Food Photo of the Day ~ Candy Cane Bark

This was my daughter's creation, Candy Cane Bark. With only a few simple ingredients we created this sweet treat to share. Solid milk chocolate topped with white chocolate and crushed candy canes for some minty goodness. My son wasn't going to miss this opportunity and helped by keeping an eye on the chocolate as it melted and by placing a handful of crushed candy canes on top. They definitely had fun and enjoyed sampling once the everything had set.  

Hope everyone had a good weekend! - JD  

Food Photo of the Day ~ Candy Cane Shortbread

I like to make all sorts of different flavours of shortbread and this one I came up with on a whim. I had some candy canes that were broken and decided to add them to the shortbread dough and then I add a few drops of red food colouring to the butter and some mint flavouring, to the butter before mixing into the dry ingredients. When they were baking the buttery mint smell filled the kitchen; although my son said that the cookies themselves didn't taste too minty. Which is great because one can have a heavy hand when adding additional flavour. They were decorated with an icing swirl to mimic a peppermint candy. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Still plenty more baking to do. - JD