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Christmas Treats–Peppermint Brittle

by Kelly Crawford
Peppermint Brittle
(So easy!)

Ingredients

Crushed candy canes, to yield 1 cup
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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8 comments

Young Christian Woman December 23, 2008 - 8:04 am

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.

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mrshester December 23, 2008 - 10:07 am

That looks so yummy! I may have to try this 🙂

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Kim M. December 23, 2008 - 1:33 pm

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 !!!

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Lynn December 23, 2008 - 1:35 pm

I have made this before and it is so good.

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Young Christian Woman December 24, 2008 - 8:57 am

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.

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Word Warrior December 24, 2008 - 9:27 am

YCW,

I am laughing! I used rolling pin–worked great. But I think you had more fun 😉

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Jeanette in WA December 25, 2008 - 12:58 am

We used our play hammers and ziplock bags and the kids had a ball! It turned out so yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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Civilla December 26, 2008 - 8:58 pm

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!

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