‘Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas!

This was supposed to be a blog post with beautiful pictures of hand dipped and decorated Opera Cream candy to take to my parent’s house for Christmas Eve. Then El Nino happened. Thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Warm temperatures and high humidity do strange things to sugar and chocolate. My candy morphed into something from…

Homemade Opera Creams

As a child, opera creams were frequently a part of Easter for my family. My Grandma S. faithfully sent a huge opera cream egg for each member of the family when we couldn’t make it to Northern Kentucky for the holiday. If I close my eyes, I can remember the scent that filled the air…