Inspired by my friend Carissa at
Carissa's Creativity Spot, the girls and I decided to make some quick Christmas gifts for the mailman and the new neighbors across the street (and of course there were all of those not-quite-perfect little rods that we felt compelled to eat ourselves :-)
1. First we crushed candy canes in a ziploc bag with a heavy rolling pin. (The girls enjoyed doing this part, but needed quite a bit of help to get the pieces small enough.
2. Then we melted some white chocolate chips in a makeshift double boiler on the stove. (Large saucepan filled with hot water with a smaller saucepan nested inside filled with the chips) I think doing it this way worked better than the microwave because it kept the chocolate smooth and melted for long enough for us to dip a lot of pretzels
3. Next we dipped small pretzel rods into the white chocolate and sprinkled them with the candy cane pieces. (This part was very fun for the girls too, but they needed some help making sure they let the excess chocolate drip off before they rolled them.
4. Set to dry on a piece of wax paper. (Only takes about 10 minutes)
(Yes, M has a tin bucket on her head. Not sure why :-)
For our packaging, we tried a cute idea I saw on Pinterest a while back. We just used small ziploc bags and stapled some holiday scrapbook paper on the top. They turned out cute and tasty- the girls were proud to stick them in the mailbox.
(We wanted to give some to the garbage man too as a Christmas thank-you, but couldn't figure out how to do that without getting up at 6:30am when he usually comes- any suggestions?)
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