Happy Endings

Christmas brings sweet memories (excuse the pun) of candy-making to me. I fondly remember a time when I could not peek into the pot on the stove without a stool, but my hands were still covered with the filling of my mother's delightful peanut butter bon-bons. I was even given the enviable position of dipping the sweet balls into the melted chocolate and quickly dropping them onto cooled foil. Of course, with a house full of kids, they rarely stayed there for long and mouths inevitably required a good cleaning to remove the only-slightly hardened chocolate!

And when company appeared at our door, it only took my mother a couple of minutes to rush to the cool storage closet and return with a big tray piled high with these confectionary treasures. Since all they require for storage is a cool, dry place, you can feel free to make a big batch. Of course, if you're like me, that means that, come January, you'll be resolving to make less next time the holidays come around!