We’re spelling LOVE with our left over Holiday candy canes. I posted last year how to make Candy Cane Hearts, so this year for Valentines I thought we’d shape them into Love Letters.
- Take off the plastic on your candy canes. It doesn’t matter if these break from opening, as they need to be all different sizes anyway.
- Place the candy cane pieces onto a tray lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Put the tray into a 250 degree oven for 10 minutes.
- Shape them (be careful, hot) right out of the oven. They are movable for a minute or two. You can put them back into the oven if you need to reshape them again.
- Some letters kept breaking, so you can just use them as lines and form the letters that way as well.
UPDATE: check out The Melton Point blog to see how she used a skewer to make a hole in these to hang with ribbon!
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Cute!
You can also take two mini candy canes, and put them together like a heart. Use royal icing to glue them together.
Yay! Super cute. I’m picturing dipping the edge of each letter in white chocolate and sprinkling with red sprinkles.
I love this idea. Thank you!
I have two dozen candy canes sitting in a mug on our kitchen counter that I couldn’t bear to throw away and now they have a purpose.
For another fun variation to these, check out Skip to my Lou for Candy Cane Hearts on a Stick!
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/01/21/candy-cane-hearts/
Wow! Great idea! I have never heard of this before!
Heather
Nicki – I love the idea for embellishing these to be even cuter. Thanks for sharing.
What a CUTE idea! I love your posts, I have no idea where you get your never ending inspiration from… but I could sure use some :)
Golly! You honestly have the best ideas. I love those candy cane hearts. I had no idea they could be moldable!
thank you so much for the idea, I love it!
Super cute idea !
Awesome idea! I wish I had stocked up on the ones on sale.
This is a fantastic idea! I linked to it from my post today.
http://asoftplacetoland-kimba.blogspot.com/2009/01/saturday-linky-love_24.html
I can’t wait to meet you at BlissDom!
Kimba
I was just about to throw away the candy canes I had in a glass from Christmas. Thanks for the great idea! Feel free to check my blog to see how I used them–
JE
Oh my gosh!! What a cool way to use the left over candy canes from Christmas.
this such a cute idea!
This is a great idea for December candy canes that are leftover for Valentine’s Day. I am excited to get started on these, it would be so neat to spell out ” I love you” or my kids names for Valentine’s Day. Great Idea! I had no idea you could bend them by putting them in the oven–very cute.
-Sylvia
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