Tis the season t eat dessert! The holiday season’s omnipresent sweets and treats make it a perfectly good reason to indulge. And why not indulge?! If you’re looking for a Christmas-y snack to bring to a holiday party, keep around the house, or even just to keep for yourself, these are five of the most delicious, cheap, and easy desserts to make this Christmas break! They can even double as a party favor you can throw in a bag with some ribbon or use as a gift!
SNOWMEN OREOS
What you need:
- Bag of Oreos
- Small sticks (from a craft store)
- White melting chocolate
- The best kind of chocolate to use is the kind that comes in a bag and is specifically for melting! (Comes in tons of fun colors too)
- Chocolate chips or any candy you want to make the faces
What you do:
- Push the sticks into the middle of the Oreos
- Melt the white chocolate and dip the Oreos into it
- Put the Oreos onto wax paper and let the chocolate harden
- Make a cute face!
- You can use chocolate chips, frosting pens, edible ink pens or anything you want to draw on the face. Be as creative as you want!
CHOCOLATE COVERED OREOS
What you need:
- Bag of Oreos
- White/Regular melting chocolate
- Candy canes or crushed peppermint pieces
- OR red and green sprinkles
- (Sticks optional)
What you do:
- Melt the chocolate
- You can use white chocolate, regular chocolate, or even red or green chocolate from a craft store
- Dip the Oreos into the chocolate and put them on wax paper (sometimes putting the Oreos on a stick to dip them then taking the sticks out makes things easy and less messy).
- Before the chocolate on the Oreos hardens, sprinkle crushed peppermint or the red and green sprinkles onto the top of the Oreos.
PEPPERMINT MARSHMALLOWS
What you need:
- Bag of marshmallows
- Box of mini candy canes
- Melting Chocolate
- Crushed peppermint
What you do:
- Melt the chocolate.
- Dip the marshmallows into the chocolate halfway.
- Before the chocolate hardens, roll the marshmallows onto the crushed peppermint.
- Stick a candy cane into the top of the marshmallow.
CLASSIC CHRISTMAS SUGAR COOKIES WITH A TWIST
What you need:
- Sugar cookie dough
- Red and green sugar (can be found at craft and grocery stores)
- Hershey’s Candy Cane kisses
What you do:
- Make sugar cookie dough.
-You can make it from scratch or from a “just add (insert ingredient here)” box
- Once the dough is made, roll the dough into small balls.
Number of balls you roll will be how many cookies are made.
- Roll the dough balls in the green or red sugar.
Looks the best when you have both colored cookies!
- Bake the cookies.
- Once the cookies are done, move them onto wax paper and let them cool. You should let them cool to the point where they aren’t hot anymore but they’re still a little soft on the top/in the middle.
-You want to be able to push the kisses into the cookies but don’t want the cookies to melt the kisses!
- Take your Hershey Kisses and push them into the middle of the cookie.
PEPPERMINT BARK
What you need:
- White melting chocolate
- Regular melting chocolate
- Crushed peppermint
What you do:
- Lay out a fairly large piece of wax paper.
- Melt the white chocolate.
- Once its all melted, pour it or spoon it right onto the wax paper
-You can spread it with a spoon to be as thick or thin as you want.
- Let the white chocolate harden.
- Melt the regular brown chocolate and pour it right on top of the hardened white chocolate.
- Before the regular chocolate hardens, sprinkle peppermint onto the top.
- Once it bark is done, break it up into pieces.
Peppermint bark doesn’t have to be, and usually isn’t square. The pieces can be as big or as small and as square or as jagged as you want!
Happy Holidays, Collegiettes! Enjoy!