Sweet making

Many of us may have made peppermint creams at school by just rolling out little rounds of icing sugar and peppermin essence.

But the art of sweet and chocolate mking becomes more sophisticated with the use of moulds. Imagine the wonderful personalised gifts you could make for family and friends.

The age-old craft has seen a revival and we have a variety of tin, brass, copper, aluminium - and even plastic - vintage moulds.

But we can still opt for the simple things in life like toffee or coconut ice and make them in our toffee tins & break them up with a hammer !

Getting the temperature right is so important for the set, so thermometers for sweet making can be found here.