I see these candy cane hearts all over the web and in stores. Left with some extra candy canes after Christmas I thought I would give it a try!
All you need are candy canes (I used mini ones) and lollipop sticks.
Place candy canes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Remember to leave enough room for the sticks.
Bake at 300 degrees for ABOUT 5 minutes. All ovens are different so watch closely until you decide the right time for your oven. Bake until you just see the candy cane melt.
Place a stick in the candy canes.
Pinch candy canes around the stick. The candy canes and pan will be hot so be very careful!
Once completely cool you can wrap them up and you have cute treats!
I think they also make really great cupcake toppers. I had to break about 1/2" off the stick to make it fit into the cupcake.
Last year someone showed me solid hearts they were making. I can't find where I saved it anywhere! If it was you please e-mail me and I will link to you!
Be sure to check out how Make and Takes shows you how to spell LOVE out of melted candy canes!
More ideas for Valentine's Day Crafts, activities, cards and decorations can be found here.
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Love love love these! I bet they smell good too!
I am so glad I found your blog! You have the greatest ideas!
Great idea! I had not seen these before. What a great treat for the kids to take to school!
VERY clever ; )-love it!
Wow, those are great! What a great way to use up some leftover candy canes!!
I love your blog – we are starting the crayon shaving hearts next week (I’m searching through drawers and looking under sofas for crayons!! LOL!). And I placed an order for candy making supplies to make the heart lollipop pencil toppers. People think I’m so Martha – LOL!! I just point them to your blog!
Thanks for all your work – it’s awesome!
This is exactly what I was looking for – you ROCK! I have lots of left over candy canes from a Girl Scout Christmas craft we made for our local retirement community. Now the girls can make these to hand out to their friends on Valentine’s Day. I love your blog – I am soooooo glad I found it!!!
Adorable and creative! thank you
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I am following your blog for a week or so, and you are great. I am pretty bad on “creating” new things, so i always looking for fun things to do with my 2 girls and the candy canes are perfect for Valentines, thanks a bunch
Wow, what a great way to use these leftover candy canes!! Thanks SO much for sharing this creative idea, I really appreciate it!
These are really cute. My 7yo son wants to make them right now!
Thanks for the great idea I wish I had the little candy canes left. I only have the large ones and I think that would be to large to use. Thanks for the great ideas you come up with, Keep them coming.
Thanks
What a great way to use up the left overs. LOVE IT.
Very cool! i have never seen this before! Nice!
Heather
I love love love this. Will have to try some!
What a great idea! My daughter will enjoy handing them out to her friends on Valentine’s Day.
That’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!½ I never knew this was possible – but now I know I am DEFINITELY making me some!
TFS!
Those are so cute I to have left over candy canes and this will make for a great treat in my Valentine’s basket.
shean valentine
Oooh, I need to find some mini candy canes now! So cute!
What an adorable Valentine’s gift! And so easy too. Thanks for all the great ideas!
They are so cute, shame I haven’t got any candy canes left, will make a mental note for next year!!
I love these! I can actually see myself making them for the kids to take to school (as opposed to drooling over the project knowing I will never make them because I’m not all that crafty).
Those are brilliant! I actually have a ton of candy canes left over and had no idea what I was going to do with them.
what a great idea! I just found your website and am loving all the cute ideas!
Tabitha
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these are so cute – what a great idea! I’m loving your site and have definitely added it to my favorites!
Lovely! And so easy! Thanks for sharing.
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I love it! What a great idea! Thanks:)
What a great idea! I have 2 boxes of candy canes left.
These are absolutely adorable! What a great idea, and so easy too!
What a great idea. I have a couple boxes of mini candy canes in my pantry from peppermint/chocolate cupcakes at Christmas time.
Thanks for the “recipe.” I’m going to try it out.
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I just bought 2 boxes of mini candy canes ( $.62 a box…I just can’t pass up a bargin!!!!!) Now I can use them for my kids Valentine’s Day party!!! Love it!!!!
What a cute idea!
Oh how cute, but where do you find mini candy canes now that Christmas is over? I had an entire box but oldest son has managed to eat them all
( My youngest would love to help make these and they’d be great for my Girl Scout troop too!
You have the best ideas ever. I’m always going on my sister’s site to get to yours, so now I need to follow you myself. I wish I had some mini candy canes now….my boys would love these!!!
What a great idea. I’m not kidding: Just yesterday I found a stash of mini candy canes from Christmas and thought, “What can I do to get rid of all these candy canes?”
Now I’ve got my answer. Thanks for sharing!
this is 2cleve and I am thrilled finding a way to connect them.
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These are SO cute! I know my kids will love to make these (with help). I agree… these will be perfect for school Valentines! Thanks for sharing the how to
I LOVE your blog!!
Cute!
I was just looking at our box of leftover mini-candy canes. This will be a fun project to give to my daughter’s pre-school classmates.
Thanks for such fun ideas that any one can do!
OMG SO ADORABLE!!!!
One question… what did you use to wrap the lollipops with? We got the rest of the stuff. Thanks for the pictures, it made finding the items easy! My daughter even picked the ribbon. We are just lacking the wrap.
You’re my hero!
Adorable! I’ve never thought of doing this with leftover candy canes. Great idea!
Kimba
Super cute!
These are adorable! What a great use for all my leftover candy canes. Thanks for the cute idea!
I LOVE this idea. I am going to have my daughter help make these for her Valentine’s Day party!!! How fun. I am also going to make one to go with my love story book that I just made for my husband. A nice little finishing touch
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Oh my gosh, insanely cute! Who would have thought!
i am in love! i was going to give these a shot this week…and now, i don’t have ot experiment! adorable!!! i have peppermint love!
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