Death by Caramel...

Each year about this time, I make a variety of candies and goodies to give away as teacher & neighbor gifts! NORMALLY, I have 5 or 6 other friends come over and we make a HUGE variety of goods and then share our spoils of the day with each other. WELL, I can't do that this year, as my kitchen is truly a one-fanny kitchen. SO I started my venture last night and will continue making some kind of poisonous junk every day until my rear end is roughly the size of the kitchen door. (They wrote a song about me - something involving a 2x4? haa!)

I start my journey with probably the easiest recipe...My dear friend Kris has this highly dangerous recipe for caramel which is, well, you just have to make it to understand the effects it can have on your hiney...she shared the recipe with me last year with the following warning "Be careful, this tends to skip the mouth and go straight to the hips" so - - with that warning, I share her caramel recipe!


Heat the following to 260 degrees:
1 3/4 cups Karo Syrup
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter

while still on the heat, add:

2 cups of room temperature heavy whipping cream and heat to 260 (hard ball stage)

remove from heat and add:

1 teaspoon vanilla
mix well and pour onto buttered cookie sheet.

Once mixture cools, apply directly to hips.

OKAY - so I did that last night - and this morning I decided to dip some of them in chocolate. This is a fairly easy recipe - and even easier to apply the chocolate - directions for that include - cutting the caramel, and dipping it in melted almond bark chocolate - it works best when you eat every-other one...

My agenda for the rest of the day includes sitting on the couch regretting all the sugar I consumed for the day - and daydreaming of all the things I should be doing, but can't because the sugar high has left me nauseated and tired...or maybe that's the baby? You never can tell....