Post-Season Hockey Treats

Hockey players are creatures of habit. We put our gear on right to left, every single time. We wear lucky socks. We wrap our sticks in a way that appeases the hockey gods.

Ok, maybe we're not all that hardcore (yes, we are).

Every year between mid-April and mid-June, I make a special treat in honor of the NHL's post-season, typically referred to as the most wonderful time of the year.  From puck cakes to the Stanley Cupcake, the treats symbolize some of my favorite things: hockey, sugar, hockey and chocolate.

This year, instead of baking a treat, I went the candy route, dipping chocolate hazelnut sandwich cookies into creamy chocolate to make pucks...Los Angeles Kings pucks, my favorite kind!

So delicious and so easy to make!  Using an Oreo cookie candy mold, I filled it 1/3 up with melted chocolate, stuffed a cookie into the mold and filled the rest with chocolate.  Once it cooled down, I popped those babies out of the mold and topped it with an edible Kings logo.  Easy peasy!!

The Kings face the Chicago Blackhawks this week in the Western Conference Finals.  Let's go Kings!