So, made my first peanut butter cups 25 years ago from a recipe printed on a grocer's chocolate brick called Candi-Quik. Being a single mom working through college, there wasn't a lot of cash for Christmas giving.
Candi-Quik is good enough, but tastes pretty waxy. I used generic peanut butter for the filling and was surprised when the cups actually came out okay. Had fun packing them up in Dollar Store tins, totally unaware that in the minds of my friends and fam, Danna-Joy's peanut butter cups were not a one-time taste tease. They were the new tradition.
Some practically revolted if peanut butter cups were not under the tree or on the desk at the holiday break. A clotheshorse bro-in-law could have cared less one year about the two stylin' dress shirts that were just his size. "Did you bring me any peanut butter cups?" he demanded. "If I didn't get any peanut butter cups this year, get out of my house."
HA! Such a kidder. Kinda like my old partner in crime. I returned from our last Christmas working together at probation to find most people in our unit didn't get the peanut butter cups I'd left in containers on their desks. By then I was creating from my own recipe using premium dark Guittard chocolate and sea salts blended with ground organic peanuts from Sunshine Health Foods in Morro Bay.
Love that Sunshine grinding machine. So does my granddaughter, Sarah-Joy. Love those nutty ground Sunshine peanuts blended with creamy, dark-roasted Santa Cruz organic peanut butter for the perfect texture and taste. (At the time of the missing cup caper, experimenting with local berries was just a what-if?, but the chocolate peanut butter cups were definitely getting tastier).
Didn't take but a minute to figure out my partner had helped himself to everyone else's stash. He had a habit of doing that. He's in New Mexico now doing super-duper top secret federal work. He still got a special gift of Joycups this year. Might get another box for Christmas, too. If he behaves himself.
Candi-Quik is good enough, but tastes pretty waxy. I used generic peanut butter for the filling and was surprised when the cups actually came out okay. Had fun packing them up in Dollar Store tins, totally unaware that in the minds of my friends and fam, Danna-Joy's peanut butter cups were not a one-time taste tease. They were the new tradition.
Some practically revolted if peanut butter cups were not under the tree or on the desk at the holiday break. A clotheshorse bro-in-law could have cared less one year about the two stylin' dress shirts that were just his size. "Did you bring me any peanut butter cups?" he demanded. "If I didn't get any peanut butter cups this year, get out of my house."
HA! Such a kidder. Kinda like my old partner in crime. I returned from our last Christmas working together at probation to find most people in our unit didn't get the peanut butter cups I'd left in containers on their desks. By then I was creating from my own recipe using premium dark Guittard chocolate and sea salts blended with ground organic peanuts from Sunshine Health Foods in Morro Bay.
Love that Sunshine grinding machine. So does my granddaughter, Sarah-Joy. Love those nutty ground Sunshine peanuts blended with creamy, dark-roasted Santa Cruz organic peanut butter for the perfect texture and taste. (At the time of the missing cup caper, experimenting with local berries was just a what-if?, but the chocolate peanut butter cups were definitely getting tastier).
Didn't take but a minute to figure out my partner had helped himself to everyone else's stash. He had a habit of doing that. He's in New Mexico now doing super-duper top secret federal work. He still got a special gift of Joycups this year. Might get another box for Christmas, too. If he behaves himself.
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