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(So easy!)
Ingredients
Crushed candy canes, to yield 1 cup
2 pounds white chocolate
Peppermint flavorings, optional
2 pounds white chocolate
Peppermint flavorings, optional
Directions
Place candy canes in a plastic bag and hammer into 1/4-inch chunks or smaller. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler. Combine candy cane chunks with chocolate (add peppermint flavoring at this point if desired.) Pour mixture onto a cookie sheet layered with parchment or waxed paper and place in the refrigerator for 45 minutes or until firm. Remove from cookie sheet and break into pieces (like peanut brittle.)
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I may just do this for one of my last-minute Christmas cookies. I don’t have candy canes, but I have starlite mints. Or I might just through some mints or butterscotch in with peanuts and marshmellows, mix with melted chocolate, put it in a muffin paper, and call it chocolate-covered trail mix.
That looks so yummy! I may have to try this 🙂
I have made this before and it is good even in regular chocolate too. Looks so tasty. By the way… everyone that I made that fudge for said it was the BEST! THANK YOU!!! I think I made at least 5 batches of it !!!
I have made this before and it is so good.
Just for reference, when crushing peppermints and missing your cooking mallet, if you are tempted to substitute:
Empty baby food jar:
Great–until it shatters. Did you know they could do that?
Half-full can of baking powder: ineffective, and dents the can.
Full can of hash:
only slightly more effective, and also dents the can.
Small frying pan:
somewhat effective. Messy.
Cooking mallet that wasn’t so missing after all:
Not as effective as the baby food jar, actually. But didn’t shatter.
(There was wax paper between the baby food jar and the peppermints, so I shouldn’t be feeding anyone broken glass).
Feel free to laugh at me. I would.
YCW,
I am laughing! I used rolling pin–worked great. But I think you had more fun 😉
We used our play hammers and ziplock bags and the kids had a ball! It turned out so yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I made this peppermint brittle for Christmas, and even though all I had was dark chocolate (1 slab of dark bakers chocolate and 2 cany canes), it came out GOOD. Oh, to break up the candy canes, I used my handy-dandy inner plastic liner bags from boxes of breakfast cereal. Put the candy canes in one of those (they are heavy-duty plastic), and crush with a hammer. Perfect!