Caramel Toffee Dip Using Heath Toffee Bits

You know the Boy Scout saying, "Do A Good Turn Daily"?

Who knew that doing a good turn would result in a 

delicious new recipe?

I was at the grocery store the other day when I saw my

elderly neighbor Madelyn.  I stopped to chat and

she was frustrated because she couldn't find

any Heath Toffee Bits.  She also commented on

how important it was to get these for a group

that was coming over and that she had come all

the way out in the terrible snowy weather.

She had looked in the baking aisle and had

asked a clerk and they said to check the candy aisle.

After chatting and wishing her luck with finding

the Toffee bits, I walked away.  Then the thought

came to me to go and check the baking aisle for her.

I try to act on those moments of inspiration and

I headed off to the baking aisle rather than

to the checkout stand.  Sure enough, there they

were tucked away on the side, easy to miss.

I grabbed a bag for her and one for me.  I wanted

the recipe to this dip that would include Heath Toffee Bits.

I caught up with Madelyn and she was thrilled.  Now she didn't 

have to try another store.  She quickly got the recipe off

her smart phone that her daughter had send her.

Caramel Toffee Dip

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1/2 C. sugar

1/2 C. brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

5/8 C. Heath Toffee Bits (the recipe called

for half a bag so I measure the bag and it was 1 1/4 C.)

Place the cream cheese, sugars and vanilla in mixing bowl

and mix until creamy.  Mix in the Heath Toffee Bits.

Place in a smaller bowl and cover and refrigerate for

several hours or overnight for the flavors to blend.

Serve with fresh fruit and cookies.

It is so delicious - creamy and caramelly and filled with

soft crunchy bits.

I served mine with bananas, Gala apples, fresh raspberries (I would

have used strawberries but I had the raspberries, and Chessman cookies.

It is delicious all by itself.  I liked the Chessman cookies best

and then the bananas.  My daughter liked the apples best and

hubby loved it all, but we all agreed it was great straight from

the spoon. 

Thanks Madelyn.

Super easy and quick and super delicious.

I will be posting with

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Congratulations Graduate!

My baby has graduated! 

 It is hard to believe that

our youngest of five is a high school graduate and

will be leaving us for college in the fall.

This one is just too funny with Mom and Dad giving him

a kiss on the cheek.  I just love the look on his face!!

Graduation was unusual as it was at 7:00 pm so that by the time

we got out and could take pictures it was dark.

The surprise of the evening was that he was in charge of

the senior class video and his name was on the program

and announced during the evening for his creative work

on that.  The video was great.

We made him a money lei with a few food gift certificates

thrown in.  He and his dad are leaving for a trip to

Israel and Jordan

for his senior trip in a couple of days.  

It will be a wonderful experience for them. 

Since he graduated so late, we took him out to dinner for

sushi that night and had a combined dinner with his cousin for

him the next night.  I was asked to bring a fruit platter so I made

one similar to the one my graduate from culinary arts school

made a little while ago.  She was supposed to help but didn't

get off work until too late.  I found the cute little candy diplomas

and graduation caps at a local party store - Zurchers.

So with several graduations and a new grandbaby and

travel  two building projects and another grandbaby due 

three weeks from today

things have been hopping at Purple Chocolat Home.

I am so glad you came to visit today.  I have been so busy

that I totally missed celebrating my two year anniversary of

blogging on May 20th.

  I have loved it and everyone has been so supportive!

Thank you!!!

Showstopping Fruit Platter

Wow, now that is a fruit platter that makes your mouth water!

My youngest daughter will 

be graduating from 

Culinary Art School 

this week and I just had to feature

her final project.  She graduated last year with a one

year certificate and this year she will be finished with

her two year certificate.  She had to complete a 10 hour

project of her choosing and this huge culinary creation

is half of her project.  The other half will be putting on

a pizza party using our pizza oven for her classmates

where she does all of the prep and manages the fire

and of course the clean up.

I wanted to get photos as this project was so impressive

and I knew my readers would want to see it.  She was 

surprised to see me show up at school and said she could

have just taken photos with her phone!

Ha ha - I need better photos to post than that.

I love this part of the presentation - she has scooped out the bottom

of a pineapple and filled it with chocolate covered strawberries.

These were actually the first Bling Bling Berries we made

even though I posted the others first.

She dipped all of the berries herself.

She did all of it herself, including coming up with the idea.  I just love

the pineapple flowers with a grape center.

Everything sits in a large watermelon that she flattened the bottom of

and then took the top off.  The parsley comes from our garden and is

held in around the rim with floral picks or wide bobbie pins.

Then clusters of black and green grapes alternate around the rim of

the melon.  She filled the center with skewers of assorted fruit and

then placed more parsley around the bottom and tucked in additional

chocolate covered strawberries in assorted chocolates.

I caught up with her when she wasn't quite finished.  It was fun

to see her work and to see her classmates come over to 

compliment her on how beautifully it had turned out.

She started her first year in a much smaller kitchen but the school

built a wonderful new building with a

  3.1 million dollar kitchen.

What a wonderful place to learn and to cook.

It makes me want to go to Culinary Arts School!

Wouldn't this be wonderful for a wedding or a shower or other

special occasion?

Here she is with her teacher Tony inspecting her final project.

How fun to have been there to see her finish putting it together

and showing it off.

We are so proud of her accomplishments  -

now we just need to get her to cook for us more!!!!

Actually, doing this was what inspired her wonderful

fruit bouquet that she gave me for Mother's Day!

I want to show this off at

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