Alice's Fondant Filling For Chocolates

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup cream
• 2 teaspoons light karo syrup or 2 teaspoons lily syrup

Recipe

• 1 combine ingredients in heavy saucepan. boil until it reaches a soft ball stage. pour into buttered dish to cool.
• 2 after mixture is cooled, pour on clean surface and beat with wooden paddles until light and airy. just as mixture "turns" mix in flavoring until thoroughly blended inches.
• 3 refrigerate to cool completely. form into balls. dip in desired chocolate.
• 4 variations:.
• 5 peppermint (peppermint extract to taste).
• 6 maple walnut (maple flavoring to taste and finely chopped walnuts).
• 7 orange (orange extract to taste--a few drops to 1/2 teaspoon).
• 8 cherry (maraschino cherries drained and quartered--pat dry).
• 9 cherry-almond (as above but add almond extract to taste).
• 10 almond (almond extract with a sliced almond on top of finished chocolate).
• 11 coconut (fine coconut plus vanilla).
• 12 rum (rum extract plus 1-2 teaspoons butter).