Monday, February 8, 2010

Peppermint Hearts

I saw these peppermint hearts last February and thought they were very cute. I made sure to grab a box of candy canes during the Christmas clearance sale at Target so that we could do them this year!
The boys each made one for their primary teacher at church. We filled each heart with white almond bark and red sugar. I saw the idea for the filling HERE. I think we may have left ours in the oven too long. They are a lot wider than the ones I saw before, but that's ok! For baking instructions check THIS out. We followed her directions, but didn't use lollipop sticks since we were using regular sized candy canes and I only had small lollipop sticks.
The hardest part was unwrapping the candy canes. We got a box full of broken ones, I swear! 24 candy canes and we salvaged 10. The others went into a ziploc bag in the freezer to crush up for desserts.

Yum!

We also saved a couple for decorations at our house. I think next year I'll buy mini candy canes and make lollipops for the kid's friends.

Inspiration for this project was found at http://www.theidearoom.blogspot.com/

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8 comments:

  2. Hi Brandy, This is a very "sweet and clever idea. I just love that you let your children help. Good mom! I don't have any left over candy canes- so I'll file this until next year. Wouldn't this look so pretty on a table set for valentine's day.
    Yvonne

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  3. Hi Brandy, This is a very "sweet and clever idea. I just love that you let your children help. Good mom! I don't have any left over candy canes- so I'll file this until next year. Wouldn't this look so pretty on a table set for valentine's day.
    Yvonne

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  4. Thanks for the link! I never thought to do them with the larger candy canes for decorating with. What a great idea. I will have to remember that for next year! Yours turned out great!

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  5. I've never seen these before! I love them - we always seem to have candy canes leftover.

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  6. This look delicious! Oo La La Love this idea!! Thanx!!!

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  7. These are a great idea. I have all the ingredients and needed some idea of what to make for Natalie to bring for her teacher tomorrow. :) Thanks!

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  8. Cute!! Thank you for sharing your awesome project at Thursday’s Treasures last week! Come share your crafty projects in this week’s Thursday’s Treasures too!
    http://treasuresfortots.blogspot.com/2010/02/thursdays-treasures-week-10.html

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