Thanksgiving Favors…Adorable Candy Corn-ucopia’s

You know I love making favors for every celebration, and Thanksgiving is an especially endearing time to send your guests and family home with a token of the special day you’ve spent together. These “Candy Corn-ucopia’s” are perfect favors for Thanksgiving, but they could also be used as unique place cards on your Thanksgiving table with the names or initials of your guests written on the tag of each candy corn-ucopia…and just think how adorable these would look placed around the “kids table!”

These candy corn-ucopia’s are easy and fun to make…the only hard part for me was writing out all the instructions! Follow each of the steps below…how to create the cornucopia…the simple recipe for the snack mix…then your ready to put them together!

Ingredients needed to make waffle cone cornucopia’s:

Directions for Making Candy Coated Cornucopias:

1. Melt candy melts (*chocolate chips, or almond bark can be used) according to the directions on the package.
2. To cover and coat the outside rim of the waffle ice cream cone with the melted *candy, dip the mouth of the cone into the melted *candy melts
3. Using a small spatula or dinner knife, coat the inside and outside of the waffle cone with melted *candy melts (spread the melted candy unevenly, so it looks like it dripped down the cone)
4. Sprinkle colored sugars/sprinkles on the melted candy coating
5. Lay each cone on wax or parchment paper until the candy hardens
6. Repeat procedure until all the ice cream cones are coated and covered with melted candy and sprinkles

Next step…while the waffle cones are drying, make this easy snack mix for filling the cornucopias.

Directions for Snack Mix

1. Add equal measurements of the ingredients shown in the picture above (I used 2 cups of each ingredient)
2. Stir well to combine

By the way, the candy corn-ucopia and the snack mix taste so good together. In the “taste test” that Richard and I conducted, we ate our snack mix as well as the cornucopia holder. The cornucopias made out of the waffle cones looked so cute, we were planning on eating only our snack mix , but after just a nibble on the sweet waffle cone cornucopia, we ate those as well! It was delicious and added just the right crispiness and flavor, after our sweet and salty snack mix.

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

~  Eleanor Roosevelt

Items Needed to Add “Cuteness” to your Candy Corn-ucopia’s:

1. Clear, tall, cellophane treat bags (I used Wilton Clear Bags/150 count 9.5 inches tall, and bought them at WalMart for $3.76) but Wilton clear bags, or any other clear, cellophane bags are available at any craft store
2. Jute…twine, string, raffia, ribbon, etc. A silver wired band comes with the treat bags that could also be used for tying your treat bags
3. Scissors
4. Ruler
5. Pencil
6. colored paper, bright pages from magazines, or cardstock to make paper tags
7. craft stamps and ink pad (if you have them)
8. Use a black marker or stick on letters to put names or initials on tags. Use your imagination and use other stickers…turkeys, cornucopia, autumn leaves, or pilgrim hats-even buttons make cute adornments for decorating your tags
9. Hole punch, or something else that is sharp enough to punch a hole in the top of the paper tags

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer."

~  Mary Angelou

3rd and last step…Assembling Candy Corn-ucopia’s

1. After the candy and sugars on the cornucopia’s have hardened, place each waffle cone in a clear, favor bag.
2. After placing the candied waffle cone in the clear treat bag, fill each cone with snack mix, “spilling” some inside the bottom of the bag for added appeal and visual effect.
3. Tie top of clear bag with jute, *or whatever you choose to close your treat bag with, into a simple knot.
4. Using a pencil and ruler, make square or rectangular tags on colored paper, magazine pages, or cardstock and cut them out. (you can use paper punches if you have them)
5. If you use magazine pages, or thin colored paper instead of cardstock, back tags with another piece of paper for reinforcement and rigidity.
6. Decorate your tags using stamps, stickers, buttons, etc, If you are making the candy corn-ucopias to use as place cards, use a black marker, sticker letters, or alphabet block stamps to personalize each tag with the guest names or initials.
7. Punch a hole at the top of the tag and insert the tag/tags (I used 2 tags in different colors of cardstock on each candy corn-ucopia) onto the jute* slipping the tag up the jute* until it reaches the simple knot holding the bag closed.
8. Tie jute* into a shoe-string bow so the tag dangles from the bow

All done! The candy corn-ucopias look so cute all “gathered together” in a basket, or wooden bowl! Place them near the front door so you’ll be sure to remember to give them to your guests when they leave…or if they were used on your tablescape as place cards, remind everyone to take their’s, when they leave!

(Click here) to see another simple Thanksgiving favor

"I come before You today
And there's just one thing that I want to say
Thank You Lord
Thank You Lord
For all You've given to me 
For all the blessings I can not see...
With a grateful heart
With a song of praise
With an outstretched arm
I will bless Your name
Thank You Lord..."

~  from the song "Thank You Lord" by Don Moen 

My prayer and hope is that you all have a wonderful and blessed day of thanks giving…on Thanksgiving! ❤

From my cottage to yours ~ Trenda

“This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118:24

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