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Giving Homemade Candy for Christmas By Monica Resinger http://homemakersjournal.com A great way to save money each holiday season is to give homemade candy. I have received homemade candies as gifts and I always love it when I do. It gives me a chance to try new candies and appreciate the fact that the giver spent time on me! How thoughtful! I have also given homemade candies as gifts and found it to be a fun tradition. With all of the following packaging ideas, be sure your candies have cooled first before packing them. If you don't, they will stick together and become a mess. As a bonus, include the recipe. Write it out on a pretty recipe card, or print from the computer and include with the candies. Be sure to include a note with the recipe that it is the recipe for the candies you gave them whatever year it is. There are many ways to present candies as gifts, a couple I'll mention here. One way is to save coffee cans large or small; clean them, decorate them (if you wish), line them with wax paper, then fill with fresh cooled candy. You can decorate the coffee cans with a coat of spay paint and holiday stencils, or wrap it with wrapping paper. Just use your imagination or search the Internet for ideas. Another great container for candies is a tin that previously held something else such as tea, purchased cookies or candies, etc. You may have some already, but if not, thrift stores have an abundance of them (many are decorative) for very reasonable prices. Clean first of course, then line with wax paper and fill with cooled fresh candy. These are great because there's a variety of sizes that will suit your giving needs and if you look for decorative ones, you will not need to do any decorating yourself... just add a bow and voila! Pretty plastic holiday plates will also work. Just neatly present the candy, cover with colored plastic wrap and top with a bow. Here's a delicious candy recipe to get you started: Buckeye Balls 24 ounces powdered sugar 16 ounces crunchy peanut butter 1-cup butter or margarine -- softened 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips 1 tablespoon shortening Position knife blade in food processor. Add half each of powdered sugar, peanut butter, and butter; top with cover. Process until thoroughly mixed. Shape into 1-inch balls. Repeat process. Combine chocolate and shortening in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer until chocolate melts. Dip each ball in chocolate until partially coated; place on waxed paper until chocolate hardens. Store in airtight container in refrigerator. Yield: about 7-dozen (4 per serving). For many more delicious candy recipes, check out the Candy Recipe E-book: http://homemakersjournal.com/candyrecipes.htm Get 7 holiday e-books for the price of 3! You'll get 1- Christmas Ideas for Gifts, Ornaments, Cards and More! 2- Frugal Creative Christmas Ideas! 3- The Cookie E-Cookbook, 4- Creative Mixes E-Cookbook, 5- The Beverage Mix Cookbook, 6- Toy Oven Mixes and 7- The Candy Recipe E-book. For more information, click here: http://homemakersjournal.com/ebooklets.htm Get Monica's FREE weekly e-zine for homemakers! To subscribe, just send a blank e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
