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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Cupid Came Prepared!

I rarely get inspired creatively these days. Maybe it's permanent chemo brain, or maybe it's the ADD or Mommy Brain. Whatever the cause, it's a truth I live with. As a former artist sometimes it's hard to deal with. I used my artistry as a permanent descriptive. I WAS an artist. That's who I was.

We all change as we grow, though. I've morphed my artistry into a different like, by doing my own make-up in creative ways, and keeping my passion for photography alive. Sometimes though... sometimes I get tiny bursts of inspiration. Usually spurred on or helped by the best friend. She's good like that. :)


I signed up to send in a snack for my littlest's Kindergarten Valentine's Day party (I'm a room parent so I usually let the other parents volunteer in these areas.) We don't do birthday celebrations with treats at school anymore so we all figure it's ok to indulge on the party days, and there's always fresh fruit served, so we know they have a healthy option!

Well inspiration struck and I came up with a plan! Pinterest was giving me nothing that I wanted to do. Strawberries are always sent in, every party before this one had strawberries as the snack in some form or another. Since one of the kids doesn't like strawberries I wanted to avoid those this time since he seems to always have to turn down the treats during their parties.

So I came up with pretzels dipped in chocolate. But how to make them valentine's related? Heart sprinkles? Meh. So we (the aforementioned bestie and I) thought about it and came up with Cupid's Arrows! GENIUS, and easy - perfect! So without further ado, here's how I did them!





First, obviously you need to gather your supplies!
  • Pretzel Sticks
  • White Melting Chocolate
  • Conversation Hearts
  • Parchment Paper
  • A large cookie sheet or table space - just somewhere to let them dry
  • A measuring cup or other microwavable dish to melt the chocolate in (Make sure it's deep enough to dip the pretzels into!)
  • Optional red food dye
  • And a spoon for stirring the chocolate as it melts



The first step is to melt the chocolate! Generally, you take the pieces from their container, put them in the microwave-safe container and pop them in the micro for 30 second increments, stirring between, until melted thoroughly. Check your specific package for directions as they may be different from mine.

As the chocolate was melting, I decided to lay out a bunch of the conversation hearts along the top of the parchment-covered cookie sheet to make it easier for me. 

Once you have the chocolate melted you just start dipping pretzels! Get a generous amount of chocolate on them before laying them out. Once you cover the pretzel stick in chocolate, lay them out on the sheet and shove a conversation heart inverted into the chocolate-end of the pretzel. 

If you want to add some extra spunk you can add a little red food dye to the chocolate to make it pink, and then graduate to red after a while also! I did a mix of all three but it's not necessary - just make sure you do white then pink then red, you can't go backwards in color!

Let them all dry and package them up in a air-tight container!


I hope you enjoy the post and making these if you decide to! I did, and it was so easy my littlest (who's 5) was able to help a ton, doing most of it himself!