A Sweetheart of a Dinner, Part 2

Yesterday I posted some highlights of the Sunday Dinner I recently prepared for my family.  Here are the desserts I promised to share.

I started by making a few pralines.

The ingredients.

A little bubbling action going on while the candy cooks.  After it reached soft ball stage I removed the pan from the heat and stirred in pecan halves.

The candy was spooned onto parchment paper, and then set aside to cool.  I wish you could have smelled them….so intoxicating.

After they cooled, I chopped up a few pralines to be used with my Chocolate Dipped Strawberries.  The rest were individually wrapped and saved for later.

These strawberries were dipped in white chocolate and then drizzled with bittersweet chocolate, rolled in toasted pecans, and rolled in my homemade pralines.  Don’t worry…we didn’t eat them all at once.

Finally there were Molten Lava Cakes.  I received this recipe via a promotional email from the Metropolitan Cooking Show.  It seemed fairly simple so I tried it.

See that stream of melted chocolate getting all mixed up into the batter.  Miss A thought it was kinda cool.  Me too.

They’re all ready for the oven.

Now it’s ready to be eaten.

Mmmmm.  My family loves me now.  Let’s see what they think of me next week when I serve them salads, raw veggies and fresh fruit.  {laughing on the inside}.

Did you miss the dinner details?  Read about it here.

Thanks for stopping by!