Twisted Shamrocks!

I'm a reflective thinker. Not good on my feet. About a half-hour or so before a deadline is when my best ideas start pouring in. Reflective thinker. NOT procrastinator. (Remember that one! Feel free to use it at will. No charge.)

So, I might be starting to get a feel for the type of thing I want to feature on this blog. And for starters, here's a little St. Patrick's Day gift--Twisted Shamrocks. (Yes, a blatant borrow of the ever-popular pretzel and Kisses treat! But since I've admitted it in parentheses, maybe no one will notice.) And you can make a megazillion of them as long as you remember not to drop the pretzel bag on your tile floor. Or eat all the Kisses beforehand. You know the drill--

Baking sheet, foil or parchment paper, oven, a bag of pretzel sticks, a bag of mini pretzels, a bag (or so) of Hershey's Kisses, a large bag of M&Ms.

Heat oven to 200 degrees.

Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper.

Assemble 3 pretzels like so:

Ack, who hacked my account and posted that blurry pic?!!

Anyway, place a Hershey's Kiss on top of the pretzels, in the middle, like so:

Repeat until you run out of room (or Kisses).

Carefully put baking sheet in oven so pretzels don't slide out of alignment.

Remove after 4 minutes.

Press the end of a pretzel stick into the center of the softened Kiss for the stem. If the pretzels slide out of place, gently push them back toward the center. Use another pretzel stick to push them so your fingers don't get hot.

Press an M&M over the end of the pretzel stick--you want the Kiss to moosh around the pretzels, cementing them together.

Let harden.
Wrap up in a goodie bag. My store was out of the bags, so I cut the zip off a ziplock bag.
Print tags, tie, and present!

Download "So Lucky to have you as a friend" tags by clicking on the image. Click on the resulting image to enlarge it, then right-click it to save to your computer.

And no, I actually didn't forget half the page. It's my brilliant idea for you to fold the paper so you only have to cut the tag out half as much. Yup, I even re-did it so it could be that way. "Best-ideas-right-before-the-deadline" routine. Again. But hey, it's still St. Patrick's Day, so all's well that ends well.

Enjoy your visit!


Susan