Making Chocolates with Mary - The Dipping

 ... two women tempering chocolate ...
note the stream of chocolate squeezed from the right hand
of the woman on the left.

From Mary:

Sabrina, Robin and Rachael (with the great red hair) are the names of the women in this picture: great friends from work.

We went on a chocolate making extravaganza.

the caramel is so soft you can take it out with a spoon

We took other sets of pictures:  fondant making and dividing up all the chocolates when they were done.

Here are the photos of chocolate making.

There are lots of pictures of the caramels.

Two spoons -- the best way to deal with this caramel.
Just find a friend and eat it out of the pan.

The caramel was too soft to dip, but we tried anyway and learned our lesson.

There is a great shot where you can see just how much they fell once we got them dipped and on the tray.

That picture is my favorite.

The 4 caramels on the far back left that are standing tall?
They will look like those on the far right
in the time it takes to dip that many chocolates.
As Mary said, "They fell once they were dipped."

From Arta:

Above is all of the text I got from Mary.

The pictures tell 1000 words, some of which I will add to the next set of pictures Mary sends.

How did they get the fondant made, the chocolates dipped and the product packaged in two week-ends?

Arta