I made a little treat Sunday – inspired by this blog: http://www.bakerella.com/a-valentines-day-gift-box-of%E2%80%A6/.

My version is definitely different, first i went with a pink box instead of red to cut down on the food coloring since I didn’t have any no-flavor red coloring and too much red can be bitter.  Second I used chocolate cake and chocolate frosting for the cake and cake treats instead of red velvet.

I used a mixture of milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate for the candy coatings.  I’m pretty happy with my results, it was the first time I ever used fondant and I had some fun making the chocolate covered cake shapes.  I did learn one thing – to use the double boiler method for melting the chocolate instead of my candy maker – the boiler worked great for the white and pink but the chocolate dips were too thick using the candy maker.  Lessons learned 🙂

box of chocolates - all made of cake and chocolate

another angle

extra chocolates

Off to see my nieces today – can’t wait!