Fairy Wands

Serves: 12                        Prep time:  20 minutes                        Cook time: 20 minutes

24                                     pretzel rods

2 11 oz                                    white chocolate chips

24                                     caramel candy squares

1 T                                    vegetable oil

colored sugar sprinkles

chopped nuts

mini chocolate chips

Pour white chocolate chips and oil into a microwave safe bowl.  Microwave for 2 minutes stirring once halfway through, set aside.

Using the heat from your hands roll a candy square between them until it is pliable.  Once easily workable wrap the caramel around the top of the pretzel rod and wind around leaving a 2 inch space at the bottom.  Dip the caramel covered part of the pretzel and roll in the white chocolate to coat.  Then sprinkle with sugar sprinkles, chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips.  Place on a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet to set.  Cool in fridge for 20 minutes.  Repeat with remaining pretzels.

Tasty Tidbit:  Decorate these with green and red sprinkles or blue sprinkles for Christmas and Hanukkah, or the pink, green and yellow you see here for easter.  Or you can make them in your kid’s soccer team colors.  Everyone will ask you to bring this one to parties for years to come!

Meaty Morsel:  They also make a great gift wrapped up in cellophane and a ribbon!  Or they’d be a best seller at your next bake sale!

This recipe is always a huge hit.  My sister in law got this idea from her sister in law and around holiday time none of us can go a party without the hostess asking us to whip up a batch of “THE pretzels.” You’ve been warned, be careful who you make them for because they’ll be asking for them all the time too.

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serves: 12  Prep time: 5 minutes cook time: 11 minutes

1 refrigerated tube sugar cookie dough

12 small peanut butter cups

green and red sprinkles (or blue for Hannukah)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Remove cookie dough from plastic lining.  Cut tube of dough into 24 equal slices.  Place 12 cookies down on a lined baking sheet.  In the center of each cookie place one peanut butter cup.  Cover with another slice of cookie dough.

Decorate with approriate colored sprinkles.  Bake at 350 for 11 minutes.  Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes then move to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.  Enjoy with a big glass of milk.

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