Bye Bye Room 9

Yesterday afternoon I set out to make a little last-day-of-school snack for the office staff, principal, yard duty and teacher.

I wanted to make saltine toffee, but create a {summery} version using white chocolate instead and adding some dolphin shaped sprinkles and aqua blue sanding sugar. I also had visions of marbling blue and green into the white chocolate…..easier said than done!

The first batch was a total fail. I went off memory {not good!} and didn’t set the oven hot enough. When I poured the white chocolate chips onto the toffee immediately out of the oven, they didn’t melt. I returned the pan to the oven hoping that they’d melt faster and allowing me to spread easily with a knife. Not so.

I then referred to the recipe I used over the holidays and set the oven to the correct setting this time! I also slowly melted the next bag of white chocolate chips in the microwave on 50% power ~ starting with 1 minute, stirring, another minute, then stir again until blended. Once the second batch came out I poured on the melted chocolate and let it sit a couple minutes before spreading with a knife. Much. Better.

In the meantime, I reserved a bit of the white chocolate chips in a small bowl, melted those and added just a couple drops of blue and green color gel and mixed that up. After I spread the white chocolate smooth, I dropped little dots of the blue and green and then ran a knife through it for the {marbled} look. Didn’t quite turn out how I’d hoped, but wasn’t terrible. I then dusted it with some dolphin sprinkles and sanding sugar and put it into the fridge to cool and set up.

Then broke into pieces…

…and decided it wasn’t too awful to package up and share!

I put about a dozen or so pieces of toffee into a sandwich sized ziploc and then stuck that into some little blue lunch bags that I picked up at Dollar Tree {10 for a buck}.

I used leftover green ribbon and some old, unused birthday invitations to attach a little handwritten note,

“Happy Summer!  ~ White Chocolate Saltine Toffee ~ From the Aspiras Family”

I must admit that I like the toffee better using either milk or semi-sweet chocolate, but I thought the white chocolate was much more summery. Plus you can add more color using the white and tailor to all sorts of holidays.

Here is our almost-first-grader holding a goodie for Mrs. P, the principal:

…and here they are delivering it to her office…

And here is E with Mrs. R, who makes sure all the little ones are safe before school and out on the play ground:

*****

Room 9 had the cutest, sweetest group of Kinders…

We certainly hope to have some fun summer play dates.

“Yay! First Grade!”

Bye! Bye! Room 9…it’s been a GREAT year!