CHOCOLATE SEAFOAM

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Preserved Traditions a sampling of St. Andrews recipes
Mrs. Charles (Lynn) Smith

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Ingredients

  • Directions:
  • 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
  • 1/4 cup cold water
  • 1 (5 ½ ounce) can (½ cup) Hershey’s chocolate flavored syrup
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 square baking chocolate, melted
  • ½ cup nuts, chopped
  • ● Mix together sugar, water, and chocolate syrup in a heavy 3 quart saucepan.
  • ● Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves and mixture boils.
  • ● Cook to a hard ball stage (250 degrees) without stirring; Remove pan from heat.
  • ● While syrup is cooking, beat egg whites until stiff.
  • ● Pour hot syrup in a thin stream over beaten egg whites beating constantly at high speed with an electric mixer; Continue beating until mixture forms peaks when dropped from a spoon (about 10 minutes).
  • ●Quickly stir in vanilla and melted baking chocolate by hand.
  • ● Blend in nuts and drop by teaspoon fulls onto waxed paper. Cool.

Preparation

Step 1

This is like a chocolate divinity.