Partridge in a Chocolate Caramel Covered Pear

Welcome to our Bloggers Best 12 Days of Christmas series! We’ve invited some of our favorite bloggers to share gift ideas for the 12 Days of Christmas.

To kick it off is our cute friend Leigh Anne from yourhomebasedmom.com.

Hi! I’m Leigh Anne from Your Homebased Mom and I am so excited to be a part of this fun Twelve Days of Christmas series here at The Crafting Chicks! I love that song and I love the idea of creating a fun gift for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas. I was lucky enough to get day one – on the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me…..A Partridge in a Chocolate Caramel Covered Pear (tree)!

I really do know the right words to the song but today I’ve got some pretty and delicious chocolate caramel covered pears for you. Perfect for the first day of Christmas!

Don’t be intimidated by the process. It’s really quite easy. If you’d like a more detailed tutorial please check out my Caramel Apple tutorial over on my blog, Your Homebased Mom. I’ve got a couple of tricks for making caramel pears or apples!

I like to use Pete’s Caramel. It is delicious and so much easier than making your own or unwrapping all those little caramel squares and it tastes better too. You can buy it at local cake decorating stores, Cash & Carry or on line at Amazon.

I dipped about 6-8 pears in 1/4 of the 5 lb. box. Just melt the caramel in the microwave. The other trick I use is to make sure my pears are cold. One of the biggest problems people have with caramel apples or pears is the caramel sliding off. If your fruit is cold the caramel starts to set up right away and stays on the fruit. You will get a little puddling at the bottom but that is o.k. – more caramel to enjoy!

You can always leave your caramel covered pears just like this – pretty & delicious – but I like to dip mine in chocolate. You can use chocolate chips or Wilton Melts. Just melt the chocolate in the microwave and if it is a little too thick, thin it with vegetable oil. I like to leave some of the caramel showing on the top of the chocolate.

I used mini chocolate chips, sprinkles and chopped nuts to sprinkle on the chocolate.

Then just let them set up and you are ready to go.

If you are giving them as a gift as part of the Twelve Days of Christmas I cut some little birds out of a grocery bag using my Cricut Explore (the bird pattern can be purchased in their Design Center).

I just tied some string around the stem and glued the bird to the string.

I’m Leigh Anne and food, family and friends are three of my favorite things. I am the mother of four young adults, a new mother in law and am still trying to adjust to life as an empty nester along with my husband of over 30 years. I love throwing parties, burying my head in a book and digging in the dirt in my garden. I believe that life is beautiful and it is up to us to find and create that beauty. I love sharing my journey to finding the pretty and delicious in life over at Your Homebased Mom.

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