Last Friday I was in my office talking with Brad when for some reason (unknown to me) I said "chocolate covered Bugles". When I said that, Brad's eyebrows raised and he considered the possibilities. Then I considered the possibilities. Brad said, "You should write that idea down." I did.
On Saturday, I decided to make chocolate covered Bugles. I remembered Alex's Chocolate Covered Twizzlers knew the technique I would use.
I told Michele what I was doing (after I bought the Bugles & chocolate) and she was mildly unsupportive. She said things like "No Way!", "This is going to be a mess!", and "Why are you so crazy? This is for your blog right?!?"
After carefully considering her concerns, I ignored them and walked into the kitchen to begin.
The base ingredients, Bugles and chocolate chips.
This is the doubleboiler setup I made with the bowl of chocolate floating in the pot of boiling water.
I asked Michele how to make it, and she started to help me.
Then she looked up and said, "What the f**k am I doing? YOU figure it out!"
Continue reading about the Bugles....
Zoe on the other hand, was quite supportive of my cooking efforts and helped out.
It takes a while to get the chocolate melted. Have patience, stir a bit, and soon enough it will be smooth and melted.
I simply dipped the Bugle into the chocolate and pulled it out. A chopstick is useful in wiping the excess chocolate off the bottom.
I put them down on wax paper to cool. The first row I laid on their side, but soon decided it was better to put them upright.
I made over 60 chocolate covered Bugles and ran out of wax paper space. To tell the truth, I also got tired of making them.
I had plenty of chocolate left. Looking around the kitchen I spied a few butter cookies.
The butter cookies when into the chocolate and came out fudge cookies.
The chocolate wasn't cooling and hardening, so I placed them on cooling trays in the fridge. In a few minutes, the chocolate got hard and that made all the difference. The children began opening the fridge and snatching them right off the wax paper.