When my mom was young, she thought all applesauce was made in your kitchen. My grandpa would ride around in the country and find wild apples or a real apple orchard. (I’m talking very fresh apples!) She still remembers grandpa in his 90’s sitting in his chair, peeling apples for his famous secret sauce. It wasn’t until his 90’s that he shared his secret ingredient that takes his wonderful applesauce from ordinary to extraordinary……
After posting my Scarecrow Crunch, I received lots of requests for something similar with a Christmas theme. So thank you for your requests and patience because this was fun to sketch and make snacks for. You could use any snack mix with our Christmas Crunch Poem but we decided to play with chocolate & pretzels creating two options… Whimsical White Chocolate Pretzel Trees & Chocolate Peanut Butter Christmas Rolo Pretzel Bites 🙂 Just dip honey pretzel sticks in melted white…
Today I’m sharing my mom’s favorite three ingredient hot chocolate mix using powdered milk instead of powdered creamer. Since we wanted to give some away as gifts, we decided to add some cute snowflake sprinkles, marshmallows, candy canes, hugs & kisses to make it extra special. Then we packaged up in bags and mugs for individual servings and then we filled recycled Starbucks jars to create a 5 serving size gift! You can pair with my original Snowflake…