
About a week ago, I saw a post on HowDoesShe? where they made White Chocolate Candy Canes and I fell in love with the idea. I knew this was what Paige would be giving to her class as a Christmas gift, the last day of school. How could I go wrong? Candy canes, chocolate and sprinkles are a sure win with kindergarteners, right?
I bought all the supplies,got everything set up and d’oh! some of the candy canes were broken. I only bought what I needed and didn’t even consider the potential for breakage. Silly me! Too bad I found out late at night when the store was closed. So this morning after dropping Paige off at school I headed back to the store for more.
I will say that it took longer than I thought but I still can’t figure out why. It just did. Unwrapping them, breaking off the hooks, dripping in the chocolate and tapping off the excess, adding sprinkles (considerably more than what is shown in the picture above), waiting for them to harden, packaging them up, cutting out the cute labels I had printed (we picked out the third one and customized it), and getting them bagged and ready to take to school on Friday. I spent 3 hours on it when I thought it would only take an hour. I really underestimated it. LOL.
I didn’t take pictures of the finished project but they look almost identical to the photo above. Our store didn’t have red/green/white sprinkles so I had to use a multi-coloured one. I also added a lot more sprinkles than the photo shows because kids totally love sprinkles. Otherwise, they look the same. I even coated some of the top hooks that I had cut off to use at our Christmas Eve party with the family that we are hosting at our house. Since I don’t like waste, I also kept the other tops that I didn’t coat and put them in a cute jar for people to eat, most of which I’m sure will end up in my daughter who is nutso for candy canes.

For Paige’s teacher, she will get a bag of candy but I also printed the subway art above from Sweet Coconut Lime and framed it. I bought a frame that can either be mounted on a wall or placed on a desk so that she has some options. I know it is nothing fancy but we wanted to give her a little something as a thank you. Paige loves her teacher and she is learning so much.






































