Candy madness

[gfish]

During my fudge-making marathon recently, I decided to go out with a bang.



It started fairly normal. I wanted a maple base, so I skipped the chocolate, substituted brown sugar for white, and added maple syrup. The real stuff, since the grocery store was out of maple flavoring.



But then it took a hard left turn when I fried up a rasher of bacon nicely crispy and chopped it up.



Maple-bacon fudge! Except more like maple-bacon praline or maple-bacon brittle, because the thermometer went crazy. I had to turn off my targeting computer and, uh, the candy Force is not strong in me. I obviously need more practice with the cold water test. Or just a less sucky thermometer.



Tada! It was actually pretty tasty. Had I known it was going to be so hard, I would have poured it out much, much thinner. The bacon wasn't very noticeable, sadly. Maybe what I should have done was use the bacon grease instead of butter. Since I was leaving town the next day (and didn't want to have to declare it as a meat product to the border guards), I left it with hsifyppah who has been inflicting it on various people.

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[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

Maybe you already have! You just never know with stealth bacon.