My kids love those red swirly peppermint candies that I use for Peppermint Bark every Christmas. What I don't love is the choking hazard they present. Enter my solution. Melt them together to form a lollipop sweet treat! These Peppermint Candy Lollipops are so simple and easy to make and the perfect addition to the Winter Holidays. You can even enlist your child's help! A bunch would make great teacher, neighbor and friend gifts or the perfect stirrer for that cup of hot cocoa or mocha coffee. Yum!

Items You'll Need:

• 1 Package Hard Circle-Shaped Peppermint Candies
• Parchment Paper (available in he baking aisle)
• 1 package short lollipop sticks (available at Michael's Crafts and Wal-mart)
• baking sheet
• and a conventional oven

Directions:

• Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper
• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees
• Unwrap several peppermint candies from their plastic packaging
• Lay out peppermint candies on covered baking sheet
• Only bake 3-4 at a time! Otherwise they will harden before you can add the stick
• Bake for 10-12 minutes in the oven* bake until candy is slightly melted/pools a little
• Pull from oven and immediately push a lollipop stick into one end of the candies
• Allow to set for 1-2 minutes.