Fun Holiday Recipes

Eve Livingood
December 10, 2020

Fun Holiday Recipes    

By Eve Livingood

 

     For me, my favorite part of the holiday season is all the great food, especially desserts. I always see really amazing looking festive recipes on my Instagram explore page this time of year. I finally decided to try and make a few of them myself. My creations included chocolate covered candy canes, peppermint bark, and wreath shaped cinnamon rolls. I tried to find the easiest recipes with the least amount of steps and ingredients, so hopefully, these will be desserts you can easily recreate at home! 

 

  • Chocolate Covered Candy Canes

 

           Ingredients:

           -Chocolate chips

           -Candy Canes 

 

Instructions:

  1. Line a baking tray with tinfoil 
  2.  In the microwave, melt chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl for thirty second intervals stirring in between until chocolate is melted
  3. Dip the candy canes into the melted chocolate chips and place them on the baking tray
  4. Put the tray with the candy canes on it into the freezer until ready (it should only take 15-20 minutes) 

 

  • Peppermint Bark

 

Ingredients: 

-Candy Canes

-Peppermint extract (optional) 

-4 cups of dark or milk chocolate chips 

-3 cups of white chocolate chips

 

Instructions:

  1. Put candy canes into a plastic bag and use a rolling pin to crush them into pieces
  2.  In the microwave, melt chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl for thirty second intervals stirring in between until chocolate is melted (Once melted, you can optionally mix in peppermint extract)
  3. Line a baking tray with parchment paper 
  4. Spread melted chocolate over baking tray
  5. Freeze for five minutes
  6. Melt white chocolate chips and spread over the now frozen dark or milk chocolate chips on your baking tray
  7. Sprinkle crushed candy canes over chocolate
  8. Freeze for one hour
  9. Break peppermint bark into pieces and you’re done

 

  • Cinnamon Roll Wreath

 

Ingredients:

– 2 tbsp Sugar

-2 tbsp Brown sugar

-1 tbsp cinnamon 

-4 tbsp Butter

-Pizza dough (Most stores sell it premade) 

 

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. In a bowl, mix together 2 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp brown sugar, and 1 tbsp cinnamon 
  3. Mix in 4 tbsp of softened butter 
  4. Lay the pizza dough out flat and spread the sugar and butter mixture evenly
  5.  Roll the dough into a tube
  6. Cut the tube in half lengthwise
  7. Twist the two pieces of dough together to form one long braid
  8. Bring both sides together to make it into a circular wreath shape
  9. Bake for 35 minutes