The picture that was inspiration for this project showed regular peppermint sticks but we thought it might be more fun to use candy canes. Not to mention I couldn’t find any long peppermint sticks! There were 12 candy canes in the package but we ended up with 11 to give because I accidentally broke one when I opened it. Landon was excited that I did because that meant he could eat it! He said they were very good by the way.
We started by melting some white almond bark. I knew that this project wouldn’t take a lot of almond bark but I wanted the melty goodness to be deep enough for me to dip the candy cane for a good coating. So, we used a small glass measuring cup to do the melting. Because the cup wasn’t very big we were able to use a small amount (about 2 ½ squares) of almond bark and kept it deep enough to dip.
After dipping the cane we laid it on wax paper and sprinkled it with red, green, and white Christmas sprinkles. Landon tried different kinds but the little ball sprinkles stuck the best and looked cutest.
When we finished all the candy canes we let them dry for 20-30 minutes. After they were completely set we put them in sandwich bags and tied ribbon around them. I would have preferred cute Christmas ribbon but instead we used some less feminine looking ribbon.
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