Chocolate Dipped Cinnamon Gummy Bears!

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     Often, on road trips with my grandchildren, we stop at a Maverick for gas and to pick up some snacks.  One of the favorite snacks for some of us are these cinnamon gummy bears that are coated in chocolate!  Maverick is the least expensive place that we have found them, if you can find them at all, but they still cost a bit more than I normally like to pay for a snack.  They are just so good though! 
         One day, I was thinking about chocolate cinnamon bears, randomly, because that is how my mind works, and I thought to myself, "Why not dip your own cinnamon bears?"   Then, I mentioned it to my granddaughter who was with me and of course she was on board!   So, the search began to first find the cinnamon gummy bears to dip!  They do have them online, but we didn't want to wait overnight to have them shipped! (First world problem!)  Besides, they were much less expensive at Winco, where we found them by the bin full for under $3 per pound! 

     We decided to dip our bears in a mixture of semi-sweet and milk chocolate.  The chocolate blended together was not too sweet and not too bitter.  It went really well with the cinnamon taste of the bears.  
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You know me, just like when making Hot Cocoa Bombs, I melt the chocolate in the double boiler.

Use a skewer to dip the bears.

​More Tips for Dipping:

• Melt the chocolate until it is smooth in a double boiler or a bain-marie. 
• You don't have to poke the skewer in very far.  The stickiness of the bear holds it on very well.  It will come off the skewer much easier if it isn't in too far.
• Tap the skewer a bit to let the excess chocolate drip off the bear.
• Use a spoon or other utensil to push the gummy bear off of the skewer onto a parchment lined tray.
• When the bears are all dipped, or the tray is full, place them in the fridge or freezer to harden. 

Freshly dipped

     After they are all hardened and you've eaten more than you should, the real fun begins!  Giving them to other people!  There are so many ways, reasons and uses for giving these wonderful things away! Since you can dip a ton of them, why not share?  Here are some ideas! 

See how I left one bear only half dipped so he would show in the middle of this bag?

I have pdfs of these labels for you to print off at the end of this post.

• Dip them with your grandchildren! What a fun project to do together!
• Take them as a road trip surprise!
• Make them as party favors, for a birthday or a baby shower!
• Give them as a handout for a lesson that you teach at church.
• Use them at a youth camp as a treat with a message.
• Give them to anyone who needs a pick-me-up! 
• Give them as a small gift for an office or neighbor.
• Forget to give them all away and eat them yourself??

     I had those little cookie bags in my stash of food/hot cocoa bomb supplies.  They are super reasonable on Amazon.  Mine are 3 x 5 inches, which holds 6 bears perfectly.  I like them because they have a self adhesive top that folds over and then the little label can fit on the flap. 
      When putting the bears into the bags, I like to use little tongs like these so that I don't melt the chocolate by touching it with warm hands and leaving fingerprints. 

      Here are the PDFs for the labels!  I printed them on 2.5 x 1 inch address labels.  Let me know if they work for you and if you try these Chocolate Dipped Cinnamon Gummy Bears, did you eat them all  yourself? (I won't judge!) Or, did you have clever ways and reasons to give some away? 

After you dip your bears, you may have leftover chocolate! Here are some ideas to use it up! 

• 5 Favorite Things to Dip in Chocolate!
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