that sounds wonderful, Lee
"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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> Got 164 of them out of 2 lbs of white chocolate! I was kinda surprised
> I got that many, but I did. Thought I was gonna have to make another
> batch.
>
> Here's my recipe. I kinda modified a recipe I found on the MyRecipes
> website:
>
> 2 lbs white chocolate
> 1 cup eggnog
> 1/2 cup dark rum
> 1 cup powdered sugar (at the recommendation of MyRecipies)
>
> First, I reduced the dark rum (I used Myers) by about 1/2 to reduce
> the amount of liquid I was putting in (not to remove the alcohol, but
> it probably did). Then I added the eggnog and brought the mixture up
> to a boil then dumped in the white chocolate and p-sugar and mixed
> well.
>
> It was more watery than I'm used to with other ganaches I make, and I
> poured it onto a plastic lined baking sheet and refrigerated. Still
> pretty soft so I put it in the freezer overnight. That was workable
> but I had to keep it refrigerated and cut it into strips outside where
> it's cold (32F and dropping!) which I them brought inside one at a
> time and cut into piece size pieces, quickly form into a ball and dip
> in white chocolate compound coating (**** you Bryan, YOU deal with the
> "real" chocolate for enrobing when you make almost 200 pieces of 8
> different kinds of Christmas Candy!!) I sprinkled a little nutmeg on
> each piece immediately after dipping, and they eat just like a sip of
> eggnog, with the nutmeg sprinkled on top, only sweeter which is OK
> because they are candy!
>
> I have now entered the world of white chocolate after 25 years of
> making Christmas Candy! :-)
>
> John Kuthe...