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Christmas Candy

Prep Time 5 hours
Total Time 5 hours

Ingredients
  

  • 3 # Chocolate Almond Bark
  • 3 # White Almond Bark
  • 12 oz chocolate chips
  • Red & Green Christmas Sprinkles optional
  • 4 # of salted Spanish or Party peanuts
  • Candy Wax - optional
  • 1 jar of Peanut Butter
  • Ritz crackers
  • 1 bag of Red & Green M&Ms
  • 19.5 oz bag of Rollo candies
  • 2 cups of Pecan Halves
  • A large bag of Bugles
  • A large bag of Small Knot Pretzels

Instructions
 

  • Peanut Clusters
  • Melt 1.5# of the chocolate almond bark and the 12 oz package of chocolate chips.
  • You can melt a 1/2 piece of canning wax and stir it into the almond bark.
  • Start with 1.5# of the peanuts and stir through - add more peanuts if the mix seems soupy.
  • Drop by the spoonful onto wax paper and allow to cool.
  • This will make 70-90 peanut clusters (depending on your spoon size)
  • Peanut Butter Ritz Crackers
  • Using 2 tubes of Ritz Crackers, spread 1 cracker with peanut butter and then place another cracker on top.
  • Melt 1.5# of the chocolate almond bark (+wax if you'd like)
  • Using a fork, dip the crackers into the melted almond bark and then place on wax paper to cool. You can then sprinkle them with Christmas green and red sprinkles if you'd like.
  • This will make 25-30 chocolate peanut butter crackers, depending on how many of the crackers are broken.
  • Make more peanut clusters with any remaining chocolate almond bark in the bowl.
  • Repeat with 1# of white almond bark and another 2 tubes of Ritz crackers.
  • This will make ~25-30 white peanut butter crackers.
  • Make candy covered pretzels with any remaining white almond bark.
  • Bugle Ice Cream Cones
  • Go through your bag of bugles, and select the bugles that have a big enough "mouth" to hold an M&M candy.
  • Melt 1# of white almond bark.
  • Dip the open ends of the Bugles into the almond bark, insert an M&M candy into the mouth of each, and then place on wax paper to cool.
  • This will typically make 100-120 bugle cones, depending on how many bugles are usable.
  • Make Candy Covered Pretzels with the rest of the white almond bark.
  • Candy Covered Pretzels
  • Use the remaining white almond bark after making peanut butter crackers or Bugle ice cream cones.
  • Using a fork, dip the pretzels into the white almond bark and then place on wax paper to cool.
  • While still warm, sprinkle with red and/or green candy sprinkles.
  • This will make about 125 candy covered pretzels.
  • Turtle Candies
  • Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F.
  • Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Place pretzels on the paper and put a Rolo candy on top of each pretzel.
  • Bake in the oven until the Rolo is soft, but you don't want it melted, about 5 minutes
  • Remove from the oven, and promptly place a pecan half on each Rolo, pressing down to squish it.
  • This will make about 90 candies.