To the spirit of Christmas. I'm sorry. I only found 3 of my Christmas CDs and after 3 weeks of Julie Andrews, Perry Como and Celtic Christmas I pulled out The The and yelled "Merry Christmas" over the swear words. I'm sorry but I couldn't take it any more......I was finally reduced to listening to the local radio station for my Christmas music. After 2 days of Alan Jackson & Alison Krauss - "The Angels Cried" and "Christmas in Dixie" by Alabama. Finally the day before Christmas The Husband found my holiday music stash on top of the TV!!!! It's a Christmas miracle! I was too damn short to see the top of the TV and there they were the whole time. I did enjoy listening to The The though. Maybe they need to produce a Christams Album. I'm sure they'd do a great job. I can imagine they’d do wonderfully covering Hard Candy Christmas. I can just hear Matt Johnson singing out “Maybe I'll hit the bars, Maybe I'll count the stars until dawn, Me, I will go on….” Fa la la la..... I was facing my last batch of popcorn. Really. I have popped nearly 14 pounds of it and used up 27 bags of red hot candy. I don't even want to think about how much butter I melted.....since we had company for Christmas dinner I to whipped up a batch of candy that wasn’t red or hot to add to my cookie tray. These are nice since you can just make one small batch and be done with it. I cheated and melted the caramels on the stove while I was sorting out the pecans. Melting the caramel on the stove takes a bit longer, but it's worth it. I also recommend using Kraft caramels. Normally I buy the store brand but the cost was pretty much the same and the Kraft brand melted better. |
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Christmas Turtle Candies
Ingredients This recipe makes 24 candies
4 ounces pecan halves
24 individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
1 teaspoon shortening
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Cover cookies sheet with aluminum foil, shiny side up. Lightly grease foil with vegetable oil spray.
2. Place 3 pecan halves in a Y shape on the foil. Place 1 caramel candy in the center of each Y. Bake just until caramel is melted, about 9 to 10 minutes. I found these didn’t melt very well & then tried melting the caramel on the stove and drizzling it over the pecans.. IT WORKED. You try it and see which works for you.
3. Heat shortening and chocolate chips over low heat just until chocolate is melted. Spread over candies and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
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