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Fair Library patrons create sweet V-Day treats
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Janna Okolie added shimmery edible paint to her heart-shaped lollipop.
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Aspiring pastry chefs Clairevy Maingrette, 12, left, and Claire Arnoff, 11, practiced their chocolate-making skills at the Bellmore Memorial Library on Feb. 3. There they created heart-shaped lollipops to give to their family and friends for Valentine’s Day.
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The Bellmore Memorial Library invited patrons to create sweet treats for Valentine’s Day. Once her chocolate lollipops came out of the fridge, Stephanie Okolie, 12, center, painted the pops pink and purple.
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Aspiring pastry chef Claire Arnoff, 11, kept laser-focus as she painted a chocolate lollipop.
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Ruby Mattes, front, and Elle Soontarodom, both 14, dipped Oreos, pretzels and popcorn into melted chocolate during the class.
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Giovanni Scimeca, 12, made sure to fill the chocolate mold to maximum capacity.
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Ava Cederroth, 12, made sure the chocolate in her mold was evenly distributed.
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After dipping her Oreo in melted chocolate, Janna Okolie, 12, added Sweet Tarts to the top for decoration.
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Love was in the air at the Bellmore Memorial Library long before Valentine’s Day, as patrons gathered to attend a chocolate-making class on Feb. 3. There, instructor Susan Ackerman of Chocolicious showed guests how to temper chocolate and pour it into heart-shaped lollipop molds.
After the pops cooled in the fridge, the patrons put their pastry skills to the test and decorated the treats with edible paints and heart-shaped candies. They also dipped sweet and salty snacks into the melted chocolate to create chocolate-covered Oreos, pretzels, marshmallows, popcorn and graham crackers.
Guests left with a bag of treats to take home — that is if they didn’t eat them first!
— Compiled by Alyssa Seidman
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