Icicles for the tree

I have wanted to make some hard candy for a while now, but I hate to make it if it is just going to add to the calories I do not want. So I took the opportunity that the season offered me and made clear peppermint candy that I poured into lines on waxed paper. When it was hardened it made perfect icicles to decorate the tree.

Slightly caramelized hard candy was used to make lollipops without sticks that I used to decorate the tree in golden disks.

It is a very sweet looking tree, that will be so much fun to take down at the end of the holiday season. If the sweets last that long that is.