Christmas Candy

This year for our Christmas goodies I did the same peanut butter white chocolate fudge I did last year. I tried two new recipes though, peppermint truffles and turtles. I wanted to keep everything really simple and quick this year so all these were very easy recipes.




Easy Turtles
20 square pretzels
20 rolos
20 pecan halves

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Arrange pretzels on cookie sheet and place one rolo on top of each pretzel. Bake in oven for 2-3 minutes (just till soft). Then gently push a pecan half on top of rolo.

I refrigerated these but I liked them better when I left them on the counter and they were soft.


Peppermint Truffles (courtesy of Heidi)
4oz cream cheese
1 t flavoring (I used peppermint this time but you can do others, like coconut, almond, etc.)
1 C melted chocolate chips (I used white)
3 C powdered sugar
1 package almond bark

Mix cream cheese and flavoring till smooth. Then add melted chocolate chips. Add powdered sugar till it reaches cookie dough consistency. I put the mixture in the freezer for about 10 minutes to harden it. Then you scoop the mixture into small balls and place on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper. I put them back in the freezer just for a few minutes while I melted the almond bark. Then dip the balls in the almond bark and set on wax paper to harden. I also sprinkled crushed candy canes while the bark was still wet. You could try different flavors combination too like I did coconut flavoring in chocolate almond bark with coconut on top and those were delicious!