We made the recipe for Christmas Advent Day 8 – Loretta’s Bon Bons, but we couldn’t use nuts and we couldn’t use sweetened condensed milk so we used coconut milk and water.  We added more shredded coconut, more sugar, Koala Crispys, GF whole oats, GF ground oats and even some corn starch. They were just a little watery so I put them in the fridge and in the freezer.

They turned out ok. 

They are WAY sweet and still a little goopy.  The kids loved them.  What’s not to love, they’re dipped in chocolate! 

Oh, and we didn’t use the paraffin either, food quality or not, I’m sure chemical wax stuff doesn’t fly in our house. Melted gfcf chocolate chips worked just fine.

Some of them turned out looking decent too, but I just could bring myself to take a picture. In fact I still have the bowl of goopy mixture in the fridge and some balls of goop in the freezer waiting to be dipped in chocolate… I’m waiting to see how I feel about them tomorrow.

We also lit a fire in the fireplace tonight and played Go Fish as a family.  It was fun, the first time we’ve had the whole family play.  

We’ll see if we have any frightened middle children tonight, we watched A Christmas Carol musical today.  We are reading the book and decided to find a not too scary version to watch.  We wanted Mickey, but he wasn’t available so we found a different one.  It was still scary, but the kids liked how some of it was word for word what we had read that morning.