These Strawberry Christmas Lights are a fun Christmas party dessert for your next holiday gathering!
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I was always a white Christmas light kind of girl growing up, but when I married Roger his parents gifted us a bunch of ornaments and lights, many of which had hung on both his parent’s and his grandparent’s Christmas trees over the last ~60 years.
These included a Christmas ornament that his grandparents had on their first Christmas tree the year they were married in the early 50s and a Christmas tree topper that his parents used on their Christmas tree their first year of marriage.
The box of special Christmas treasures also included colorful Christmas tree lights.
At first, I wasn’t sure if I wanted them on our tree, white lights had always been my plan.
But when we plugged them in back at home, they were the most gorgeous colorful lights I had ever seen.
Years of use had caused the colorful bulbs to fade and be scratched off in a few areas, making the lights glow with a vintage look that matched our heirloom ornaments.
I instantly fell in love with them.
And while I used more traditional colors for these Strawberry Christmas Lights, I can’t wait to hang our vintage-looking lights on our real Christmas tree very soon.
ps. If you can’t find strawberries where you live you can try it with grapes (I haven’t tried it with grapes, but if you do it I’d love to hear your results.)
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Strawberry Christmas Lights
These Strawberry Christmas Lights are a fun Christmas party dessert for your next holiday gathering!
Ingredients
Instructions
- First, wash and pat dry the strawberries. Then remove the the stem/leaves of the strawberries.
- Melt the red candy melts according to the packaging instructions.*(3)
- Then place a strawberry on a skewer.
- Dip the strawberry in the melted candy melts, twisting it to fully coat it, and shaking off any excess.
- Sprinkle the candy-coated strawberry with sugar sprinkles and place it, skewer down, in a cup to dry.
- Repeat steps 3-5 to create as many red strawberry Christmas lights as you’d like.
- Then repeat steps 2-6 with each remaining color (blue, green, and yellow).
- Once the candy melts have hardened on the strawberries, remove all of the skewers from the strawberries and place the strawberries on a piece of parchment paper.
- Carefully heat the back of a metal spoon over your stove (don’t place it/leave it on the stove, just hold it above it to get warm), and then rub it on the base of a Rolo to slightly melt the chocolate, then place the Rolo’s melted base on the top of the strawberry.
- Hold firm until the chocolate has hardened, 5-10 seconds.
- Repeat steps 9-10 on all of your colorful strawberries.
- Draw a squiggle with the green icing on a platter and place the Strawberry Christmas Lights along the green squiggle.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- Alternatively, you can use white chocolate and dye-free food coloring that has no artificial colors (click here for my favorite go-to dye-free food coloring)
- The candy melts I used are no longer available. I have linked similar alternatives.
- Once the candy began to melt, I added some coconut oil to make it thinner and easier to work with.
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