Candy Cane Stirrers : 5 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

Like usual, to get started, you need supplies. What you use is up to you as these supplies are very easy to swap out with your ingredients of choice.

Ingredients:

• Candy Canes - I also tried dunking a little peppermint candy and those could work too, Peppermint sticks are also an option - If you want to end up with a certain number of candy cane stirrers, make sure you buy more than you need. Candy canes are delicate and could break while coming out of the box, while you are unwrapping them, while you are decorating them, or even just by looking at them wrong!
• Chocolates you can melt - [PLEASE READ] I found that chocolate chips didn't melt the best, but that was PERFECT for this as it stuck to the candy canes really, really well. The almond bark I used melted amazingly, but because of that it kept wanting to slide right off the cane. I would suggest melting regular and white chocolate chips for this as it seemed pretty goopy to me which made it the perfect consistency for coating the canes.

Toppings and my opinion on them:

• Using brown chocolate to drizzle over the white chocolate and vice versa looks good.
• Jet Puffed Mallow Bits - I've been wanting to buy these forever and never had a reason, this was a great reason to buy them and try them out
• Candy Cane (peppermint candy) bits - candy canes are fragile, so some will inevitably break while you are unwrapping them for this project, save the small broken bits and smash them up to use for decorating the candy canes.
• Red, light green, and dark green sprinkles - totally cute. Really any red, green, and white sprinkles that are not transparent.
• Chocolate bar shavings could look cute against a white chocolate coated cane. I forgot to try this when I made these.
• I didn't get to try it, but if you use white chocolate chips or almond bark, you can also dye it red or green with food coloring for even more decorating options (coating the candy canes or drizzling for decoration).
• I DO NOT SUGGEST USING red, white and green sugary crystals, they became "lost" in the chocolate and didn't stand out much at all, you can see this in the step on decorating.

Supplies:

• Microwavable containers or double boiler or chocolate melting pot or really whatever supplies you like to use to melt your chocolate.
• Spoons - for stirring your chocolate and coating your canes
• Wax Paper or some kind of contraption to let the canes dry on - I put a cake pan on top of a metal mixer cup so I could hang the candy canes and wouldn't have to lay them flat - check out the last image to see my contraption
• Plates - helpful for catching sprinkles while decorating the canes
• Knife - if you want to take off just some of the plastic from the cane - next step will go into this.