Comments on: Candy Canes, Crackers & Ornaments

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:00:42 +0000

Thanks for those links, stef!

By: stef

stef — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:15:01 +0000

notmartha recently featured a how-to on these english crackers

https://www.notmartha.org/tomake/partycracker

i was researching it so i can make some with the kids, but this is just not the time of year for me to be crafty, i’m always in the kitchen!

there are supplies here:

https://www.oldenglishcrackers.com/
https://www.absolutelycrackers.com/home.html

but i lucked out and found nice ones for 50% off at Cost Plus World Market — for those of you here in the US…

By: carol

carol — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:29:38 +0000

I got great-tasting peppermint candy canes at Shopwise, made in Mexico, for P131 for 18 pieces. There were even Nickelodeon, Lifesavers & choco-peppermint ones that were more expensive.

By: fried-neurons

fried-neurons — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:02:43 +0000

I have to agree with you about the cheap candy canes from China. No flavor. All sugar. Boring.

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:08:08 +0000

I keep them at my desk boxful of them and keep replenishing the box until the last working day before Christmas. They are good taste cleanser after greasy foods.

By: atwe

atwe — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:37:28 +0000

candy canes for 75 pesos?!? wah! and i just bought four boxes to handcarry and paid too much pa. A box in Hong Kong (branded nga lang so has peppermint flavor) cost me HK$20 (PhP120.00). Geez, now I know better. So thanks for another tip, MM.

how much do the christmas crackers sell for? the cheapest here costs about PhP620 per dozen. they’re actually easy to make, but who has the time?

By: tulip

tulip — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:39:36 +0000

The chef ornament is cute! I have to agree with having candy canes and all sorts of candies stocked during Christmas time.And Marketman, I was actually inspired when you made gingerbread house for a kid early this year that I considered doing my first gingerbread village in humid Manila over the weekend for my family’s yearly adopt-a-child for Christmas project. We’ll be having bunch of kids from the streets of Mandaluyong to celebrate Christmas with and hope to cheer them up! I am actually thinking how I can possibly even make the gingerbread for the unfortunate kids of Bicol, we will be visiting them before Christmas and send them immediate help and medical teams.
Thanks to you Marketman and family for the added inspiration.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:41:42 +0000

And I thought these were exploding ones. Just the other day, my preschooler (oldest of my brood) came running to me in the store with a box of this in his hand yelling, “Nanay, can you buy me this?” I was aghast (as I vividly remember pictures and tv footages of mangled limbs during New Year’s Eve back home) and responded almost at a shriek, “absolutely not!”.

Am I glad I read this post before retiring for the night! Tomorrow, I have to make it up to the little guy. Thank you, Marketman.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:00:09 +0000

there used to be an old British lady in our church who used to make and sell these crackers for christmas. i saw a bunch in marks and spencer’s as well. i wonder how it’s made to pop? :) that’d be so much fun for the kids! :)

yuk, candycanes with no peppermint flavor? kaya pala mura lang.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:56:37 +0000

Millet, ornaments were sent to us as a present, I think they were from Williams Sonoma, after-season mark-downs from last year…