It's Crunch Time
Between Halloween and Christmas there was always a tremendous amount of candy making taking place among our family. Each family member seemed to have that one particular candy that was theirs and theirs alone. Aunt Mimi was famous for her chocolate covered almonds, Aunt Elsie, it was her honey fudge and for Aunt Jay it was always her peanut brittle. There was only one candy that it seemed everybody made, my Mother and Grandmother included and that was chocolate haystacks. You know the ones with the Chinese noodles stirred into melted chocolate then mounded by spoonfuls onto wax paper to look like little haystacks. We all loved those mainly for the texture more than anything else because the noodles remained crisp. Well here is the exact same recipe but instead of the Chinese noodles this one uses Grape-Nuts cereal. These give the candy a tremendous crunch which goes quite nicely with the smooth creamy chocolate.
Grape-Nuts Chocolate Drops
2 pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (14 or 15 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
1 c. Grape-Nuts
1 tsp. vanilla
Melt chocolate over boiling water, remove from heat. Stir until smooth; add milk and blend some more. Now add your Grape-Nuts and vanilla, drop from teaspoons onto waxed paper, cool until firm.
Yield: 5 dozen candies.
4 comments:
I love these. Let me know when you are making them Sweets They would be a great snack on the go.
Oh for heaven's sake, what an interesting candy. I've only made pudding with this cereal. Now I'll have to try this. thanks!
It's so easy and so worth it Katy.
Well my Christine, I will make them whenever you would like...but since I know that you are not a huge fan of Grape-Nuts I will make yours with the Chinese noodles.
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