Last night, I made babies.
Lots of babies.
Lots and lots of yummy babies.
Lots and lots of these: Chocolate Peanut Butter Babies.
Initially, the chocolate balls were to be a Christmas present for a friend on a gluten-free diet. But then I got on a baby-making roll; now all my friends are getting chocolate peanut butter babies for Christmas!
Wah wah wah.
To add color and variety, I also made a few batches of these:
Nut-free: Girl-Scout Cookie Truffles.
If you’re looking for a last-minute gift idea, these truffles are awesome: they ship well, and they’re a cinch to make!Â
Question of the Day:
What gifts are you giving your friends this year?
Do you have your holiday shopping done? Last week, my roommate and I went to the mall in an attempt to find Christmas presents for all our friends. But every store seemed to be selling the exact same things. How many bottles of hand sanitizer or body lotion does a person need?
So I gave up and decided to make gifts this year. (My roommate also gave up at the mall, opting to do her shopping online. Amazon.com is dangerous; you could spend a fortune on there!)
Truffles are so popular this time of year and I’ve never made any before. I finally got all my shopping done, just haven’t started wrapping yet. But I love to wrap, so that’ll be fun some evening. We have a wonderful local chocolate shop so some friends are getting chocolate. Figured I couldn’t go wrong with that! 😉
Mmm truffles are all over my Google Reader today. Can’t go wrong with chocolate and pb!
Now that most of my friends and I have kidlets, we just buy gifts for them. Instead, we do a girls xmas dinner! 😉
I love your photography ideas, the dishes always look so colourful, imaginative and totally come to life!
Truffle balls make such a great gift, I just posted some vegan Lindt-imitation truffles last Friday. My mouth is still watering over them. Yum!
So cool- i just came to check CCK in the middle of our baking homemade gifts marathon. Right now we are making chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies. Sinful. and later some chocolate bark. Totally your chocolate heaven 🙂 Have a great day!
I believe I’ll be making THESE as a gift. I also have chocolate peppermint ones to make too! DELICIOUS!
‘Tis the time for truffles! I made some the other day on a whim. There was a recipe on the side of my chocolate mint Silk soy milk and I thought- why not? They would definitely meet your chocolate standards. Chocolate mint silk, peppermint extract, lots of bittersweet chocolate, and a touch of earth balance. They are a beautifully rich, deep chocolate. I bet they would be good as a peanut butter version too (sans mint)!
on my ‘to make’ list are Larabars and these babies 😀 can’t wait til i have an excuse to make them. I’m getting my best friend Powdered peanutbutter, and powdered chocolate peanutbutter. She loves peanutbutter, but can’t enjoy it thinking of the calorie-loaded spoonfuls. These have much less than half the calories and fat 😀 perfect!
Yes Amazon.com is VERY dangerous…especially since I just found out that they’ll also ship to Canada (they weren’t before, I believe). Like other people, I’m making little treats to go along with the gifts.
I make all of my Christmas gifts – I’m not a big fan of shopping for gifts. So, this year I made my mother some hot chocolate mixes and Bailey Irish Creme filled chocolates. My father is getting a homemade dessert coupon book (he is ALWAYS asking me to make him little treats, so I figured coupons would be a perfect fit!) And, last but not least, my brother is getting a gluten free beer making guide (he’s started brewing his own beer and wants to make some that I can have!)