I had my oven heated up yesterday when making dinner, which seemed like the perfect time to try these ornaments. The photo shows the results of two different methods.
For the bell, a metal cookie cutter was placed on a parchment lined baking sheet and the mints were jammed arranged in it before going into the oven. The circular one was cut from a square of mints that were allowed to melt together without any border holding them in.
When making these, you will come across some challenges. Toward the end, 30 seconds in the oven can make a huge difference between done and “what happened?”. You can see on the bottom left part of the bell where the pattern started to blur too much as a result of this. A star that must have been in a hot spot in the oven did not fare as well and is mostly a red smudge.
Some will break. When removing the pieces from the cookie cutters, any thin or intricate designs will be more difficult to remove. I have a peppermint tree without a trunk as a result of this.
Some candy may leak out around the bottom of the cookie cutter. Because it is so thin, these candy pieces were easy to break off before removing the rest of the candy from the cutter. These pieces are still tasty.
The scraps and broken ones will not go to waste. Crushed, they will go into some peppermint bark where they will not need to look pretty.
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Very cute idea! You could probably mod podge them if you wanted them to last a long time.
I’ll have to try that, although I could see them melting in the attic over the summer.
This is my favorite of your Christmas crafts 🙂
This was by far the easiest of them too. The hardest part was unwrapping the mints.
Those are so cute. I keep seeing the candy dishes made out of mints too but I can’t seem to keep mints in the house long enough to try it out
I made a tray of them last year to hold the cookies. The secret is buying them and making something with them in the same day.
Oh I see… That might work 🙂