welcome Deronda here with foods 101 valentine's day is tomorrow and i'm giving you heads up on
how to make this chocolate billionaire candy absolutely scrumptious and everyone loves it the
ingredients you're going to need is three fourths of a cup of chopped pecans one and a half cups of
milk chocolate chips or if you'd like to use dark chocolate chips or white chocolate chips you'd
be my guess one teaspoon of coconut oil if you don't have coconut oil go ahead and use an all
vegetable shortening we're gonna melt this in with these chocolate chips and it's gonna give it this
lovely glossy look 24 squares of caramel they come in a bag individually wrapped we're just
going to have to unwrap them your caramels will come in a 14 ounce bag individually wrapped one
and a half tablespoons of water and one half cup of rice cereal such as rice krispies are special
okay let me show you how simple and easy this is to get together in a two quart sauce pan over low
heat make sure your heat's low we're going to add all of our little squares of caramel with
that tablespoon and a half of water stir until all the caramels have completely melted this is a
little time consuming but it's well worth it this is about halfway through melting those caramels
they're getting lovely and soft right now this should take about another three minutes remember
low and slow to melt your caramels now that our caramel has melted i'm gonna turn off the heat
add your pecans and your rice cereal give these a lovely little stirring until it's well combined
now i'm only making half the recipe but i've added the full recipe below in the description box so
check it out if you want to make the full recipe over here to our cookie sheet that i've lined
with parchment paper if you don't have parchment paper just go ahead and give it a light little
buttering just very little butter or you can use the silicone mat just a regular spoon i'm going
to go in here and you can make them whatever size you wish we're going to add it right here
onto our lined cookie sheet you want to work fast because this will start setting up on you i love
using a silicone spatula because it's not going to stick and it'll make this process
much much easier if your caramel starts setting up on you when you're dropping your candy here
on your cookie sheet you can put it back over low heat and stir it until it gets pliable again
so these are off to the refrigerator for 10 minutes meanwhile i'm adding my chocolate chips
and my coconut oil to a large bowl and we're gonna microwave this for one minute after one minute
in the microwave i'm going to give it a little stirring and you can see that coconut oil how it's
melted there it'll melt very quickly faster than your chocolate chips and we're going to give these
a lovely little tossing and now these are back to the microwave 15 seconds at a time or until your
chocolate chips are almost melted just 30 seconds more i get this lovely creamy chocolate and this
is about 70 degrees fahrenheit let's check on our caramels they're easy to handle they come
right off the parchment paper and we're going to stick them right here in our chocolate
give it a lovely little drizzle and see i love using a fork because when you pick it up
tap off the excess chocolate add it over here on that chilled cookie tray so it'll set up faster
wow these are going to be scrumptious they're all coated with chocolate now these are off to
the refrigerator for an additional 10 minutes or so until the chocolate has completely firmed i
placed my chocolate billionaire candies in these little paper baking caps i've added
them into a heart-shaped box and i'm ready to give it as a gift i want to show you
what these candies look like on the inside look at that caramel and those pecans i gotta give
it a try and tell you what it's like look at that caramel and the pecans that rice cereal
oh my gosh this is so delicious it tastes like those chocolate caramels but it tastes much
lighter they're fantastic who wouldn't love these chocolate billionaire candies all wrapped up in a
box for valentine's day or for any day of the year i'm Deronda with foods 101 give me thumbs up leave
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million for watching happy valentine's day stay safe and i'll catch you lovely people later
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