Thursday, December 14, 2006

Warning Chocoholic ahead!

I am all sticky from tasting and making Christmas sweets. I've just finished off making a batch of dark chocolate truffles with lovely smooooooth cognac(Prince Hubert De Polignac V.S) in them. It has to cool down now enough to handle so am waiting for the fridge to do its stuff. Then I'm going to roll them into balls and dust with cocoa powder. Yummieee... There are also Ice Chocolate Éclairs sitting cooling off in the fridge and I have a lot of Cocoa Crispies cooling on the kitchen bench, they didn't fit in the fridge! It feels like I've rolled a hundred of little marzipan balls as well that is waiting to be dipped in chocolate. I ran out of the nice milk chocolate since someone, no naming names, had eaten a WHOLE 250 g bar (minus a little row I had last night but that was crumbs compared to the whole bar!) I got to find a hiding place for my sweets I think or there wont be any left for Christmas. I was going to leave them here for a treat for my mum and sister since we wont be here for Christmas this year. We are going to spend the holidays with James' parents. I am very excited about that because I have never had an English Christmas before. Only thing that is wrong with that is that I wont get to open my pressies until Christmas Day! Here in Sweden we open our pressies on Christmas Eve. Which to me is the right day...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can open your birthday present instead"!!!

Snowbabies said...

We were always alowed to open one present on Christmas Eve. I think this was just a bribe to behave while all the grown ups went off to the pub though!

Paul.

Roberta S said...

Opening our presents Christmas Eve was a tradition we adopted years ago. Family can become pretty grumpy on Christmas Day when it starts out with kids tumbling out of bed at 5:30 a.m. Nicer for adults as well. Unopened presents can cause insomnia for people of all ages.