Tag: candycanes

Warm Up With a Hot Cocoa Bar

It’s a snowy and cold day today where we live. Brrr! It makes me long for a hot drink and a soft blanket! (Step aside, iced coffee!) This Christmas in a white elephant exchange, I received this cute set for making hot cocoa.

It got me to thinking about how nice it would be to have a hot cocoa bar with all our favorite ingredients. And this cold snowy day is the perfect day for one! 🙂 Here’s what we had for our hot cocoa bar:

Hot cocoa mix – this brand is my favorite!

Some candy canes for stirring

Sprinkles for on top

Miniature marshmallows

Chocolate chips

Cinnamon, if you like a touch of spice

And, of course, whipped cream!

Set everything together in a nice arrangement.

Grab your favorite mugs, some spoons and heat up some water. Mix your hot cocoa mix with the hot water in your mug…

And then add your favorite additional ingredients! Mmmm, so warm and yummy!

Sip your delicious hot cocoa till your heart is content and your belly is nice and warm! 🙂

Super Quick and Easy Candy Canes

Candy canes are one of people’s most favorite things to decorate with for Christmas. So here is the quickest and easiest candy canes you’ve ever made! All you need is some red and white pipe cleaners (or chenille stems as some people call them). It’s also fun to mix in some green ones and even to use the sparkly red, silver and green kind. We’ll start off with one each of the fuzzy red and white pipe cleaners.

Twist the two pipe cleaners together so they look like the stripes on candy canes. I also like to twist the ends together a little tighter and bend the end over so folks don’t get poked by the sharp ends.

Bend the twisted pipe cleaners into the shape of a candy cane. That’s all there is to it! 🙂

Here are a few variations you can make…fuzzy red, white and green…

Or try the sparkly pipe cleaners…

Or make a tri-color sparkly one.

Whatever kind of pipe cleaners you go with, you’re sure to have fun making these simple candy canes!

You can hang them up just by hooking them over something or add a bit of thread or string to hang them. These are so fun and simple to make that you’ll want to make a dozen! 😉