rhubarb candy?

[noamnety]

I am not a chocolatier, but I just acquired a couple of chocolate molds. Anyone ever make chocolate covered jellied candies? I've got rhubarb in the garden, I was thinking a fruit jell with that and a chocolate coating might be tasty. Do you use pectin to set up the filling?

[hippywife]

1. I've never made candies

and I'm not sure if rhubarb has any pectin in it or not. :shrug:

I did find a couple of sites, tho:

http://www.ehow.com/how_3910_make-candied-fruit.html


http://www.candymaking.net/CandyCookBook/FruitCandy1.html

[noamnety]

3. thanks

I looked it up after this post - there's pretty much no pectin in rhubarb at all it turns out.

[Denninmi]

2. I've never made them, but I do like those.

I enjoy the raspberry jells covered with chocolate. Rhubarb would be great, IMO. I think you could use a combination of pectin and gelatin for best results.

[noamnety]

4. I am giving it a try right now

I put in just plain gelatin for this attempt since I had it on hand, but I think the combination might be more the way to go.

[noamnety]

5. My first attempt: