Chocolate Covered Caramels

Total Time: 21 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 vanilla caramels, individually wrapped
• 50 g chocolate wafers (your choice, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate)
• candy sprinkles
• peanuts, unsalted chopped
• miniature marshmallow
• graham wafer crumbs
• raisins

Recipe

• 1 unwrap the caramels and place the unwrapped caramels on a dinner plate covered in waxed paper.
• 2 break wooden skewers into 4 or 5 pieces each (or use round toothpicks or those little plastic swards often used for drinks) and insert a small piece of the skewer into each caramel (to create a small lollypop type appearance).
• 3 measure out the chocolate wafers, put chocolate into small ramekin microwavable cups.
• 4 microwave on low (i use power 5 or 6) for 10 to 15 seconds at a time, stirring often to ensure the chocolate does not burn.
• 5 since you are only covering 8 caramels in chocolate, to make sure the chocolate does not harden, fill a cereal or soup bowl with a small amount of hot tap water; place the ramekin with the melted chocolate in the bowl of water so the warm water surrounds the ramekin - be careful not to get any water in the melted chocolate.
• 6 pick up the caramel by its stick and dip into the chocolate; spread the chocolate onto the surface of the caramel (i used a small pickle fork to do this).
• 7 immediately dip the chocolate covered caramel into your desired toppings - note the chocolate hardens very quickly once on the caramel.
• 8 place the decorated chocolate caramel back onto the dinner plate so the chocolate can fully harden.
• 9 repeat this process with all caramels; once finished store the chocolate covered caramels in a sealed container or wrap individually in plastic wrap for gifts.
• 10 idea - s'more caramel; cut mini marshmallows in half, cover caramel with dark or milk chocolate, immediately place the cut marshmallows onto the chocolate surface of the caramel, let dry, spread a small amount of chocolate onto each marshmallow and immediately dip in graham wafer crumbs.