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Chocolate Acorns 1 cup sugar 2 cups almonds 1/3 cup water Chocolate shot or grated sweet chocolate Put almonds in boiling water, and let boil gently two minutes; drain, plunge in cold water, again drain, rub off the skins, and dry between towels. Boil sugar and water to 290 degrees F., or until it will crack when tried in cold water. Set saucepan in large pan of boiling water. Dip one end of almond into syrup, then dip into chocolate shot which will adhere to syrup on almond, and give it the appearance of an acorn in its cup. If syrup becomes too sugary while it is being used, add a little water, and bring to boiling point again. Chocolate shot may be obtained at large grocery stores. It is composed of tiny pieces of sweet chocolate.

A Candy Bouquet Gumdrops Cardboard Sugar syrup Fine wire Lace paper doily Green tissue paper Silver foil This favor is to be in the shape of a small, old-fashioned bouquet. Make first a rule of gumdrops, coloring different portions of the mixture green, pink, red, yellow, or lavender. Shape the gumdrops in cornstarch like very small cones. Fasten a small lace paper doily to a three-inch disk of cardboard. To the back of the cardboard attach fine wires wound with green tissue paper and silver foil to imitate the stems. On the doily arrange leaves of green gumdrop mixture or mint jelly, and flowers of other colored gumdrops, fastening them in place with sugar syrup. Use as a favor at a luncheon or evening party. Fig Favors Figs Almonds Raisins Melted chocolate Marshmallows Toothpicks or fine wire With the above materials a great variety of attractive figures can be fashioned with a little ingenuity, and used as favors, or to hold a place card. Figs that come in bags, baskets, or glass jars should be provided, not the pressed figs.

Almonds may be blanched, although it is not necessary. The materials are fastened together with toothpicks or wire, and are sometimes attached to cards, as a base, that they may stand upright.

An automobile can be fashioned with two or three figs for the body and back of the car, four marshmallows for wheels, a raisin on the end of a toothpick for steering wheel, and a man sitting in the car.

A man may be made with a fig for the body, raisins on toothpicks or wire for arms and legs, almonds for hands and feet, a marshmallow with features of melted chocolate for the head, and a fig with stem standing up on top for the cap.

An owl may have a body of one fig, head of another, bits of marshmallow for eyes and nose, and almonds for ears.

Popcorn Figures Popped corn Melted chocolate 1/2 cup sugar Chocolate peppermints 1/4 cup water Chocolate creams Marshmallows Cook sugar and water until it cracks when tried in cold water. Dip kernels of popped corn, one at a time, in syrup, and put them together to make a body, arms, and legs of a boy or girl doll.

Use a marshmallow for the head, putting on the features with melted chocolate. Attach a chocolate cream to a chocolate peppermint to make a hat, and fasten it to the figure with more syrup.

Different features and attitudes will give a great variety of members for the popcorn family.

Candy Dolls Out of a double sheet of white tarlatan cut the figure of a boy or girl doll with a head a little larger than a large peppermint, and the rest of the body proportioned accordingly. Sew all the edges together except the head, which is left open until the bag is filled. Drop first into the bag tiny pink lozenges for toes and fingers, then large molasses peppermint balls for hands and feet. Use stick candy for arms and legs, fill the body with ribbon Christmas candy, use molasses peppermint balls for the neck, and for the head, a large flat round peppermint on which the features have been painted with color paste, and the hair and eyebrows with chocolate frosting.