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[blunder1983]

Hi guys,

One thing I'm doing for my winter camp this year is making a butt load of sweets with the kids.

So far I have
Rice Crispie cakes,
Fudge,
Truffles,
Peppermint Creams,
Coconut Ice,
Marzipan fruits.

This means I need: Marzipan, condensed milk, food colouring and flavourings (vanilla and peppermint). Chocolate and other more mundane things I know where to get but these things are throwing me, any suggestions?

Also can you think of any easy non-hotthing required recipes for sweets that I've missed? After we cook it all we're gonna open the class as a load of shops and they have to buy the sweets they made with fake money. After that I'll probably cower in the corner as 15 students all get high on a massive intake of sugar.

[thursdays child]

You can buy conensed milk most places - but it comes in plastic bottle that looks like creamy salad dressing - can't remeber the Korean name.

Vanilla flavoring comes in a powder and it lives by the sugar in the shops.

[xtchr]

Condensed milk also comes in a tin, sometimes found in amongst the baby foods/milk formula.

[periwinkle]

Chocolate , vanilla and peppermint, food colorings, chocolate, etc. can be found on the candy pages on www.ehomebaking.com You can't buy marzipan here, and you can't buy almond paste, either. You can make your own marzipan with ground almonds and powdered sugar. You can get the almonds and powdered sugar on that site, too. You'll need almond extract, as well. I think Dandy's Grocery at Hannam Supermarket sells almond extract. Maybe you can ask them to order you some.

If I were you, I'd forget about the marzipan. I have some left over if you really want it (it stays good for months. Mine's 2 weeks old). How about popcorn balls? You can get corn syrup at all the supermarkets, and it's cheaper than marzipan.

Good luck- it's a good idea, but helluva mess to clean up.

[blunder1983]

Great, marzipan is gonna be too hard to make and i wasnt too sure about it anyway, my sis isnt that big a fan and its quite common to not like it.

How about chocolate sprinkles for the truffles? Will Costco stock em? Hannam?

[Grotto]

Hannam carries chocolate sprinkles...or did at least.