Chocolate Covered Maple Fondant Acorns

Ingredients

• 2 cups maple syrup
• 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
• ¾ cup cold water
• Confectioners' sugar (as needed)
• 2 or more squares Baker's Chocolate
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ¼ cup fine-chopped almonds, browned in the oven

Method

1. 1 Combine maple syrup, granulated sugar, and cold water in a saucepan.
2. 2 Cook the mixture to make fondant, following standard fondant directions without cream of tartar.
3. 3 Work some fondant with confectioners' sugar into cone shapes and let harden for an hour.
4. 4 Melt chocolate and vanilla over hot water, stirring until smooth.
5. 5 Dip the fondant cones in the chocolate mixture and place on waxed paper.
6. 6 Dip the base of each cone in chocolate again, then roll in browned almonds.