None of these ideas are my own so don’t be telling me how smart I am . . unless you just want to make me feel smart! 🙂
On the freeze drying Facebook group, someone posted the other day about making eggnog bites and chocolate milk bites. I was all over those ideas. The first thing I had to do was order candy molds. I ordered the hearts, stars and seashell molds and they arrived already (obviously!). I also ordered cute little animals and owls, pigs and fish. Those cute little molds can be used for so much – candy, ice cubes, all kinds of things in the freeze dryer, so I didn’t feel bad at al ordering them. But, I don’t usually feel too bad about the things I order. 🙂
Candy Molds
Because I was too cheap to buy chocolate milk, I just poured chocolate syrup into milk, then used a squeeze bottle to fill these little cavities.
Chocolate Milk in Candy Molds
There are my little pizza tables. I stick those in the corners so I can stack the trays. If you look at the top picture, you’ll see it’s stacked on top of the red/green molds.
These will go into the household freezer, then I’ll dump them into a zipper bag, keep them frozen until I get enough to fill the freeze dryer. I can’t wait to try these, as well as eggnog bites. I’ll also be able to use these for yogurt bites.
As always, there will be a followup post once this is all finished.
Nelle Coursey says
This sounds really good!!
dezertsuz says
Oh, now I’m envious! Those sound wonderful! Please, when you eat them, tell me they are awful. LOL
Rebecca in SoCal says
How cute! I picture freeze-drying as shrinking the food, but those little shapes will still come through.
Twyla says
Ya’ know the way I see it you do not make it a chore to produce these food products but fun. Oh the anticipation of how cute they will turn out!!
Cilla Tyler says
I am this close (index almost touching thumb) to purchasing a freeze dryer. Are you allowed to give out the FB group you like on freeze dryers? I’d like to follow it for awhile. Thank you.