12 Days of Christmas Event: Day 2

On The 2nd Day of Christmas My Crafty Friends Gave to Me..............

A Creative Baking Idea and Some Packaging

Welcome to the 12 days of Christmas here at Ooh La La Vintage Treasures! This is the 2nd day of this awesome journey through 12 days of fun and exciting projects, decor ideas, baking and etc....

I thought I would show you a really quick and easy gift to share with your family and friends this holiday season.

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

1bg (12ozs) of candy coating chocolate

Pretzels

Candy Canes

Sugar Sprinkles

Double Boiler or Microwave Safe Bowl

Fork

Hammer or Kitchen Mallet

Wax Paper

A creative mind..lol

The first thing you will need to do is to place your chocolate in the double boiler or microwave safe bowl. If you are using a double boiler please set your stove top temp on medium low. Stirring the chocolate pieces constantly so the chocolate doesn't burn. If you use a microwave safe bowl, please only microwave at a minute. If you find that the chocolate doesn't melt while stirring it please place in the microwave for 30 more seconds. Try not to over cook the chocolate, you don't want to burn the chocolate.

While you are waiting for the chocolate to melt, place your candy canes (2 or 3) on wax paper and then place another sheet over top of them. Take your hammer or kitchen mallet and gently break the canes into small pieces.

After the chocolate is melted, dip your pretzels into the chocolate. I used large pretzel sticks in this project and how i got the chocolate to cover half way up the stick was by using a fork. I sat the stick down into the chocolate and used my fork to bring the chocolate up onto the sides of the stick. After you get all the chocolate onto the pretzels, it's time to decorate! Before I placed my sticks onto the wax paper to dry I dipped them into the broken candy canes and rolled it to coat all the sides. You can pinch some of the broken candy canes and sprinkle them over your small pretzels too ;)

I then took some green sugar sprinkles and lightly sprinkled over all the pretzels for a festive look!

After the pretzels were dry I bagged up my large pretzel sticks to show you an easy way to give them as a gift. The smaller pretzels were eaten by my son...lol..before I had a chance to take pictures.

Using very inexpensive items I took a simple candy bag and dressed it up for the holiday and now its ready to be given away! These would not only be great for family and friends but for teacher gifts as well.

I hope you and your family enjoy this holiday season and I hope you have a happy new year!

Warm Hugs,

Anna

 Crafty Ornaments Idea from Lowe's

Some of these ornament ideas are great to have kids create! Remember, your kids will get bored while on Christmas vacation so make sure you are prepared with lots of great crafty projects. All of these ornaments can be made for well under $10.00! Can you say cheap fun!!!!!



The giveaway winner for Day 1 of the 12 Days of Christmas is...........

bluucaca she said...

Great ideas. Love the cupcake xmas tree TFS

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