My Favorite Childhood Holiday Treat
Today I’m sharing a favorite childhood treat that my mom would always let me help make during her binge-holiday-treat-making-days. Is my mom the only one who would buy so many ingredients and then hammer out a TON of Christmas candies in like 8 hours? I’m not kidding when I say this lady is the queen at Christmas Treats! In one day she would pump out:
No bake cookies, cinnamon rock candy, chocolate fudge, peanut butter fudge, chocolate covered peanut butter balls, divinity and finally my personal favorite, bacon & eggs. Not to mention the occasional banana nut bread.
A true queen!
My favorite bits about todays treat:
Only 3 ingredients
Sweet and salty
Make in less than 30 minutes
Can it get much better than that?
ALL YOU NEED:
1 bag of small pretzel sticks
1 pkg of vanilla almond bark
a bunch of yellow m&ms*
*We used to have a local candy store where we’d go and buy just the yellow m&ms but that store has since been closed down. Now I just buy a large bag of m&ms and pick out the yellow and green ones. If I run out of yellow’s I use the green and just call them green eggs & ham!
DIRECTIONS:
On wax paper, lay out pretzels in sets of 3, making sure to leave a couple inches between each set
Melt the almond bark in the microwave in increments of 30 seconds to prevent burning.
Grab a spoon and carefully drizzle an “egg white” in the middle of each set of pretzels. Make sure the almond bark flows a bit over the sides.
Finally, add a yellow m&m in the middle of the egg white. (I like to place the m&m logo facing down for a cleaner look!)
Let cool until the almond bark is hard.
This is a fair warning: try to not eat your body weight in these candies, it’s very easy to do!
What is your favorite childhood holiday treat? Tell me in the comment section below!
xx, Riss
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