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For the past couple of years, I’ve bought our Halloween candy purposely looking for the boxes that have peanut butter cups in them. Then, and I don’t know how it happens (ha!), but 3 or 4 days later, all of the peanut butter cups are gone!? So, I have to go out and buy an extra bag or two of just Reese peanut butter cups on their own. You know, so we don’t run out and all.
The whole time I was making these peanut butter cup Christmas trees, I was pretty much drooling. Before you get too far though, I have to warn you that you need to have the proper sizes of peanut butter cups. I started by buying the Reese mini peanut butter cups, but they were all wrong. I set up everything to get started, and when I put them together with the Reese minis, my trees looked ridiculous. Ugh! There’s nothing worse than having to stop a project to run to the store!
So the foil wrapped peanut butter cups, are NOT Reese brand, but they worked perfectly for the size of these trees. I also picked up the super cute star sprinkles while I was on my emergency trip to the store, so at least my trip was worth it.
When I got back home, my three year old little helper was so excited to snack on the non-yellow star sprinkles that I had no use for. Then she stood around my table as I was making the little trees, and every time I looked away, she’d rush in, press her finger on as many of the tiny ball sprinkles that had fallen onto the table as she could and she’d pop them into her mouth before I turned back around. And then I’d have to add a few more back onto the table for the photos. I think she thought I didn’t see her. Little rascal!
I wish I could take the credit for coming up with this all on my own, but I got the idea from Sweet Simple Stuff. She used white candy melts, which I kind of think is a bit more work, but hers still turned out looking amazing, so you should definitely check them out.
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