Tiny Teddy Sleighs
This is totally for those of you out there that don't cook. It is completely assembly only! No screwdrivers nor batteries required.
A 2D friend of mine posted a link for this recipe. I wish I could find the link......but what with everything, I can't remember where that post was posted and in any event, I've got pictures.
For this recipe, you'll need:
Candy Cane, mini ones.
Do you know that it is near impossible to find individually unwrapped Candy Canes? I started out with a box of 50!
These were the ones that I found broken or cracked! Perfectly fine for eating or handing out on Christmas Day; but not cool for this recipe.
And the wrapping? My bane in life! I am capable of doing a lot of things in real life; but the bane of my existence has got to be things that come shrink wrapped (like my home delivered newspaper. I've decided that the aggravation of the unwrapping is more than I can bear and so we will be terminating our home delivery subscription when it expires).
I spent the better part of 30 minutes with very un-Dislike words coming out of my mouth and being an electrostatic magnet to these things!
Hmmm......maybe I did start out with a few more whole candy canes than were actually broken in the box. But I'm not admitting to anything!!
Milky Way, mini bars - cut in half. Yet more packaging! Thankfully, using the scissors to cut open makes the unwrapping a lot easier to deal with for this ingredient!
Tiny Teddies - one box of any description. I went with the half-back chocolate coated variety. And some frosting - of any description. I went with Betty Crocker chocolate frosting; and discovered a whole new taste sensation.
Those teddies and the frosting are a match made in heaven!
To recap. My starting ingredients:
To assemble, take two candy canes and use the frosting to attach to the Milky Way. I put a dob of frosting at the bottom of each half the Milky Way. Push the candy canes in place with one half of the Milky Way (I started with the back section); then ease the second half of the Milky Way under the cane curl.
Put a little frosting on the back of the Tiny Teddy and put him between the two Milky Way halves.
Continue for as long as you have ingredients!
My finished product.
The kids loved them!
He has almost 70% of his eyesight and those 3 infections are pretty much gone. It's an uphill battle with his foot, and, since he has dropsy, it's hard for him to get around....
). The bane of my existance.....packaging!!!.....took up way more time than I expected. And I couldn't use a knife or scissors to help either. I tried...only broke more! If I can find unwrapped ones, I might consider them for next year. Once everything was unwrapped, it literally took about 5 minutes to assemble a dozen of these sleighs.
Although, it did drizzle this morning and is cloudy right now. Stay warm!
