Impress Your Guests with Truffles Dressed Up as Santa and His Reindeer

Santa and Reindeer Truffles
Santa and Reindeer Truffles

Start with store-bought truffles to makean easy, giftable Christmastreatfor friends, family, or holiday visitors. Save one for Santa; we hear he likes truffles too, and certainly deserves one all to himself.

INGREDIENTS
24 truffles (such as Ferrero Rocher or Lindt)
2 cups light cocoa candy melts, melted
3/4 cup pink candy melts, melted
1/2 cup white candy melts, melted 3 red fruit slices, halved crosswise
1 cup mini marshmallows, halved crosswise
17 brown and 4 red M&M's Minis
48 mini chocolate chips, tips removed
36 mini pretzel twists


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DIRECTIONS

1. Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Dip 18 truffles in melted light cocoa candy melts; allow excess to drip off. Transfer to baking sheet. Spoon remaining melted light cocoa candy melts into a ziplock bag; seal bag
2. Dip remaining 6 truffles in melted pink candy melts; allow excess to drip off. Transfer to baking sheet. Refrigerate until set, about 5 minutes

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3. Spoon melted white candy melts into a ziplock bag; seal bag. Snip very small corners from the ziplock bags that contain white and light cocoa candy melts. Pipe white candy onto the pink-coated truffles; attach half a red fruit slice to each as a hat. Attach marshmallows as the trim on each hat and as the beard and mustache. Cut 3 red M&M's Minis in half and attach 1 to each truffle as a nose. Attach the mini chocolate chips for the eyes.
4. Pipe small dots of light cocoa candy melts on chocolate-coated truffles; on top of the melted dots, affix pretzel twists as antlers. Add brown and remaining red M&M's Minis as noses. Pipe small bits of white candy and attach mini chocolate chips as eyes. Refrigerate truffles until set, about 5 minutes.

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