White Chocolate Candy Cane Sugar Cookies

There's just enough time before Christmas to make one more batch of cookies, so here's a recipe for some simple and yummy white chocolate sugar cookies.

Finished product:

Ingredients:

1. 1 candy cane
2. 3 cubes white chocolate candy coating 
3. 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
4. About 20 sugar cookies

Other stuff:

1. Ingredients needed for preferred sugar cookie recipe 
2. A frosting spatula

1.

Take the candy cane and crush it until it's about the size of normal sprinkles.

2.

Melt the candy coating in a double boiler on low heat.

Once the coating is melted, add the vanilla extract and stir thoroughly until combined.

3.

After baking the sugar cookies, let them cool and spread the coating on with a frosting spatula.

Add some candy cane sprinkles and set them aside to cool for about and hour.

 All done!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you like them! If you made these, leave a picture in the comments so I can see. ;)

Peppermint Cinnamon Lip Blam

Here is a tutorial on how to make half peppermint, half cinnamon lip balm, perfect for the holiday season.

Final product:

What you will need:

1. 3 teaspoons beeswax (3 1/2 teaspoons if you live in a warm climate.) 
2. 1/4 teaspoon shea butter
3. 1/4 teaspoon coconut oil
4. 1-2 drops peppermint oil
5. 1-2 drops cinnamon oil
6. 3 drops green food dye
7. 3 drops red food dye
8. Plastic wrap
9. An empty chapstick tube
10. A knife or cheese grater

(Note: this is enough to make one tube of  chapstick.)

1.

Melt together 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 teaspoons grated beeswax, 1/8 teaspoon shea butter and 1/8 teaspoon coconut oil.

Then add 3 drops red food coloring and 1-2 drops cinnamon oil.

2.

Quickly pour the mixture into the chapstick tube, place the plastic wrap over it and tip it on its side to cool.

3.

Repeat the first step using the rest of the ingredients, green food coloring and peppermint oil. Once it's all mixed, pour it into the tube.

You're Done!

Thanks for reading! If you made this, let me know in the comments. ;)
Happy Holidays!