Cough Drop Suckers

   What do you do when you have a little that has a horrible croupy cough, and your so afraid to give them a cough drop in fear of them choking. Well I have found a solution, my little wild thing croupy coughed all night long last night, then he finally decided he was just going to get up for the day at 3:30 this morning. So I had plenty of time to start thinking of things to do for him to help. I remember seeing a while back on Pinterest, people making jolly rancher suckers, by melting down the jolly ranchers and sticking a sucker stick to it. Super simple, so I figured well why not do the same only with cough drops and I don't have to worry about him choking. My awesome husband kindly went to the store and bought 3 different bags of cough drops to try and sucker sticks. Its basically following the same instructions for the jolly rancher suckers, except I used a different degree on my oven. 

  So here are the simple instructions.

What you will need:

• Cough drops (whatever you or your little prefer)
• Sucker Sticks (They might be labeled Lollipop Sticks)
• Parchment Paper
• Saran Wrap

From left:

Halls Defense Sugar Free (asorted citrus)are not as strong as most cough drops

Luden's (cherry flavor) taste exactly like candy so I'm not sure if they work all that we'll

Halls Triple Soothing Action (cherry) are the strongest out of this bunch so not sure how a toddler would like the taste. 

Directions:

  Preheat oven to 300 degrees, line a baking sheet with parchment paper place cough drops spaced out (because you will be adding sucker sticks after they melt down) so make sure you have plenty of room. Bake for 9 minutes, once removed from oven immediately place sticks onto melted surface and let cool for about 5-10 min. Once cooled wrap them individually for storage and store in an air tight container. Note: oven times will vary, I have a very old oven that's why it takes 9 minutes for the cough drops to melt.

TADA!! 

IMPORTANT: These are NOT candy, they are still cough drops, so I would not recommend giving a young child a whole bunch at a time, I would do 1 every so many hours, if its needed.