White Chocolate Cherries

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Looking for a change from chocolate covered strawberries? Why not try white chocolate covered cherries with silver dragées? This gorgeous accent melds candy with fruit and shows off the deep red of the cherries, the white chocolate and the off-white sugar pearls. To find the recipe go to Simple Pleasures. They offer a step by step set of directions that are easy to follow.

These aren't hard to make and you can easily make them ahead of time for a wedding or other special occasion. Depending on where you live, if cherries are in season for the Christmas holidays, these almost look like little holiday ornaments. 

Keep in mind, you can pit these ahead of time and fill the hole where the pit was with a white chocolate chip or liquid white chocolate. I'd prefer not to have to have my guests having to pit the cherries as they eat them, but I do like the stem left on for ease of serving. They also make a great hostess gift. So enjoy!

Fancy Cupcakes?

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Fancy cupcakes that zing? Try Pop Rocks cupcakes. What a nice surprise at your wedding shower! I love them in pinks, but you can use any color Pop Rocks available to match your color scheme. Or you CAN make your own rock candy, color it to match your color scheme, and crush it so it resembles Pop Rocks. I love the way the pinks are different colors in this photo, it makes a nice photo not to mention an attractive presentation for your dessert buffet. So enjoy making your Pop Rocks cupcakes. For a recipe visit Betty Crocker.

Having a Candy Buffet?

There are a lot of different ways to make your guests feels special, one is by having a candy buffet. When your venue coordinator asks if you want a buffet, say yes, a candy buffet!  More brides are adding a candy buffet to their wedding day as a way to let guests choose their own favor or as an additional sweet for the end of a meal.  Brides who want to color coordinate their candy buffet can either visit a warehouse club and try to find their wedding colors or they can do some one stop shopping at Candy Warehouse.  Candy Warehouse has every candy imaginable and many old fashioned favorites made in your favorite colors.  Looking for black wrapped Hershey Kisses?  This is your source!  Colorful pink candies, they have more than you could ever imagine.  Gold or silver accents? They have those too.  I don't recommend buying all your candy here. For instance, if you want silver wrapped Hershey Kisses, go to your warehouse store.  Or if you're near a holiday when they have red candies out, buy them at the warehouse store as well.  Reserve candy warehouse for hard to find colors in your old favorites or some new to you candies in your wedding color or theme.  Candy Warehouse has several YouTube videos to help you with setting up your candy buffet.  Take advantage of their expertise and their selections of colorful candies.