Baking....

Today is the day to bake....I am making 3 cinnamon rings...Mike will take one to work and one to his good friend Matt and his family...I am not sure who I will give the other one to but I am sure Missy will have a recipient,,,

Then I am making white and chocolate truffles..
Recipe...
Cook 4 cake chocolate mixes
After they have cooked and cooled crumble into a BIG bowl.
Add 1 package mini chocolate chips and 1 can of canned frosting.

Smash all of this together
form into balls...smaller than a golf ball. Maybe half that size...
lay them all out on cookie sheets and let them dry overnight..

I can never plan that far ahead so I throw mine in the freezer for about an hour.

Then melt almond bark with about an inch piece of paraffin mixed in...
note you will have to melt the paraffin before adding to the almond bark because it has to get hotter to melt. The paraffin makes the chocolate get harder when cooled.
Then take a plastic fork and remove the middle 2 prongs and use that to dip each cake roll in the chocolate. swipe off the excess chocolate off the bottom so they will be pretty and not puddled on the bottom...Let set up on wax paper...
warning this makes A LOT!!!

Then I make white ones using white cake mixes, white mini chocolate chips, white frosting and dip in white almond bark...

I always save just a little white and dark almond bark and drizzle it over the top...the chocolate on the white ones and the white on the chocolate ones..
These taste like the real truffles which takes hours to make the real ones...

I also have made a batch of banana bread and carrot pineapple cake like Thelma used to make..and I am cooking them in the jars and I am going to Can them...They are in the oven with the 2 chocolate cakes...I have many more to bake before I am done...

I will give most of these away to friends for a little Christmas something...I know you all are saying Helen, you don't have that many friends but Mike has relatives and Missy has co workers...All I have is Doctors...