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Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

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Homemade Fifth Avenue Candy

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My sister and brother-in-law make these delicious candies every year and often give them away in Christmas gifts. This year I was lucky enough to get to make them with my sister…..you should not expect any as gift this year as I brought most of them home with me (well, minus what we ate on the long car ride home :))

Soooo….I decided I had better share how to make them in light of this year’s shortage.


 

Recipe: Fifth Avenue Candy

Ingredients

  1. butter, enough to grease pan
  2. 18 oz. peanut butter
  3. confectioner’s sugar, enough to coat pan
  4. 2 c. sugar
  5. 1 c. water
  6. 2/3 c. corn syrup

Instructions

  1. Grease 10″ or 12″ skillet with butter.
  2. Mound peanut butter in center of skillet.

  3. Coat a cookie sheet with confectioner’s sugar.
  4. Combine sugar, water, and corn syrup in a large sauce pan or pot.
  5. Cook sugar mixture until it reaches the hard crack on a candy thermometer.

  6. Pour sugar mixture over peanut butter in skillet and STIR LIKE MAD.
  7. Immediately pour on prepared cookie sheet.
  8. Immediately roll out/ smooth to 1/2″ to 1/4″ thickness.
  9. Cut into rectangles with pizza cutter.

  10. Let cool completely.
  11. Coat with melted candy coating or tempered chocolate.

Notes

You need to move fast after the sugar mixture reaches hard crack until you get the candy cut with a pizza cutter; the candy hardens very quickly.

Merckens or similar chocolate melted in a double boiler or microwave works well for coating or dipping.

Copyright © 2012.
Recipe by Paula, A Simple Home Cook.

They really do taste a lot like Fifth Ave candy bars. Plus, they are fun to make with the family as the kids can help with dipping the centers into melted chocolate (obviously, the kids should not be around the kitchen during the molten sugar phase of making them).

Comments

  1. Hey,OMG thx for this recipe. I cant wait to go home and show my parents how to cook my favorite candy bar. So shout out to whoever wrote this magnificent recipe. thx and god bless!

  2. No. This might be a Butterfinger copycat, but the REAL 5th avenue bars I love have a definite molasses flavor that this recipe leaves out. Please correct the title to “Butterfinger copycat recipe”. Thank you.