Comments on: orangettes

By: Carin

Carin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:30:18 +0000

SO DOING THIS I think I will try to make rings out of them though?

By: The Bug

The Bug — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:01:33 +0000

I made these for christmas gifts this past year and they were AMAZING-ly fantastic! everyone loved them, and i had a difficult time not hoarding them all to my self!

By: Linda N.

Linda N. — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:23:13 +0000

I plan on trying these. My mom used to make candied orange peels for us kids but she would make chocolate covered ones for dad. This was almost 50 years ago. I was thinking it would be hard to find the recipe. It is my dad’s 74th birthday today and mom passed away 3 years ago. I thought this might be a nice thing to try and make him for his birthday. Thanks.

By: RT

RT — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:57:36 +0000

Hi Deb,
As always, your recipe worked perfectly — these orangettes were just lovely. Your lime/white chocolate idea sounds killer too. Thank you so much! /R

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:45:46 +0000

Well, I should have watched mine a little more closely over the hour, as I ended up with the equivalent of candied orange marbles… and a pan filled with the hardest caramel I’ve ever seen. Oops! I am definitely trying again today, and will just do a much, much lower heat for the simmer, and see what happens!

By: stacy

stacy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:14:46 +0000

Absolutely amazing! I will make again and again and again!!!

By: Stacey

*Stacey* — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:03:24 +0000

I followed the recipe verbatim and my peels also turned out “mushy.” When you bite into the candy, the orange peels are extremely soft and moist. I was hoping for something with more of a snap!
Would freezing the orange peels before submerging in chocolate work?
Any suggestions?

By: deb

deb — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:36:15 +0000

Celia — Ha! Learned the hard way that there’s a steam pipe running behind my kitchen cabinet. Could there possibly be a worse location for it? Anyway, keep chocolate as far from the heat sources as possible. I keep mine in a side drawer in the living room, which is odd, but better than the mess of expensive heartbreaking I had to throw away that time.

By: Celia

Celia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:10:28 +0000

As a fellow New Yorker, I’d love any tips you might have for storing chocolate in tiny, steam-heated apartments…the fridge is probably too cold and moist, but it might as well be summertime with the temperature in my building!

By: ~Natural Little Mother~

~Natural Little Mother~ — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:54:20 +0000

I can’t wait to try this recipe out!