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February 17th
Yummy Baked Goods

Nom nom nom. I had decided awhile ago that I wanted to learn how to make these simple yummy treats my mom sent me last semester at college. And furthermore, i wanted to work on sending them to two of my friends who seem to be having a rough time lately - so really, no time like the present to whip up a nice, yummy surprise.

They have no name, but I was fiddling with names like: Chocolate Saucers. But my brain got fried, so it ended there. And technically, you could call them chocolate covered pretzels but that’s not really what they are and that’s boring. So pfft. Chocolate saucers it is.

Watch as I give you a homemade recipe.

Step Number One:

Buy a bag of Hershey’s hugs or kisses. I have done both, and hugs taste better (kisses are a bit overwhelming - although both taste good!!!) and melt quicker/are easier to deal with. But anyway, do as you please, both work. C’est la vie. Anyway, proceed to unwrap all those hugs/kisses. This is probably the most time-consuming step of the process. Other than waiting for the chocolate pretzels to solidify in your fridge.

Step Number Two:

Find a place that sells circular pretzels. Or something similar. If you live around the Illinois area - um, I don’t know how popular this chain is anywhere else, but Jewel Osco (grocery store) has them. I don’t know of anywhere else that would really.

Step Number Three:

Place hugs/kisses on circular pretzels. Really, rocket scientists invented this formula.

Step Number Four: Preheat oven to 200 degrees. When it’s all fired up and ready to go, place those pretzels in. I should clarify that if you’re using a stone slab such as that… you really ought to use parchment paper on top of it, otherwise it’s hell to get those things off. If you’re using a cookie sheet, apparently no sort of paper is necessary (according to my mom who made them on cookie sheets before and popped them off quite easily). Anyway, if you are using hugs, you should leave them in for 2-4 minutes. The original recipe says 2-3, but our oven must be weak or something, because we needed to keep them in for four minutes. As for kisses, you are better off leaving them in between 3-5 minutes, or, in our oven, it was best between 4-5 minutes. Assuming you don’t like my haphazard time frame, you should pull them out when they begin to look glossy and a bit gloopy/melty.

If you leave them in too long: The kisses will begin to form this weird shell, which doesn’t matter too much in the long run, but it doesn’t make the pretzels look as appetizing. The hugs usually just melt down into the pretzel (fo srs, they are mad convenient).

Step Number Five:

YUM. I mean. When you take them out, if they aren’t already melted down (most won’t be, it’s sheer good luck really if they do), you take your finger to each kiss/hug and press down until they smush into the pretzel. Yup, it gets messy. But so so yummy. The chocolate will try and follow your finger back up, but you’re going to have to try and swirl it around a bit and get it to lie flat - if you want them to look like a discus, rather.

The real challenge of this step is, after so many of the candies you have pushed down, you will be EXTREMELY tempted to lick your gooey chocolatey finger. DON’T DO IT. Or rather, you can do it, but remember you licked that finger and proceed to use a different finger for the rest of them. Get what I’m saying?

Also, kisses will be harder to push down - for the same strange reason that they take longer to melt. Also also, it might be easier/less messy if you wet your finger first before flattening the chocolate - or rather, it will make the chocolate flatter, which is preferable.

Step Number Six: After that funderful (yes, I just said funderful) process, proceed to take your pretzels and place them in the fridge for about 45 minutes - 1 hour and a half until they look chilled and solidified in place. You don’t want gooey pretzels at this stage, haha, so make sure they are definitely not that.

Step Number Seven: Pop pretzels off tray/stone slab/parchment paper. And eat. Nom nom nom. So good.

As I said, it’s really not a long process. It’s just the unwrapping candy. And waiting.

Funny story: I’ve still been making these consistently the past two days. See, once I almost finished the bags for my friends, my mom requested some for the household. -_- So, here I go again. I made two more batches tonight, and I’ll probably make two more tomorrow. Jeezus

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