty showing the interior fine-grained white peppermint layer and the outer chocolate layer. It's about 2/3rd peppermint, 1/3 chocolate.

Tastes good! I was worried the chocolate might be a little light, but it's not. The peppermint has a good snap, which I think is nice. The chocolate is a bit melty, though, so I think these should be stored in the fridge.

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nine peppermint patties in a parchment-paper tray

Let's try one!

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and now we wait.

i think these'll be okay. the only sad part is how much wasted chocolate there is from the dunking process.

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six chocolate-covered peppermint patties on parchment paper, cooling as I make more

MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE BEFORE EVERYTHING MELTS

because holy shit it is melting

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everything's melted except the shortening and now it's all about stirring with a wooden spoon

i always forget how fast confectionary is once you really get going

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choco and two pots, one with water, fire underneath it

time for HOT

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frozen peppermint patties out of the freezer, hidden behind parchment paper on a tray

Let's see if confectionary is going to be any kinder to me than baking

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and in! It's slid between stuff so not worth photographs.

TOMORROW WE CHOCOLATE!

or maybe sunday, maybe i'll do this on sunday for #monsterdon idk

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peppermint patty cores stacked between layers of parchment paper on a metal tray

16 ready for the freezer

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misc discs of peppermint patty filling on parchment paper on a countertop in mostly

honestly tho it works fine

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sugared parchment paper and sugared roller ready to go

doing all this with sugar and not flour is SO weird

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a lump of … sugar dough? It acts like dough, it’ll do

lol I lied

VICTORY FOR GAZ

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hands covered in milky sugar goo

OH GODS SEND HELP

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bowl now with too dang much sugar

“‘tain’t flour. ‘s cocaine!”

aka powdered sugar lol

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carefully indy, carefully [adding peppermint to the milk]

do not get this part wrong peppermint extract is a class four hazard

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pouring sweetened condensed milk into a big bowl

there is like nothing to this at all

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a big bowl, a box of powdered sugar, a tin of sweetened condensed milk, some peppermint extract and shortening on a countertop

FUKKIT LATE NITE CONFECTIONARY LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO

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what's happening is i read more shit and am like

whelp

time for baking i guess

(only this one's confectionary)

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now i wanna start making peppermint patties

i don't even have the chocolate but

the peppermint core has to freeze overnight

i could get the choco tomorro

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Goodies from the Bulk Barrel bulk store!

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