Hot Chocolate on a Stick

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White Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles

These pretty white chocolate

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Peppermint Sugar Scrub

My daughter and I

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S'mores Truffles

As Christmas gifts

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Rocky Road Candy

This very popular

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Pink Peppermint Fudge!

I found this recipe

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Cross Stitch Gift Tag and Christmas Ornament

The other day, my granddaughters

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Homemade Caramels

Yummy, homemade caramels!  Who can turn those down?  And this recipe is great to use for the candy box caramels.  Fun and festive for this time of year.

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Cookie Gift Containers With Chalkboard Printable Label

I found this cute project on Pinterest and instantly fell in love with the idea.  These chalkboard printable labels made these containers.  She had applied them to her containers with paper tape, so I hopped on-line and found some festive tape that I thought would work.  Then I went looking for the containers.

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First Year Teacher Gifts

This is a cute little gift my daughter-in-law made for my granddaughter's teachers this year.  They were so cute.  Sorry I didn't get this posted a little sooner. 

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12 Days of Christmas Cookies--Black and White Dipped Chocolate Chip Cookies

Day 11--Black and White Dipped Chocolate Chip cookies.  This extra little step makes your favortie chocolate chip cookie extra special.

Mix up your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, (I have included our favorite at the bottom of this post), and bake.

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12 Days of Christmas Cookies--Chocolate Pretzel Toffee Bark

DAY 7: Chocolate Pretzel Toffee Bark

Another very tasty bark.   These barks take little to no effort.  Just melt a little chocolate and crunch up a few ingredients throw it all together, and wait for it to set up.  A quick and easy gift.

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Candy Box Caramels

 
Here is another diversion from all the cookie baking.  Caramels!  These can be fairly easy if you use prepackaged caramels.  Just unwrap and decorate.  If you decide to make your own caramels (I've included a great recipe for those at the bottom) then it gets to be a little more time-consuming but makes them just that much more delicious and special. 

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12 Days of Christmas Cookies--Candy Cane Bark

Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies

Day 4: I'm not really sure if Bark is a "cookie" but it works great as a quick gift, so I thought I would share some of these recipes just the same.

If you love peppermint, you'll love this Candy Cane Bark.  It's such an easy recipe (you know I'm all about easy--especially at this time of year!) and makes a great festive addition to neighbor cookie plates. 

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12 Days of Christmas Cookies--Soft Almond Sugar Cookies

Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies

Day 3: Soft Almond Sugar Cookies.  These are so YUMMY.  However, this is another dough that needs to be chilled for at least 30 minutes prior to rolling and baking, so keep that in mind if you are baking more than one cookie recipe at a time.

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Triple Chocolate Mocha Truffles

We are going to take a side-step from the cookies for a minute and show you some heavenly truffles!  If you like mocha flavor and chocolate you have to try these lovelies!  They are delicious, fun to make and pretty.

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