{"id":367,"date":"2010-12-23T18:13:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-02-21T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:02:32","slug":"my-house-has-been-taken-over-by-holiday-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/index.php\/2010\/my-house-has-been-taken-over-by-holiday-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"My House Has Been Taken Over by Holiday Treats!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I decided to try making sweets for coworkers this year. What I thought would be a small undertaking turned out to be quite a project! The menu was supposed to be chocolate dipped pretzels, cookies, homemade caramels, white chocolate popcorn all tied up in a cute decorative bag with ribbons. My first attempt at juggling too many baking projects at once ended up with burnt cookies and burnt chocolate, so I opted to simplify simplify simplify.<\/p>\n

This was my first year making homemade caramel ever! I was blown away that I somehow pulled off making lots of delicious homemade caramels<\/a>. Which turned out to be a big hit and the effort was well worth the result.<\/p>\n

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I made pretzels dipped in vanilla chocolate chips with holiday sprinkles. The trick that I learned with these was to melt the chocolate in the microwave. It seems too simple, but melting it in the pan took so much longer and I splashed water into one batch which destroyed the chocolate altogether. I would cook for 30 seconds, stir, cook for 30 seconds and stir again.<\/p>\n

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I just melted the chocolate chips, dipped the pretzel and pressed it into the sprinkles and laid out on wax paper.<\/p>\n

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Another big hit was white chocolate popcorn<\/a> with holiday sprinkles.<\/p>\n

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