up candy canes

Place the candy coating in a microwave-safe bowl. Make sure you do

not get any water in the bowl. Any water at all will cause the candy

coating not to melt properly and separate.

Microwave the candy coating for 1 min., then stir and microwave an

additional min., until it is completely melted and smooth.

Stick a pretzel rod into the chocolate, and with a spoon, cover about

3/4 of the pretzel with chocolate. Let the excess drip back into the

bowl.

Sprinkle the chocolate with either red and green colored sprinkles,

crushed up peppermints, or stick red and green M&Ms to the

chocolate.

Place the decorated pretzel on a piece of waxed paper or aluminum

foil, and let it dry completely, about 1 hr. Gently pull the pretzels

off the paper.

 Pretzel Bouquet

Lay about 10 White Chocolate Pretzels on a sheet of red or green

tissue paper.

Wrap the pretzels up like a bouquet of roses would be wrapped, and

tie red, green and white curling ribbon around the middle to secure.

With scissors, curl the ribbon, then tie on a small gift card.

Pretzels In A Glass

Find a tall glass, such as a parfait glass, or one of those neat

glasses mixed drinks are served in.

Pour some holiday candies, such as M&Ms or hard mints, in the bottom

of the glass. Put as many pretzels as you can in the glass sitting on

the candies, but leave a little room for them to move around, so they

don’t break when they are pulled out.

Cover the top of the glass with a piece of colored plastic wrap, or

you can cut a piece of holiday fabric, and double the width of the

top with pinking shears to cover.

Tie a pretty ribbon around the glass to secure, and you have a neat

gift for someone special!