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Yep, I did. It doesn't take that much space if you're only doing a few things. One of the things I'm going to try this year is make the Ferrero Rocher candies. I bought some whole hazelnuts today, and I have some chopped toasted ones already. You can add heavy cream to the melted chocolate and when you chill it, it becomes soft and nougaty. I'll put a hazelnut in the middle of a little ball of nougat, dip that in chocolate, then sprinkle the still wet chocolate with the chopped hazelnuts. I hope it works!

There is another way to do a delicious candy that only requires a pan to melt the chocolate and a flat shallow cookie pan. You can make a 'bark', like an almond bark, or if you can find a store that sells candy fixings, they now sell a white peppermint flake that you can mix with the chocolate, so you have crunchy pieces inside the chocolate when you bite into it. Yum stuff. You just pour the melted chocolate, into which you've stirred a few drops of peppermint flavoring, sprinkle in whatever goodies you want, stir it in, then put the pan in the refrigerator for about 1/2 hour. When it's hard, you just break it into pieces and package it however you like! You don't need much space for that!