Epic Fail at Making Christmas Mints & Talking to Granny on the Phone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ธ.ค. 2023
- I woke up the other morning with Granny's Christmas Mints on my mind. I tried to make them even though I didn't have the right ingredients 😀
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My best friend owns a chocolate shop and I just called her.She said your clear molds are for chocolate,and the white molds are for candy.They are made with diff plastic ingredients as one requires more slip than the other . But not a fail! If they are edible it’s good. You’ve inspired me though to make these as they remind me almost of a chewy mint taffy ❤❤
Thank you!!
Good to know
Thank You 🙏 Tipper
I could of told you that, you can buy candy molds anywhere! And, that’s how, I started making candy as a kid, course with my mom’s help then!
Thank you! 😊
It was so good to hear Granny's sweet voice. Praying for Granny!!
Hearing Granny's voice on the phone made me miss my mom. She passed in 2018, age 93. I know I'll see her in heaven for all eternity, but I still miss her now. Thank you for all that you do for all of us.
I miss mine too, especially at Christmas
I know how you feel our momma's are so loved and missed but we will see them again your right about that. My momma passed in 98 and I still want to run to her when I'm sick or something good happens and I'm 59yrs old . Memories are sweet and sad at the same time.
Sending you 🕊️Blessings and Peace 🕊️
🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄
Such a fun video and so good to hear Granny's voice!!!
Oh, Tipper, I'm so glad you did this video. So many youtubers wouldn't show something they thought failed, but you are so real and true to who you are. I don't think it was a fail as long as you can still eat them. I was hoping to see Matt try one. You can always tell what a person thinks when they bite into something new. It was so good to hear Granny's voice. I woke up praying for many people and she was at the top of the list. God bless!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, good to see you again 🎄
The recipe my Mama used was called “Butter mints.”
You don’t melt the butter. It needs to be softened at room temp. Then the dough forms nicely. Did not use molds. You take a little bit of dough and roll it out into a snake like line and cut them into individual mints. 😊
I love this old recipe too. We had these at my wedding 50 years ago. I’m thinking we got the recipe from my home economics class (back when we actually cooked in class❤️)
It was really nice hearing Granny on the phone. She has a great memory. Praying for her, and that her energy picks up, but she's been through a lot and it will probably take a bit of time. Understandably so. I love y'all. 🙏
I loved the honesty of your mint making. Brought a wonderful memory of me and my sisters recalling our childhood and now in our seventies trying to make Mama’s popcorn balls. We had loads of laughs trying to decide how she did it and whether they tasted like we remembered. You didn’t fail. You relived wonderful memories with your Mom!💖
Don't be so hard on yourself. You didn't give up. That's a win! Wish you'd make the hard rock candy!
Tipper i enjoyed this so much i love how you experimented on a.memory with us.ita edible and its peppermint candy🙂 thanks again for sharing this memory and this moment
I think it’s awesome that you shared this with us, that things don’t always turn out like we want, but glad the candy still tasted good..I love hearing your memories of Granny making them & letting you help..was good to hear Granny’s voice & my prayers for her are ongoing and I’m praying for the girls & your whole family ❤❤
We enjoyed your daring Tipper 👏👏👏👏
How about a renaming? Easy buttermint twist taffy !
Tipper, it wasn't an epic fail. We learn from our mistakes. God bless you and yours. 🙏❤🙏❤🎅🤶🧑🎄🌲
So true! Thank you 😀
Tipper, one time when I came home after being gone for a few years my mom asked what would I like to have. I answered hot oatmeal. This is Quaker Oats out of the box mind you and I made it for myself plenty of times but it never tasted like my moms’ and sure enough when I took the first spoonful it tasted exactly like I remembered. ❤️
Love that 😀
That is such a sweet story. I remember my son saying he liked grandma’s Mac and cheese better than mine. He wasn’t comparing my homemade Mac and cheese, but the boxed Kraft one. Ha.
Loved you trying. Engineers where I worked years ago had a saying, " Engineers don't make mistakes, they make revisions ". The saying could be modified to say, " Good cooks don't make mistakes, they make changes until it is right ".
You might be older but your excitement is like a child enjoying yourself as you try to replacate Granny's recipe from your childhood days.I couldn't help but smile as you went back and forth questioning yourself about what might be the problem. Granny's just a phone call away 🤗 I still have a landline and a cell phone. I'm old school in more ways than one. I had the same problem years ago like Granny has when it rained. I was so thankful the technician was able to fix it. He said it was a break in the line and water was getting into it. Praying Granny has remarkable results from her treatments and gets her strength back soon. Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
I love hearing you speak your thoughts out loud while you're figuring or deciding. My mom made those when I was growing up too, but she passed 20 years ago. It was fun sitting with you making them. 😊 AND hearing Granny.
I used to work with an older lady who had never married and still lived in her childhood home, to hear her tell it she had not had a decent bite to eat since her mother passed, which was 25 or 30 years prior, nothing was ever as good as what her momma had made, as a momma myself I know what high praise that is and how much joy that comes from feeding my family, I don’t know if she ever told her momma when she was living how good she thought her cooking was, but she sure missed it when she was gone.
It's the LOVE that ANY cook adds to their dish!! That's the "special ingredient"!😊
You could take granny’s molds that are cut out and make all her grandkids a Christmas ornament from them, we are sentimental about all those things here to! 🥰
Tipper, my good friend once told me that it's useless to just keep something and never use it. I remembered that and now I use all the "precious" dishes, glasses, ornaments, etc. and it makes the occasion for their use even more special. If they break, oh well...
That is so true 😀
I've been cooking since I was a child. I'm a pretty good home cook. But there are a few things I've always struggled with. Fried chicken, I'm ashamed to say. My mom and her mom made great fried chicken but it intimidates me. And my mom's dressing at Thanksgiving was so good. My sister can make it but mine never turns out as good. But I make great pies, I make good gravy and I know people who struggle with that, and my spaghetti and meatballs is well known amongst my friends and family. Thank you for sharing your peppermint journey! ❤
This is me in the kitchen with any new recipe 😂 I think I can do it then it all goes up in flames. But I persist and eventually get a better recipe than the one I was trying to duplicate. I'd love to see attempt #2 with the correct molds. Remember, chocolate molds are typically see through and candy molds are typically opaque to solid color.
I think it's wonderful and makes me feel better that you shared this even though you weren't happy at the outcome. I can certainly empathize. ❤ It's not a fail if you learned something, that's what I try to tell myself.
I remember Mom making divinity candy. If it was humid they didn't turn out and she would call it Sea Foam Candy. she never gave up though and finally stumbled on a fail proof recipe and after all those years of trying she made the best divinity I ever ate. From then on she was the go to if anyone was going to make divinity and needed help. Well I wouldn't say it was an epic fail. I bet they taste great! Peppermint is good for stomach and indigestion upsets. Well the cool part is the molds held up and I believe you made Sea foam Candy!! hahaha Praying for Granny always!!
I had the same thought about divinity & the weather!! Since you mentioned it, I don’t have too ❤ but I am inspired to make some divinity now. 😂
hahaha go for it!!@@mariontheantiquarian7849
I make cream cheese mints. Everyone loves them. Give them a try. Love your channel.
It looks more like taffy than mints but I bet it tastes good! Thanks for sharing your “failure” with us. Makes the rest of us feel good! Enjoy!
It's going be okay yes we learned though your mistakes am sure your recipe going be very good and granny sound good God bless you and your lovely family ❤
Oh my goodness. I remember these. It was so good to hear granny on the phone! My grandma died this spring and it reminded me of talking to her about cooking old family recipes. The mint molds we had were made of a soft gray rubber and you could pop them out. For some reason, I think of them as a spring-time treat. We made a few kinds for family weddings.
The taste is most important. God Bless. ❤&🙏🙏'ers for Granny. Jean
Never heard of this type of candy. Thanks it was good to hear granny's voice.
So true. I remember my Great Grandmother made the best popcorn balls on Halloween.
Even if the taste was the same, it just wouldn’t be as good - it’s the love and nostalgia you felt at the time. At least, that’s my experience. Very proud your mother is doing better.
You’ve got to have dry weather to make old fashioned pulled mints, and marble slab to rest on. This is a different recipe. We were over the moon when Mom made these. Blessings.
My mom used to make those all of the time for weddings and showers. She would have me display them on a platter.
Same issues with my land line! Lol! One of the joys of living in an old neighborhood.
I love anything mint flavor 😋
Hey Tipper, we just made made Christmas cookies with peppermint Frost. My daughter used peppermint oil instead of extract. She used a tooth pick and got a tiny drop otherwise they were super strong and the frosting never set on the cookies!!! You were on the right track to problem solve. 😂❤
Thank you Brenda 😀
Tipper, A grand effort for Katie and good memories. 🥰
My mom made hundreds of mints for mine and my sister's weddings. She had one rubber mold which is a flexible mold and easy to pop them out. She worked so hard but they were so good❤ and so appreciated. My moms recipe was powdered sugar cream cheese and flavoring there was no cooking.
Tipper no one cooks as good as a childhood memory.
That was so much fun watching you trying to make mints! Not everything we make turns out. I’m sure you’ll figure it out with Granny! 😊❤️🇨🇦🙏🎄
What wonderful memories! We made mints that sound like what you remember for our wedding in the 80's. They were with powdered sugar, but I don't think we cooked them. They were creamy smooth and melted in your mouth. We had to chill them in the fridge to get them to set up right and hold the form of the molds. Hope you can find a way to recreate the ones you loved as a child!!
Those sound great 😀
It was nice seeing this kind of science project taking place. And reminds us that sometimes we experiment and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. It was a great learning experience.
But not a total fail... I learned something too. Thanks Tipper 👍🎄❤️
Looks like it came out good for a first try that you haven’t done in a long time I’m sure they were delicious it was great to hear from Granny to❤️ we all continue to pray for her
God bless Granny. She is such a beautiful person, so sweet! God bless you all!
Tipper, I just made a recipe similar to yours. I think where you went wrong, was, to add your butter, syrup, and half your powdered sugar, and bring that to a rolling boil. Boil for about 5 minutes, then remove from the heat and add the other half of your sugar, vanilla and peppermint flavoring. Then wait until you can knead it, separate your dough and add whatever color you’re using. Don’t give up, you’ll get it! ❤
Thanks for the tip 😀
I wonder if it cooked to long to a soft ball stage. ?
How I wish I had someone as nice and sweet to give me suggestions when I tried to make candy . I had a horrible time with it have never tried anything like that again. 💕
My mom had little flexible rubber molds she used to make her mints- so good!
Tipper you deserve a lot of credit for giving it a try, and they looked good on the plate. The video was a lot of fun to watch, and we all got to hear from Granny.
i said to myself, “i wonder if they have frontier” !!! hahahaha i have my land line up here in wv and it sounds exactly the same.
those little candies are really cute btw
thanks for sharing with us miss tipper 😊
😀 Thank you
They were a really pretty red and at least you tried 😊
Give Granny a hug for me and I will be praying that she has good results from her scan. When my Mom was sick I always felt like I was hurry up and waiting for results. I pray 🙏🏼 she gets stronger too. She sounded good on the phone. I know you wish she was there with you so you could enjoy doing that together. Luv Ya Tipper 🫶🏻🙏🏼
This reminds me of when my mother and and whole bunch of friends made hard candy. I don't remember who was there. I just remember that it was fun and my mother warned us away from the hot candy. They were so pretty and yummy.
I love your cooking videos especially watching you make old family recipes. Even if they don't turn out the way you were expecting! 😅
You were willing to try. That's the most important thing. You're a good enough cook so, you'll perfect your technique. And you didn't make any weird faces and pretend it was good. - so a work in progress. Thanks for sharing 🤗
They look a pretty red! 🍬 Like those chewy Brachs tree mints, those are my fave! Buy them every November.😊 Lol, my parents are in the country Appalachians in PA and their phone gets all fuzzy, too. My mom always says, you're phone is making noise and I cant hear, lol, when it's theirs.😂 God bless y'all, and season's greetings!🍬🎄💖🎁 I pray Granny regains her pep. Was lovely to hear her voice.❤
Oh my, you look like me when I try something new in the kitchen. Hope u don’t mind me chuckling while I watched. Ha.
It’s gon be someone who needs some peppermint… I laughed out loud! Thanks Tipper
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Continued prayers for grannies, Katie. And Cori. Tipper they look yummy. Love learning from you. Thank you.
Thanks so much 😀
Love the Reverware pans. I have a couple that I inherited from my Mama. 1960s, it was the best in its day.
I really like them too 😀 They were Matt's grandmother's 😀
Loved hearing Granny. ❤ Bless her sweet heart.
Wouldn't call this an epic fail, they just didn't turn out with same texture as you're used to. As long as you can still eat them, then that's a success.😊 I can make something exactly like mom's, measure for measure, stir for stir, exactly, but it's not as good because it tasted better when she made it.😀 Good to hear Granny on the phone. Continued prayers for her 🙏🏻
😀 Thank you!!
Great video to show things happen and there are fails. Glad you called Granny. I hope it all works out for her.
Thanks for sharing!
I’ll bet those are good. And, so pretty! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Yum yum, save me some Tipper, God bless Granny, Merry Christmas
Ok Tipper, I give you a ten for trying and not giving up on the candy. Looked good and I loved the color. If you can enjoy it with your family it's a win. I loved listening to your mother talking, all the money in the world can't take that away from memories. God blessings.
I would like to watch you make them again with the right ingredients and the right molds.😊
Very fun video! I woke up thinking about going Christmas caroling and how that is a loss festive fun childhood memory.
What a sweet treasure you have. Love your show!
There’s nothing like the nostalgia of childhood favorite foods and things! It was a great attempt at recreating the recipe! Even though it didn’t work out exactly as expected, we all had fun watching and listening to your reminiscing of Granny’s recipe! And we all got to hear that wonderful Granny on the phone! Many prayers for her scans and that everything looks perfect! Does she have plenty of yarn to keep her busy? 🧶 I saw her beautiful crocheted ornaments for her tree! So cute! ❤
Thank you! LOL Granny has a storehouse of yarn 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia That’s great news! 😆 Tell her she is missed! I can’t wait to see what she is crocheting next! Especially with the new grand babies coming! Hugs 🤗 for her! ❤️
It is so true about how you can't recreate or duplicate the way our moms or grannies cooked! My mother made the best pound cakes and I have her recipes! She's even worked with me and shown me how she does it! But mine are never as good as hers! She's got that touch and patience! And she knows when the recipe "looks right!" Y'all know if you've been taught by your Mama be or your Granny to cook, they didn't always use a recipe! Just stir in whatever ingredients and stir until it looks right!
I use to make peppermint candy that I put in leaf or rosette molds. My mom, sisters and I hand made 10 dozen of them for my wedding reception. Mom had put out a tray of the mints on the table, but with all the reception excitement no body refilled the tray with mints. We had 8 dozen mints left in mom’s freezer. We divided them up and I don’t think I’ve made them since then. I have the recipe somewhere in my recipe files, but I think it was a lot like yours. If I find it, I’ll email it to you. It was good hearing Granny in good spirits. Prayers continue for her.
What a great memory. 😊Regina
My Aunt made wonderful mints! She still does from time to time ! Butter mints was ones she made for a long time, then one that used cream cheese they were good too! But the butter mints were more like soft peppermint candy! You made taffy it looked like! Still good ,I am sure
Watching these always brings fond memories back for me😊❤
I've tried to recreate some of my parents' and grandparents' meals and experience an epic fail each time. My family will swear it's really good, or, at times, that it is delicious, but not to me. I've come to believe that the wonderful, savory tastes of those recipes are enriched by the memories of the times we shared them. Memories are the special ingredient, which we can never quite replicate.
My daughter says the same thing about homemade dishes she makes that they don't taste the same as mine. I enjoyed your video and your stories about your mother, our mothers are close in age my mother was born in 1942, she passed in 2015.
The consistency, as you were working with it, reminds me of salt water taffy.
Im sure it was delicious! And all enjoyed the candy. Thank you for taking us along! I love how you keep it real Tipper!
I was laughing whn you “phoned a friend” and called granny!😂🥰I realy loved hearing her! What a blessing! Forgot to add that.
😀 thank you it was like taffy
Thank you for sharing your epic fail with us! I've certainly had my share of flops in the kitchen too. 😊 My grandmom always made cream cheese mints using the molds Granny gave you. They are a flexible rubber mold. I recently found some at a thrift store! The recipe uses peppermint flavoring and gel food coloring.
Thank you Tipper love seeing all u share
Tipper next time you make these monts put a little dusting of cornstarch in your molds - the candies should pop out & you can brush any cornstarch on the candies off with a tea towel or little art brush. Hopefully this will help with the mints - Merry Christmas to you, Matt, the girls, Austin, Olive & last but most of all, Granny!!
One of my favorite episodes! I chuckled with you at the fail. Lol! Sometimes things just don't work.
Very enjoyable! ❤
"Epic Fail" lol LOVE IT! lol :-)
This was pleasant to watch 🎄❤️
Loved this experience. No failure here. God bless.
Well they were cute "Tom Turkey's" Tipper! I'm taking a course in creative leadership right now, and what you just did by sharing this video is acknowledging, and learning from your failure. When this happens, we are to celebrate the lessons learned, and say, "Happy Fail-a-bration!"
Tipper it's your molds. I managed a Cake and Candy store for 15 years. Clear molds are chocolate and ice molds. White molds are for hard candy or any candy that has to cook and gets really hot. Pinch off a piece of candy. Roll in in powdered sugar then press it into the white molds. The will be very sharp and detailed. The peppermint oil is not the problem. Oil is actually better for candies than extracts. To find alot of mold choices look up Country Kitchen, Ft Wayne Indiana. They carry over 1000 molds easily. Enjoy
The problem of it thinking out is caused by the powdered sugar. Recipe is suppose to be granulated sugar. Then just roll ball in ps and push into the mold
Thank you Tipper for trying look good anyway. Stay safe
There has never been a cook who hasn't messed up a recipe from time to time. I have never been much of a fan of peppermint, though I do like spearmint and wintergreen treats. I have made old-fahioned peanut brittle from my bosses' wife's recipe for at least twenty years to give as Christmaas gifts to family and friends. It's the kind where you boil sugar and corn syrup to a temperature, add the peanuts, boil to a higher temperature before adding butter, vanilla extracet and baking soda. The soda causes the candy to foam, like honeycomb candy, so it's easier to chew and doesn't stick to one's teeth. Every year several people ask, as the holidays draw nearer, if I plan to make my brittle again. My answer is "As long as I can stand on my feet, there will be peanut brittle for Christmas.
Lovely to see and I was right there with you in my own failures. And it’s the love that makes the taste so good. Xxx
This was so fun. Thanks for inviting us into your kitchen.
Love the greenery of Christmas vlog. ❤️
I enjoyed this video so much! So good to hear Granny’s voice. 😍 I’m sure your next batch of candy will be just right. Childhood memories are so wonderful however, I think our taste buds change as we age so things don’t ever seem quite the same. Thank you for allowing us into you home for so many wonderful visits. 😍
Oh please make them again with the new molds!! Enjoyed this video!
I think any day you get extra time to play in the kitchen is successful! Regardless if what you make is perfect or you learn how not to make it. Sounds like a beautiful memory, maybe you'll be able to make new memories with the boys. What a blessing!
I really enjoyed watching you make the mints..You'll have to take us along on your next try👍🥰💞
I enjoyed the video. You have me trying to think of something my Mama made at Christmas that I would like to make that we enjoyed when I was a kid. She made good divinity but I hate making it. It was good hearing Granny. I loved that you had her molds and could still use them for a while. Prayers for Granny. Wishing you and your family the joy of the Christmas season.
Tipper some of my candy fails have been what people loved! Thank you for sharing ❤️
Thank you Robin 😀