{"id":3367,"date":"2018-12-05T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2018-12-06T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T17:19:20","slug":"cooking-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Cooking class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that I love anything that has lots of sugar and butter in the recipe (although it does not necessarily love me back).\u00a0 One of my friends has taken a lot of classes at a local cooking school, and she talked about how much fun this was.\u00a0 So I decided I might give this a go, especially as the class used my favored ingredients.\u00a0 And I found out how simple it is to make toffee, particularly if someone else does all the prep work.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>They had toasted and chopped 10 1\/2 ounces of almonds and separated it into chunky bits and dust.\u00a0 \u00a0We put 8 ounces of butter, 8 ounces of sugar, 3 ounces of water and 1\/2 teaspoon of salt in a pan and took it over to the induction stove top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3368\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee-965x1024.jpg 965w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is boiling merrily away.\u00a0 \u00a0Then we put in a candy thermometer, gave it a stir from time to time, and 25 minutes later it looked like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3369\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee1-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee1-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee1-768x863.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee1-911x1024.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is boiling hot at this point, so we carefully tipped in the large bits of almond (saving the fine particles for topping), and spread it out on a half sheet pan.\u00a0 \u00a0Then we sprinkled 7 ounces of chocolate chips over the top.\u00a0 \u00a0As it was boiling hot, the chips quickly melted and we slathered them over the top and added a fine almond dust over everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3370\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee2-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee2-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee2-768x649.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee2-1024x866.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really look very appetizing at this point, in fact it looks rather like a large cow pie (although it smells much better).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3371\" src=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee3-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee3-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee3-768x875.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flytippings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/toffee3-899x1024.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now it looks delicious!\u00a0 \u00a0As there were several groups of people in the class, we made different flavors of toffee and got to take home some of each.\u00a0 \u00a0So I have white chocolate raisin toffee, dark chocolate coconut toffee, dark chocolate and milk chocolate toffees.\u00a0 Now all I have to do is package this up for friends and avoid eating all of this myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that I love anything that has lots of sugar and butter in the recipe (although it does not necessarily love me back).\u00a0 One of my friends has taken a lot of classes at a local cooking school, and she talked about how much 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