Spicy
Cocoa
The trick to this is to place the marshmallows on the
top quickly so they will melt into the hot cocoa. This is a great
tummy-warmer!
Ingredients you will need to
make 4 servings:
 1/4
cup/60 ml Watkins Baking Cocoa
- 1/3 cup/80 ml sugar
- 1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Cinnamon
- Pinch of Watkins Cloves
- Pinch of Watkins Allspice
- 1/4 cup/60 ml hot water
- 3 cups/750 ml milk
- 1 cup/250 ml miniature marshmallows
- 4 cinnamon sticks
Instructions:
- In a medium saucepan, combine the cocoa, sugar, cinnamon,
cloves, allspice, and hot water; mix it together until it is all
smooth.
- Place the saucepan on the stove-top over medium heat.
- Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook and
stir 2 minutes.
- Add milk and heat just until it is hot; do not
boil.
- Pour carefully into cups.
- Put marshmallows on top while the cocoa is still very hot so
they will melt.
- Use your cinnamon stick to stir your
cocoa.
 What
are cinnamon sticks? Where do they come
from?
Cinnamon is actually the bark of an evergreen tree that grows in Asia. During the rainy
season, the bark is stripped from the trees. When the bark
dries, it curls up into tight sticks. These are great for
stirring cocoa or for decorating, but nearly all recipes call for
ground cinnamon. The sticks are hard to grind at home, so
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Merry Reindeer Cookies
Have extra graham crackers and pretzels on hand in case they break where you don't want them to. That's okay ... the mistakes are fun to eat!
 Ingredients you will need to make 12 reindeers:
- 1 cup/250 mL powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp/30 mL whipping cream
- 1 tsp/5 mLWatkins Clear Vanilla
- 12 graham cracker squares (2-1/2 inches/6.25 cm squares)
- 24 mini or regular semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 12 small red cinnamon candies (sometimes called Cinnamon Imperials)
- 12 mini pretzels, broken in half
Instructions:
- Make the frosting in a small bowl by combining the powdered sugar, cream, and Clear Vanilla, and mixing until smooth. Set the frosting aside.
- Cut one cracker diagonally in half with a serrated knife to form a triangle.
- With a metal spatula (or butter knife), spread a small amount of frosting over one cracker half. Top with other cracker half so it still forms a triangle (as in the picture above). Spread a small amount of frosting over the top cracker.
- Place on of the cinnamon candies on the narrow peak of the triangle to make the nose. Add 2 of the pretzel halves to the larger side of the triangle to form antlers. Place 2 chocolate chips on the reindeer's face to form the eyes.
- Repeat this procedure with remaining ingredients. Let dry on a wire rack before eating.
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