I still get a little carried away when it comes to my Christmas candy making. There are so many things I like and so many I want to try that I don't know when to stop.

Saturday I made the peanut butter balls and the coconut balls. This morning I got up to start on all the others. After spicing up some nuts, it was time to break out the new digital candy thermometer that Mark got me last Christmas. This was to come in handy as I made all my batches of peanut brittle.

Well it took me a while to get the hang of placing it on the side of the pan. It kept falling off the side and onto the stove. I am not proud of the words passing these lips! Then I am getting the comments from the peanut gallery (haha) - "Remember I like it light colored." Well, imagine my thoughts at that comment! I took out the old thermometer and started using it and then finally got the hang of hanging (huh?) the new one on the pan. I used them both at the same time to see how they compared. Temperatures stayed the same through the soft ball stage, but when we got to the critical hard crack stage the new digital hovered around the high 280s, while the old regular shot past 300. What to do? Better trust the tried and true old one cuz, we need to make sure it is "light colored!!"

Anyway, hope y'all are ready for some sugar cuz I need to get rid of this stuff before we eat it all!