August 2011 Daring Bakers' Challenge: Candylicious!

The August 2011 Daring Bakers’ Challenge was hosted by Lisa of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drive and Mandy of What the Fruitcake?!. These two sugar mavens challenged us to make sinfully delicious candies! This was a special challenge for the Daring Bakers because the good folks at http://www.chocoley.com offered an amazing prize for the winner of the most creative and delicious candy!

Aaaaaaand maybe I'll write more when I get a chance! For now, here are a few photos of my results. I made what I'm calling Toffee Almond Crunch Bars (untempered) and a variety of filled and unfilled molded truffles (tempered, albeit imperfectly). The filled truffles have things like homemade caramel sauce (totally delicious and my best EVER!), almonds, blueberries, and raspberry or blackberry jam. The unfilled ones are sea salted and basically amazing. All are dark chocolate (63% cacao).