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Amond Roca Party


It's Christmas Eve, what is your Christmas Eve tradition?  We are child-less this Christmas since Nick and Sachiyo are in Japan

and Lauren is in Seattle so we are just relaxing.  Our biggest tradition over the whole Christmas season is giving gifts of Bruce's homemade almond roca to all our friends and family. Many people comment how they want to learn to make it so this year we hosted an almond roca party where we showed people how to make it.  Each guest got a copy of the recipe with room to take notes.


Bruce made a half batch which takes half the time and is much easier to make than a full batch.

Bruce loved being the center of attention and he got lots of company as he patiently stirred the mixture to the hard crack stage.


Of course, I provided many yummy munchies for everyone

including the popular pomegranate mojitos.



As the almond roca got closer to 300 degrees 




everyone gathered around to watch Bruce pour out the candy for the final process.


 Chocolate on top and chopped almonds, ready to cool.


SInce the candy must cool overnight, we couldn't eat this batch.  We prepared an earlier batch to give everyone their own party bag of candy to take home.
And this is our Christmas tradition. 

Merry Christmas!





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