The Good, The Bad and the Ugly!!

The Good!!
my first intent was to make  this for the Historical Food Forte-nightly challenge.

Challenge #12: If They Had It… 

"Have you ever looked through a cookbook from another era and been surprised at the modern dishes you find? Have you ever been surprised at just how much they differ from their modern counterparts? Recreate a dish which is still around today, even if it may look a little - or a lot - different!" 

KNOWING full well i had a bookcase full of vintage cookbooks & firmly believing i had come across this candy in at least one of them.. i went ahead and MADE it.. - it came out very nicely.

Here you see the basic beginnings.. a dead simple recipe 

very hard to go wrong with good ingredients

 

here is the first layer of white chocolate after its been melted - spread on the parchment paper and crushed peppermints spread over the top. it was then refrigerated to start 'setting up'

semi sweet chocolate chunks with cream and peppermint extract before melting them

then after melting and spreading over white chocolate covered in more crushed peppermint pieces & returned to refrigerator to set up. quite tasty!!!

The BAD!! - did i mention i did NOT check my resources first?? i went by memory??

yea, about that.. much to my dismay.. 

while i found DOZENS of versions of this Bark recipe and pretty much ALL of them say that this is the "CLASSIC" Christmas candy, NOT A SINGLE one of them mention ANY form of history on this tasty confection.

and while with the help of friends, we found mention of candy canes and peppermint candies - not even a whisper on this particular candy.. 

So i dont feel i CAN enter this particular item in the challenge because there is NO  documentation that i can find for the recipe's actual age...  

definately a bummer, but a nice treat for the crew at 'game night'  so all is Not lost.......

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The UGLY..

the version of the recipe on the candy bag had one make a 3rd layer (another of white chocolate) 
for what ever reason, am not even certain why.. i decided to add cream to the top layer as well 
unfortunately, THIS is the result.. not sure what happened AT ALL!! 

but something certainly went Awry?!!!!!!

am Seriously considering naming it the "blob" 

ah well... so much for That bright idea......

In conclusion -  it all (mostly) turned out all right. but it wasnt what i set out to do.. it didnt meet the goal i was aiming for and its only because i was being a tad lazy, the old cart before the horse thing..

am trying something a bit different tomorrow :)