Blue Monday #13

It is time for Blue Monday again. Sally at Smiling Sally hosts this blue Monday for us every week. Go and check her blog to visit others who are posting for Blue Monday.

Yesterday was the start of week 4 of the Advent season. This is the fourth verse of the hymn about lighting the four candles to watch for Messiah. My header picture has also been changed to reflect that it is now Week 4. In my church, blue is the color for the season of Advent.

I got an easy candy recipie from Lisa and she couldn't remember where she got it. Yesterday I decided to make it. It turned into a bigger project than I expected because we decided to not only give some to my fellow therapists at work, we also decided to give some to his co-workers as well. That turned into making 24 gifts for our co-workers combined. I started with mini pretzels and layed then out on the cookie sheet. Oh and oven was preheated to 200 degrees. Then we had to dig into the Hersey's kisses. See the blue on the packaging above.

We also needed M&M's. Here are a couple of blue ones and the wording on the little strips of papers is in blue!

Here I have the Hersey's kisses sitting on the pretzels. Boy that was the time-consuming part. Hubby and I did this project together. I was glad too, otherwise I would probably still be working on it and it is now past 1 am my time. At this point we put the cookie sheet in the oven for 5 mins. Remember the oven is at 200 degrees.

Then we take the cookie sheet out of the oven and press an M&M in each Hersey's kiss while it is still warm. Push down good, but carefully. Then I transfered them on to a plate with wax paper on it. See my plate has blue. It is the Blue Goose pattern that used to be available at Mervyn's. You can also see the blue M&M's too. After putting them on the plate then it went into the fridge for at least 30 minutes to firm up the soft chocolate. We were very good. We did not taste any until we figured out how many we were able to make and divy up between 24 gift packages. I finally went to the Dollar Tree in my town for the first time. That is where I found these containers and the mini pretzels. We had to stop there again on Sunday to get more of these containers when we decided to make gifts for our co-workers. Then while we were working on the project, hubby went back again to get more pretzels. What a project.

Here are the finished gifts in the containers. You can see some of the blue M&M's peeking through. We will be taking these to work, tomorrow,uh I mean today since it is now after midnight. Silly me being up so late. I also added loose M&M's, extra Hersey's Kisses and one cookie each that I also baked. The easy way, frozen cookie dough. I hope our co-workers appreciate the little gifts we put so much effort into on Sunday. Hubby and I had fun working on this project together. In between we cooked dinner and cleaned up most of the kitchen too.

Happy Blue Monday and Merry Christmas to Everyone!!