Snowy Chocolate Pinecones

Made with dry cereal and a peanut butter mixture, it’s part-healthy, part-sweet, and 100% fun. It’s a great edible craft for the kids to make this winter when the snow arrives and cabin fever sets in. No baking required—just mix and assemble.

3 cups Chex Chocolate cereal or comparable (I used Chocolate Fiber One cereal)
6 pretzel sticks (I used the thicker dipping sticks)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread)
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 cup powdered sugar

• Mix the peanut butter, Nutella, butter, and powdered sugar in a bowl.
• Take a pretzel stick and mold some of the peanut butter mixture around it, forming a slight cone shape.
• Holding it steady by using the tip of the pretzel as a handle, start inserting pieces of cereal into the peanut butter mixture in a symmetrical pattern around the stick. 
• Add more cereal pieces, staggering them as you move upward, until you get near the top.
• Cut several cereal pieces into triangles and add those to the top (most pinecone scales get smaller toward the end.)
• If your pinecone is getting too tall, cut off the top of the pretzel and add a dollop of peanut butter mixture to cover it. 
• Insert a few more triangle pieces of cereal into the top of the pinecone.
• For a “snowy” effect, dust the pinecone with powdered sugar.

Recipe and tutorial: Handmade by Charlotte