handmade holiday goodies: food edition

i didn't so much new with food as gifts this year. i made my holiday granola again in the crock-pot (twice) gosh i love this recipe!

can you tell where i do a lot of shopping? 

then at the last minute i spotted this little gem of a recipe! so at the store i decided that using baking chocolate chips instead of the baking chocolate bars would be the same thing..... wrong! the dark chocolate didn't seem to be effected but the white just wasn't melting correctly. so this was our first batch....

right away i knew something was wrong so i headed back out to the store to try again. this time with the real stuff.... and followed the directions WORD FOR WORD. 

looks much better, and yes it tasted much better too! 

so we set some out for our Christmas day guests to enjoy and had some left over for gifts. i will definitely be doing this again next year! yum!