Sugar Plum Treats

This simple treat - candy coated marshmallow on a stick - can be made for just about any holiday but I enjoy them most passed out to casts of Nutcracker productions! You will need:

• 14 oz. bag of candy melts (I like the Wilton brand and find it @ Michael's or Jo-Ann's)
• craft sticks or lollipop sticks
• 10 oz. bag of large marshmallows
• assorted decorating sprinkles, chopped nuts, flaked coconut, and candy
• aluminum foil
• non-stick spray

1. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and lightly spray it with non-stick spray.
2. Melt the candy according to package directions. Be careful not to over heat it - the color will be cloudy or have bubbles once it hardens.
3. Insert a craft or lollipop stick into each marshmallow, dip into the candy melt then into the decoration of choice. I have small bowls of different decorations all out at once and rotate each time I dip a marshmallow to give me a variety of different looking "Sugar Plums".
4. Place each marshmallow on the lined cookie sheet to harden up.
5. Once they're all decorated, chill in the freezer for 15 minutes.

You could wrap them individually in candy sucker bags tied with ribbon or stick into a Styrofoam dome. These treats could also make great place setting markers for your Christmas Dinner Table or a "Saint Nick-ed" (similar neighborhood "event" to being Boo'd - see Halloween posts) treat to pass out to neighbors. I have even seen these at cookie exchanges. I assure you will be asked to make these treats for other events too.