little red candies.....

ok, so.....i have a confession.....much as i have not a sweet bone in my body....i have a passion for those little cinnamon redhots......a love affair almost as old as i...when my grandmother in cleveland kept them in a glass candy dish on her coffee table.....and if my brother and i worked together, he could lift the lid, and i could scoop out a handful for each of us....and he would have the lid back on and both of us out the door before anybody was the wiser.....at some point my grandmother caught on....and moved her dish to the shelf above the kitchen sink.....one had to be mighty crafty, or actually do the dishes by hand to get a quick taste.......gentle readers, one could simply ask grandma for a handful, but if it were close to dinner....the answer would be no.......hence the stealth....as if we were clever in the least.....just think what a couple of handfuls of redhots does to one's tongue.....it was not like nobody knew.....but i digress from the redhots now in a dwindling bag in the corner cupboard's top shelf.....i bought them to make holly leaf cut-out cookies...the cookies are baked...all we need do is to make the green frosting....3 candies go on each one.....maybe tomorrow.....if there are candies left