Peppermint Hot Chocolate Mix is extremely easy to make when you need a few inexpensive homemade Christmas gifts to give to a teacher or a few friends. It takes only about 15 minutes to mix together.
– Prepare the Funfetti Cake & Cupcake mix as directed on the package adding the ½ teaspoon to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
– Fill cupcake papers ¾ full.
SIFT
Sift all of the powdered ingredients together in a very large bowl. After you have all the dry ingredients sifted stir with a large wooden spoon to evenly combine the dry ingredients together.
Take the peppermint sticks or candy canes and place them in a large ziplock bag. Use a rolling pin to crush the peppermint sticks into small pieces. Divide the cocoa mix into two-gallon size ziplock bags.
To one bag add the crushed peppermint sticks. Shake the bag so the crushed peppermint candy is mixed in with the cocoa mix. Leave the second bag of cocoa mix plain or add some mini marshmallows and shake up the bag to mix.
This will give you different flavors cocoa mix to make your gifts with if you want. You will need one cup of hot cocoa mix for each Hot Cocoa Mix in a Mug Christmas gift.