Leftover Sweets

January 07, 2011
Denise Smith

The food talk around the office this week is all about how to use up the leftover chocolate and candies from the holidays, especially for those trying to stay away from post-holiday excess temptations. Some of us have confessed to not actually having any leftovers (it was a yummy holiday season indeed), but for those that do, we’ve been brainstorming on how to make use of them beyond just eating them straight up (not that there is anything wrong with that).

Here are some of our suggestions:

• Plain Chocolate. Make a chocolate fondue for a special dessert, do up some s’mores after a skating party or melt it (in a glass bowl over simmering hot water is easiest) and drizzle it over ice cream.
• Hard Candies. Store in an airtight container and use for cupcake/cake décor for your next bake sale or even for next year’s gingerbread house. Create mini-bags of candy to hand out when watching movies or on car trips.
• Candy Canes. Crush with rolling pin or meat tenderizer and store in an airtight container for next season’s chocolate bark [http://www.savvymom.ca/index.php/pages/peppermint_crunch_bark/] or cupcake décor, or just save whole to use as decorations on next year’s tree.
• Whole Nuts. Crack open, crush nuts and store in plastic bags in the freezer for baking or as salad toppers.

What do you do with your leftover candies? We’d love to know.

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