MIKolbe Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 If you don't EAT the chocolate bunnies, they will melt in the next heat wave. That is very slow torture for them. Don't subject them to the SUMMER... enjoy them NOW! Funny Story.... Easter 1990... I was working at the grocery store on Easter, got off work, and went to Shea's Aunt's house to celebrate. I got her little cousin a chocolate easter bunny...you know.. cause i'm such a nice frickin guy. Well.. I am so excited about seeing Shea that I forget the bunny in the car. in about 30 minutes the bunny was melted and deflated looking. I remembered that I had left the bunny in the car, so I went to go get it and hand it to the youngling. I did not even look at the bunny since I wasn't gonna eat it.... I handed it to Shea's cousin and she started crying because "I killed the bunny". We all kinda looked around, then Shea took the package and started to laugh (as she now knew what her little cousin meant). Her little cousin is now close to 30 and still never lets me forget it. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartermia Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 PEEPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AugustineA Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Woke up.. Ate half of a giant chocolate bunny. :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Chocolate bunnies have deposited some yummy chocolate eggs in AnneLineLand. They are hatched literally just over San Bruno Mountain from my house at the See's Candy factory. So... as we belive in eating local, we are enjoying a brunch of eggs! THE EGG BRIGADE ... The South San Francisco factory pulls out around a dozen of its 110 daily staff to hand-decorate large chocolate eggs during the Easter season. See's makes many other Easter products, but the hand-painted eggs have been a staple of the repertoire since the late 1920s. "It truly is a tradition," says company vice president Richard Van Doren, who has been at See's for 43 years. "It's gratifying to hear from customers who grew up on them, from grandfathers to grandkids." See's Candies was founded in 1921 in Los Angeles, and though it still has a factory there, the company now is headquartered in South San Francisco. Other than a couple of items that get hand touches, the decorated eggs are the only product to be completely decorated by hand. The three types of decorated eggs -- Rocky Road, Chocolate Butter Pecan and Chocolate Butter Egg with Walnuts -- weigh between 7 1/2 to 13 1/2 ounces, big enough for a family to share. They're made by machine, but decorated by 13 women who paint the eggs by hand. Holding parchment paper pastry bags, the decorators pipe out a frilly white border with a flat pastry tip, and use small round tips to create bright green stems and decorative leaves. They add sugar roses and rosebuds about the size of the blooms on a miniature rosebush. A ROSE IS A ROSE A few workers focus on making the yellow and pink roses. The decorators use a flat pastry tip to pipe circles onto a little metal stand, curling the circles down occasionally to create a petal effect, then setting the flowers aside to dry. One of the rosemakers is Victoria Barajas, who has been hand-decorating See's Easter eggs for about 30 years. At other times of the year, Barajas makes bonbons. But for two months before Easter, all she does is make roses. Barajas says despite her job she doesn't make sweets at her home in San Bruno. "A lot of my friends (at work) make decorated cakes, but not me," she says. "I'm not good at cakes." That's hard to believe while watching Barajas twirl out expert-looking roses by the minute. Each worker decorates an average of 60 eggs per hour, says production manager Bob McIntyre. "I always call it the garden of See's," says Van Doren. "Especially when all the ladies are down there working. All the rosebuds are out there and all the stems." (from San Francisco Chronicle).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Actually, both Mr AL and I prefer the smaller, hen's sized 'Bordeaux' eggs.... Bordeaux Egg - I’ve never been quite sure what the Bordeaux See’s piece was until I looked it up on their website. It comes in a round piece in most boxes of chocolates in either milk or dark chocolate, and has some little jimmies on it. This piece was milk chocolate. The jimmies are actually pretty good, instead of being minute waxy rods made to look like chocolate, they might actually be chocolate. The Bordeaux filling is called a brown sugar buttercream. It’s light and creamy, with a cooling feel on the tongue like powdered sugar but a mild caramel taste comes into play. more info here.... http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/sees_egg_quartet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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