Becky and Kevin do a great job of celebrating his Swedish ancestry. Part of that involves making unique Swedish St. Lucia buns. There are many interesting shapes that are traditional, and some that were made the other night that maybe aren’t so traditional. See if you can guess which ones Peter made! You might be surprised… some of the traditional ones are pretty unusual!
So we were invited to help make the fun shapes… but we didn’t stay late enough to see them baked. We did get some freshly baked buns the next morning! Yum!
They have their Christmas tree up and prettified, and even the Christmas train running around it. This is the same train that my mother bought for herself and her Christmas decorations a few decades ago.
Becky is not only an amazing Chocolatier, but a Chocolate Creating Class teacher as well! She had two classes this week, designed to let a parent and a child work together to make a little Chocolate Christmas Critter. Maybe a reindeer, maybe an alien. [See Peter’s alien from last week’s testing here.]
Cherryl helped with the first class, but I had another meeting to attend. But the second night we both attended. Well, Cherryl actually helped, and I made two critters.
Here are a few pictures of folks having fun making a chocolate mess!
She has a home-made chocolate heater- a plastic bucket, a heat lamp, a rheostat to adjust the temperature, and a nice bowl with a black coating on the bottom to distribute heat evenly. It’s amazing what she does with it!!
These are not Hershey’s chips she’s melting!
So here are the two critters I managed to create. The five little things that look like critter eggs (or worse) are egg shaped bonbons. Fabulous!
