Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

REALLY Easy Christmas Cooking

Everyone likes chocolate covered pretzels, right? Well this super easy "recipe" is a fun Christmas-style twist on that idea. We received a jar of these from my brother's girlfriend a few years ago as a Christmas gift, and this year I remembered to make them. It's a really easy, fast project, and kids love to participate because it involves opening candy!

1.) Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
2.) Place a bunch of mini pretzels on a baking sheet. Unwrap Hershey's Kisses and place one in the middle of each pretzel. Place baking sheet in oven for about 4 minutes - you want the chocolate to be squishy but not melted.
3.) Remove baking sheet from oven and squish one M&M onto each Kiss, squishing the chocolate down. I used the red and green M&M's - you could use any color you like, customizing the candy to the time of year/holiday.
4.) Let the pretzels sit at room temp (or speed up the process in the fridge) until the chocolate hardens up again.
We're giving big jars of these as Christmas gifts this year. Just fill a large Mason jar and tie on a cute Christmas-colored ribbon, and you have a great hostess or teacher's gift. Have fun!

Monday, June 2, 2008

A Fantastic Combination

Cybil over at Doodlebug Finery has set up the most wonderful fabric and chocolate swap through Flickr, and I managed to sign up just in time! You get matched with a partner, and send each other (duh) fabric and chocolate, as well as a few other goodies and a hand-written note. People from all over the world are signed up, so it's a great way to meet fellow fabric addicts and spread some of your own fabric love. I'm super excited about this! I just got my partner's list of likes and dislikes, and I'm already dreaming up what to put in her special goody box. FUN!!!