Chow Mein Noodle Candy

Ingredients:
1 (12-ounce) package of chocolate chips
1 (12-ounce) package of butterscotch chips
1 cup salted nuts
2 (3 ounce) cans Chow Mein noodles

Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in top of double-boiler until creamy. Mix nuts and chow mein noodles in large bowl. Add to candy mixture. Stir carefully (noodles can break) until all are coated. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper covered surface. Cool until hard.

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Jodi modifications:
2 (12 ounce) packages of chocolate chips
2 (12 ounce) packages of butterscotch chips
1 can of salted mixed nuts + a sprinkling of extra salt
1 12-ounce bag of Chow Mein noodles

Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in crock pot set on “low.” Stir every few minutes. It doesn’t take that long. Mix in the nuts and stir well. Add the chow mein noodles and stir carefully until all are dark with the chocolate. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper covering the dining room table. Cool until hard. This makes approximately 80 cookies.

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These are my all-time favorite Christmas cookie. I love the Cathedral Windows because they are beautiful. But these I could practically eat by the fistful when I was the most pregnant with my first son... and for years afterwards! These may not look like much on the plate, but once you pop one in your mouth, you're hooked for life & want to eat the whole batch.

The nuts are, of course, optional, but I like the flavor & texture they add. You can use any nuts that you like. I tend to cut them with my Santuko knife - only because I don't have a nut chopper. I like having partial nuts as well as the nut shavings mixed into the chocolate. Yummmmeeee!!!