Before you think, eww, aren’t those candy bars way too old for use? Calm down, Karen. I’m just talking about the ones that have a long shelf life and have clearly NOT expired 🙂 Safety first, guys.

On to the sweet stuff (and why you’re here)! So if your kids have special training in being Halloween candy ninjas, then you probably have a whole treasure cove worth of candy still sitting at home. We have so much I have started donating it to random people. My husbands co-workers, Christmas goodie bags, whoever knocks on my door at this point. It just needs to leave our house!

Also, big mom fail here but I didn’t stock up on hot cocoa mix for this Christmas break! When my daughter asked me for hot chocolate today, I was like “um… yeah, give me a sec”. That’s when I spotted old jack

I knew if I just melted a few chocolate bars, we were in business! As I was sifting through the candy I thought, this could very well be a VERY happy accident. I looked at the snickers bars and knew this was going to be one yummy hot cocoa experiment.

So… drumroll, the candy choices we went with