Christmas Candy Coal Favor Bag
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Legend has it that naughty kids get a lump of coal from Santa instead of a stocking full of presents. I wouldn't know about this firsthand, of course, because Santa loves me! However, I love to joke with my friends about it, so this year I came up with easy vintage-looking coal bags to give as gifts. I even figured out an easy recipe for making edible candy coal. These candy coal bags make great Christmas party favors, office gifts, or stocking stuffers.
The first thing you need to make the coal bags is our free, vintage-inspired Christmas candy coal bag printable. It includes a normal page for printing onto paper, and a mirrored/reversed page for printing onto Avery iron-on transfer sheets.
Just print the reverse page onto iron-on transfer sheets and cut them out. They're sized perfectly to fit on 5"x7" cotton or canvas drawstring bags.
Place the iron-on face down on your bag, and iron it according to package instructions.
When you lift the liner off, the image is transferred. So easy!
To create the candy coal to put inside the bags, I looked long and hard for a candy coal recipe that I liked. I couldn't find anything that looked quite right, so I started looking for other candies that I could color black. I hit the jackpot with honeycomb toffee (also called sponge toffee, cinder toffee, or hokey pokey), and made up a batch using a standard recipe, but with the addition of 1/2 teaspoon of black gel food coloring at the very beginning. I couldn't believe how much my candy looked just like coal.
With that, my candy coal bags were complete, and ready to hand out at Christmas.
Note: Honeycomb toffee will get sticky if exposed to humidity, so be sure to put it in a sealed plastic bags before putting it into your cloth bag.
3 comments so far:
This is a great idea!
Hello, How can I download the .pdf sheet?
Trell, you can click on the text link or the picture of the PDF within the tutorial above. Here's the link again for quick reference: Christmas candy coal bag printable.