Sweet Sixteen

My Great Grandma Fairbanks (Madge) from Canada had 10 kids.  She taught kindergarten and piano, but still needed some extra cash to send their youngest on a mission.  So, Madge started her own business called Sweet 16 from her own little kitchen.  She called it that because she made 16 varieties of chocolates.  She was very successful, and passed the receipe down to her kids who passed it down to her kids who have now passed it on to me!

In past years we have each made two batches of fondant prior to meeting up to cut, roll, dip and package - which took at least 12 hours.  So this year, we still made the fondant ahead of time, but figured it would probably be more fun and relaxing if we could spread the work out over two days and sleepover at mom and dad's (pretend like we were the kids again).  It was my mom, me and Stacy, and my dad was "gopher", putting our hair in pony tails, taking pictures, bringing us drinks... and stuff like that!

So the first night when we finished, the four of us went out to dinner at a BBQ place, then watched movies til we fell asleep...way better than having to drive back home wasted!...and by wasted, I mean tired of course :)

The next day was full speed ahead.  Made 90 boxes of these bad boys!

Alot of work...super fun.  I'm pretty positive the ancestors didn't use this 3 ft custom candy paddle on their behinds like we did!  But they should have...so stupid, it's funny :)

(p.s.  for those lucky friends who received a box of chocolates, you will be relieved to know that the paddle never touched the chocolates, only my sweet derriere!)

...until next year ladies!