Candy making

Truffles

2 tsp. melted chocolate
1 oz cream cheese
¾ c powder sugar
6 mini chocolate holders

Mix the first three ingredients together. Divide into the six cups. Sprinkle with cocoa, cinnamon or coconut. Set aside to cool.

Almond Clusters

¼ c shocolate, melted
¼ c powder sugar
½ c of whole almonds

Combine all the ingredients and drop onto wax paper in tablespoon size clusters.

Almond Turtles

16 whole almonds
2 caramels, cut in half through the narrow side
¼ c of chocolate, melted

Group the almonds in four clusters of four. Place on piece of caramel on each set of almonds. Divide the chocolate, pouring it over the four clusters.

Christmas Hay stacks

¼ c white chocolate
¼ c of almonds
6 red cherries
2 tablespoons of coconut

Chop up the cherries. In a bowl, combine cherries chocolate and almonds. Make six haystacks on wax paper. Sprinkle with coconut.

Chocolate Dipping Station

Melted chocolate
Pretzels: dip one end of the pretzel in the shocolate and let it cool.
Marshmallows, jimmies and straws
Insert straw into the Marshmallow. Dip half of the Marshmallow into the chocolate. While still hot, dip the chocolate end of the marshmallow into the jimmies. Let cool.
Potato Chips: dip one end of the chip in the chocolate and let cool.

Coconut clusters

¼ cup of coconut
¼ cup of chocolate, melted

Combine both ingredients. Divide into 4- 6 clusters on wax paper.

Marshmallow Cherry clusters

1/3 c mini marshmallows
4 cherries, chopped.
¼ cup chocolate melted

Chop cherries. Combine with marshmallows and chocolate. Make four clusters

Peppermint chocolates

1 sm candy cane, crushed.
1/3 c. white/peppermint chips, melted
6 sm. Paper cups

Crush the candy cane. Divide the dandy cane crumbs between six cups. Pour melted chocolate over until covered. Let cool.

Chocolate covered marshmallows


6 lg marshmallows
¼ c melted chocolate
6 cups

Fill the bottom of cups with chocolate. Place 1 Marshmallow in the center of each cup. Pour chocolate over the Marshmallow to cover.


Chocolate covered cherries

6 cherries
¼ c. powdered sugar
1/3 c melted chocolate
6 cups

Take a small amount of chocolate and place in the bottom of each cup. Take cherries and roll in the powdered sugar. Place one cherry on top of the chocolate in each cup. Cover with the rest of the chocolate. Set aside to cool.