Sweets to the sweet

Weirdly, as I started to type this post, the Mika song "Lollipop" has just started playing on my iPod.  "Sucking too hard on your lollipop, oh, love's gonna get you down"!!!

Anyway on to the sweets.....

A couple of weeks ago I made an essential purchase, a silicone chocolate mould.  Then we were invited out for dinner, so I thought I'd make some homemade post-dessert goodies for our hosts - a good excuse to try out the choccie mould.

Of course, being something of a sweet monster, I wasn't prepared to stop at the chocolate mould.....oh, no!

Ta-dah........dark chocolate and stem ginger truffles.

Not bad for a first attempt with the new toy!

As Kevin is to fudge what Imelda Marcos is to shoes, there had to be some fudge.

Walnut fudge, featuring walnuts from our own tree - how fab is that?

Coconut Ice apparently doesn't exist in France.......

except at La Folie!

The first time I made Coconut Ice for some French neighbours, in the pauses between squares, they asked why it was pink and white.  Kevin and I both replied, "Because it is."  If anyone knows the real reason why Coconut Ice is always pink and white, I'd love to know!!

And because happiness is homemade,

so was the packaging!