Recipe Sunday | Peppermint Brittle

This is the easiest thing I've ever made in my life.

It has less ingredients than a PB&J (if you count milk and the sticky mouth syndrome as essential ingredients of a PB&J like I do). Its easier than Mac 'n Cheese, they're cuter than my kitty Gracie and sweeter than the sale rack at Anthropologie. In other words, this stuff is goo-oo-00d.

Jeff and I were in a pinch this last week when we had to bring something tasty and cute to a Christmas get-together, so a quick search on AllRecipes.com gave us this delightful little gem. Not only is this a cute item for the holiday season, but it goes perfect with a hot chocolate or holiday mocha!

Note to readers: I always post the entire recipe at the bottom of these posts, so if you just need the nitty-gritty details, skip to the bottom. Have fun!

You need three things and three thing only for this recipe: milk chocolate, white chocolate, and peppermint. We picked up two bags of milk chocolate Nestle morsels...

...and two bags of white chocolate Nestle morsels. Sidebar: When we were in the grocery store, I entertained myself with "Nezlay Tollhouzah." Any Friends fans out there? Anybody? Eh, eh?

I've had a ton of candy canes sitting around the house from various events, so this was the perfect excuse to make them useful. You'll need about 15 big candy canes or 30 small ones.

First, cover a jelly roll pan with some wax paper.

Then slowly melt the milk chocolate in the microwave at half power. Its really important to melt it slowly or else bad things will happen. Like El Nino. Or frizzy hair. So go slow to avoid these catastrophic events.

Then spread the milk chocolate across the jelly roll pan nice and even.

Slip the pan into the fridge and let it harden for about an hour. In the meantime crunch up your candy canes with a rolling pin and a Ziploc bag.

We had to double the Ziploc because the sharp edges of the candy canes poked holes in the bag, so beware!

While the first layer is hardening, start slowly heating up the white chocolate. You have to be even more careful with white chocolate because it has a tendency to burn easily. The first layer should be completely solid when you pull it out.

Then you'll mix the peppermint in with the white chocolate. What you should do here is put the candy canes through a metal strainer to separate out the big pieces to put on top at the very end, but we don't have one. So we dumped everything in together.

Spread out the second layer as even as you can.

Try to get in all the corners!

Put the whole thing in the fridge for as long as you want and then pull it out and break it up into chunks. The layers do come apart, so you will have to be a little careful. This makes a good amount, so it will last you for a while. Enjoy!