Got Chocolate? DIY Valentine Gifts

Fudge doesn’t have to be for Christmas-time only!  At our house “anything chocolate” equates to a ♥ fantastic gift ♥ for my Chief Love any time of the year!

This fudge was gifted to us this Christmas by our friends Peggy and Barnett.  I will be making it this week for my funny Valentine. ♥ (Recipe posted at the bottom of this page.)

And then there is Walnut Fudge Pie.  I use to make this really, really often for our bed and breakfast guests.  My Chief Valentine  ♥ ate leftovers often.  But these days … well, a homemade walnut fudge pie will be a big  Valentine’s Day hit!

Just in case I haven’t convinced you to make some homemade chocolate goody for your ♥ Valentine ♥ this week, let me introduce you to Crock Pot Peanut Clusters.

Milk Chocolate ♥ Semi-sweet Chocolate ♥ Peanut Butter Chips ♥
White Almond Bark ♥ And of course PEANUTS! ♥

My sous-chef dish-washing mom made a big batch of slow cooker peanut clusters today to share with friends this week! ♥  Check out the recipe here.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
Blessings, Catherine

The Way of Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.       1 Corinthians 13

The Best Fudge

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Fudge recipes are a dime a dozen, but this recipe is worth a million bucks and beats them all!

Author: Adapted by Catherine Daugherty

Recipe type: Candy

Ingredients

• 1 small can evaporated milk (5 oz.)
• 3 cups white granulated sugar
• 1½ sticks real unsalted butter
• 1 small jar marshmallow cream (7 oz.)
• 12 oz. bag of mixed semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts*

Instructions

1. Lightly butter a 9" x 9" baking pan.
2. In a heavy pan, cook milk, sugar, and butter until a drop in cold water forms a soft ball, (approximately 5 minutes), stirring continually.
3. Remove from heat and add morsels stirring until melted.
4. Add the marshmallow cream and continue to stir until all is combined.
5. Mix in chopped walnuts* Optional.
6. Pour into prepared baking pan and let cool.
7. Cut into squares after it is firm and cool.

Notes

Recipe can easily be doubled.
Recipe provided by my friend Peggy Payne.

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