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Food of the Gods Spotlight - Peach Candy Cantres

 Hello. C J here. I've been doing some more chocolate science and I've got my last two major goals to work. The goal is to make fancy fruit or nut flavoured truffles, the kind with cream or ganache centres. I have a peach flavored cream for one of my goals and a hard peach flavored sugar centre for the other. Here's the recipes.




Peach Soft Candy Cream

Two Peach Hebal Tea Bags

Two Tablespoons Milk

One Quarter Cup Sweetened Condensed Milk

One Half Cup White Sugar


For the Peach Soft Candy Cream

In a small saucepan over low heat simmer the tea bags in the milk for 3 minutes.


Remove the tea bags and add the sweetened condensed milk and white sugar. Stir with a wooden spatula over low until the sugar combines with the milk. Take off the heat and let cool.


For the Peach Hard Candy Filling

Follow the same steps but omit the milk. Steep the tea bags in the sweetened condensed milk and add the sugar after removing them. Be very careful to stir often and not caramelize the sugars. Let cool and use as a candy filling. This recipe is still being refined.


Now, if you've been following this series for a while you are probably aware that I also have a chocolate ganache, a peanut butter and a planned almond paste filling as well. You might be wondering why so many fillings and why these ones. Vitamins. I've looked into it and with the right recipes and my knowledge of biochemistry it should be possible to get every vitamin from chocolate. It has iron and antioxidants already along with a ton of healthy effects. Protein from nuts and milk ingredients. Vitamins from nuts,l. Jam for Vitamin C. Cookies wrapped in chocolate for riboflavin and folate. Could you eat only chocolate and be healthier because of it?


Well, I'm going to find out. I just need to finish the list of recipes first.


C J Mcpherson 



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