Wedding Blog

Great that you’re getting the containers to borrow. A friend of mine actually has a few jars as a permanent candy/snack display in her house on an end table in some of those containers. Makes for easy snacking for live in family as well as visiting friends. I’ve been buying mine on the cheap from second hand stores as I find them. We’re going to have a combination of containers trays and stands for the munchy buffet. I love the candy apple idea and am thinking about making a few for our wedding as well. I’ve made carmal apples before with the tubs of caramel dip you can buy from the produce section and I can tell you it can be pretty thick. It did stick to the sides but also tended to puddle on the bottom of the apple. I’m not sure if a homemade caramel sauce would work any differently. A friend of mine and I plan to have a caramel apple night soon so perhaps we’ll try that. You could also melt the caramel cubes individual rapped candies and try using that as well. Chocolate dipped apples are also good. Toppings are easy to put together also. Things like chopped nuts, chopped oreos or other cookies (maybe ginger snaps), mini marshmallows, toffee bits, minced butter finger bars, toasted coconut and other things. You can also color white cholate and drizzle that on to add your wedding colors. Do a search on google for shops that sell caramel and choclate covered appels for more ideas. You can’t make the caramel or chcolate covered ones and expect them to last a week. The apples will go bad. When we make some more I’m goign to make one of each and see how long they will last. I know from the last time we made them the apple around the sticks were brown so I’m thinking alos about trying to dip the sticks in citric acid or maybe lemon juice before they go into the apples to prevent this.
I’m also thinking about making some of the candy myself. I’ve made toffee and chocolate chunks like almond roca before that’s always a hit. I’m going to try some homemade marshmallows this week. Truffles are pretty easy to make but, can be time consuming. I have a recipe for a candy like snickers bar that can be cut into cubes. I’ll also likely be making butter mints, and candied nuts. The Mr and I both love popcorn so we’ll have bags premade the night before so they won’t go stale sitting out. There are advantages of making snacks that can be cut or borken into bite size pieces vs. ones that will have to be rolled and shaped; it will take less time to make and shape, and they will hold their shape easier once on display. I’m also thinking about possibly having a couple different kinds of cookies and maybe brownies. Still in the planning stages though.