White Chocolate Peppermint Covered Pretzels

Sweet...salty...minty...yummy..I have to say I love chocolate covered pretzels. White chocolate is my favorite. Ask my mom. Out of 7 children for Easter the "Easter Bunny" brought me a white chocolate lamb. Whenever I eat white chocolate I think back on those Easters with such fond memories. But now this is Christmas. Peppermint....so without further ado here is the recipe.....
Ingredients:


24 oz white chocolate (use whatever variety you prefer; chips or block)
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
One bag of pretzels traditional pretzels that are thick and large, pretzels rods would be fine too.
1 box of red and white Candy Canes, unwrapped and crushed. You could use red green and white too.

 Directions:

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler on the stove.  Once chocolate is melted, stir in peppermint extract.  Dip pretzels in and cover with white chocolate.  Place chocolate covered pretzels on wax paper, and sprinkle with crushed candy canes.

Oatmeal Cookie Bath Soak

After a long day a nice bath feels so good. For your next bath make up some of this inexpensive bath soak and enjoy! Here is the how to video. Please be careful after making this and adding to your bath water as it does become a little slippery. Don't forget while you are soaking to have some real oatmeal cookies nearby because if you love oatmeal cookies like me this is going to make you craving them..lol. This smells so good!

Here's the ingredients:
Recipe:
1 c. rolled oats or instant oatmeal
1/2 c. baking soda
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
Blend in a blender or food processor until you have a powdery substance.

Instructions: Place a scoopful ( coffee scoops work well )  in warm running bath water and enjoy your cookie-scented bath.
And here's the video. Don't forget to check out more videos from CookingAndCrafting on youtube.