The Idea
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My Interpretation
Was that a rimshot, I heard? Yeah, mine kinda look like a joke, don't they? I'll tell ya' what, though...I'm willing to bet they tasted just as good.
When I saw this pin, I had the idea of making these to give as gifts to neighbors, babysitters, extended family, etc. I was originally going to gift them wrapped up in those decorated Pringles cans you've seen on Pinterest, but came to the conclusion that no one I know eats Pringles, and I wasn't going to be able to get my hands on any empty cans without buying new ones and dumping the chips into the garbage.
Wasn't meant to be.
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I bought my white chocolate, little round peppermints and Oreo's and set off on a journey. If you've read the blog attached to the original pin, you know there isn't a whole lot of instruction. Which is okay, since I probably wouldn't have read the whole thing, anyway. I have an issue with seeing a picture of something, saying, "Oh, yeah - I can pull that off", and then winging the whole thing without any sense of direction. I did, however, google some instruction on melting chocolate. I've heard that candy can be super hard to perfect. I decided to go with the microwave method since there seemed to be less of a chance of me burning something. Also, I don't have a candy thermometer to make things a little more professional. It went a little somethin' like this:
Pour white chocolate chips in microwave-safe bowl
Microwave for a minute
Stir, stir, stir
Microwave 30 seconds
Stir
Microwave 30 seconds
Assume that's probably a good consistency, move on to dunking Oreo's
Something I still haven't figured out is how to dunk a cookie into chocolate using any sort of utensil but not leave a utensil mark behind. Maybe I should have googled it. Regardless, I dunked my Oreo's into the white chocolate and then laid them out onto wax paper to cool. I felt like the chocolate was a little thick (maybe not hot enough?) and didn't entirely cover all of the cookie, but decided it was good enough for a first attempt.
The last step was adding the peppermint crumbles. There is probably a company somewhere on this planet that makes peppermint crumbles already done up for you, but I decided to crumble my own. Not nearly as pretty. Also, I wonder if crumbled candy canes would have looked any differently. Maybe they would have been easier to crush, anyway. Those little peppermints are tough! I put mine into a plastic baggie, wrapped the baggie in a dish towel and set to work. I would like to tell you that I used a hammer. Unfortunately, my husband was out on a remodel job that day and had in his possession our only hammer. I improvised and bashed those little boogers with a rolling pin. Yikes! It was loud and violent, but they succumbed. Lastly, I sprinkled my peppermint crumbs onto the top of the still-warm chocolate. The red striping wasn't as vivid, unfortunately, but not a total bummer. I let them cool completely and then packaged them up! They tasted pretty amazing, really. I mean, beauty isn't everything, right?
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