Hello fellow foodies, teens, people I know, strangers, and people who just stumbled across this blog! I’m the fifteen year old foodie! Well, the food part. Not so much the alcoholic beverages part. Thank wikipedia if I got the definition wrong.
Anyways……..
I thought it would be good to start the blog off with something sweet, and easy. So the recipe I made last Friday is perfect! Homemade Peppermint Spice Drops. I got the recipe here: http://salttree.net/2011/08/gumdrops-spicedrops-oh-my.html/
It may be kinda cheating, but yes, I used someone else’s recipe. I mostly do that. Then experiment. A lot. And end up with flat cakes and a bowl full of mashed purple potatoes that I thought were jams.
But, in this case, the recipe went well. I followed it exactly. That might be part of it.
Yeah, that’s it.
Ta da! Kind of lopsided and ugly, but still…people are pretty impressed if you tell them you made your own spicedrops. Like, oh my gosh, I can’t believe people can even do that, impressed.
And, they go with my ‘everything tastes better homemade’ theory (Not including pudding. At least with me. It always gets those weird little lumps that you can’t imagine how it got there, because you where so careful with the eggs).
These where super pepperminty….almost toothpaste-y pepperminty. I’d cut it down to about 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract, or 3/4. or 4/16. What ever you think.
Here’s a close-up. You can see some of the sugar clumping together. If you ignore that, it’s kind of pretty.
They’re also super sticky. Like, insanely sticky. Like glue your fingers together sticky. But they melt in your mouth, so they don’t stick in your teeth. Luckily.
See what I mean? But on the plus side, I get to eat it now.
So, how was this first post? Good, I hope. Now it’s time for me to do some clean-up so I can finish another project.
I wonder if you can make rice krispies with Cheerios……
Confections & Creations 