Due to my intolerance to gluten, most of our holiday baking ends up being holiday candy. Sunday night, we made an old favorite and a new one:

On the right are our old favorite, peanut clusters. My family’s recipe is my favorite of all I’ve tried, and it’s soooo easy. You simply melt a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips, 6 squares of white almond bark, and a handful of butterscotch chips in a bowl in the microwave. Stir in a jar of peanuts, and drop onto waxed paper. EASY! Evan dropped them on the waxed paper all by himself, which explains the odd shape of some of them.

A new candy we tried was peppermint bark. I found this recipe on the blog of former Morrison-ite, Molly: http://bloggingmollyr.blogspot.com/ I must admit we changed it a bit. First of all, we couldn’t find regular candy canes so we used pink ones. I would recommend sticking with regular. Also, to make up for the pink candy canes we decided to crush up some mint M&M’s on top. But, it’s pretty good the way we made it, so I know it would be fabulous made the right way!