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Hot Chocolate Spoons for your dipping pleasure
Published 01.07.2010 | Permanent Link | Comments (18)
by Marie LeBaron
As January is here and the cold wintry season is in full effect, we're warming up with some hot cocoa. But the best part is, dipping our Hot Chocolate Spoons into it! These spoons are easy to make and fun to eat, helping beat those winter blues!
Supplies for Hot Chocolate Spoons:
- spoons, plastic work best
- chocolate chips, regular and mini chips
- marshmallows
- coconut, shredded and sweetened
- peanut butter chips
- butterscotch chips
- crushed candy canes
- wax paper
- plate
Have your supplies out ready to go. Heat up your chocolate chips for spoon dipping first. Place a 1/2 cup of chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 1 minute. Take it out and stir, then continue to heat it for 20 second intervals until melted.
Once your chocolate is melted, dip your spoon into the bowl. You'll need to stir it around and turn it over to make sure you've got it all covered in chocolate. Then set the spoon onto a plate covered in wax paper.
When you've got your spoons dipped, it's time to decorate them. For the snowman, place 3 marshmallows in a line down the spoon. I topped one with a peanut butter chip for the hat and a flake of coconut for the scarf. Then two mini chocolate chips get a tiny dip of melted chocolate on the bottom of them before you place it on the top marshmallow for the eyes. Cute!
We made a few different kinds of dipped spoons. One is dipped in melted peanut butter chips with mini chocolate chips all over. We call that one the "chocolate chip cookie" dipped spoon, and it is my favorite one dipped in hot chocolate! We also sprinkled coconut on one to look like snow. Melted mint chocolate with crushed peppermint on another, and a melted butterscotch chips spoon with drizzled chocolate on the top. Mmm, Mmm!
Once you've got all your spoons dipped and decorated, let the chocolate harden again. It goes by pretty fast if you place your waxed plate in the fridge for about 15-20 minutes. Then they're ready for dipping in hot cocoa, or even your hot milk. The snowman one was our favorite to dip. He went for a big swim in chocolate. He was going...
going...
gone!
Now this is one tasty snowman! Have fun dipping your snowmen spoons in chocolate!
Also, just wrap in cellophane and add a pink or red bow and you've got great Valentines Day gifts (not that we're thinking that far ahead or anything).
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Comments (18):
Andrea Holloman said:
How wonderful! What a great "snowday" project for the kids and me!
Thanks for sharing.
Andrea in NC
Posted on January 7, 2010 11:25
Petit Elefant said:
What a darling project. A whole group of these in a cellophane bag would be such a cute snowy day present!
Posted on January 7, 2010 13:07
Catherine said:
Super duper cute!
Posted on January 7, 2010 13:25
Marisa@make*happy said:
Love the snowmen! I will definitely be giving those out next Christmas.
Posted on January 7, 2010 15:36
K. Anne said:
We have the same Pfaltzgraff plates! :)
Posted on January 7, 2010 18:34
Megan said:
oh my gosh - this is SOOOOO cute!I cannot wait to make these for an upcoming weekend ski trip with friends - they will love them!!!
Posted on January 7, 2010 21:02
Katrina @ http://obscuredflair.blogspot.com/ said:
those are soooooooooo adorable!!!! I love them!!
Posted on January 7, 2010 22:19
Gala said:
I love the snowman spoon!!!
Posted on January 8, 2010 05:32
Sherrie said:
Those are adorable. I bet my boys would love them!
Posted on January 8, 2010 06:33
smita said:
Awwwww !! These are so cute - perfect for kids parties ..
I jus love food art !!!
Smita
http://littlefoodjunction.blogspot.com/
Posted on January 8, 2010 12:35
Theresa said:
Hi
these r just to cute...do u think that they would make a good craft seller?(just curious):}
Posted on January 8, 2010 16:50
Me said:
it looks lovely... but the plastic spoons don't fit with the 'feel good' theme. Why not use wooden sticks or spoons?
Posted on January 9, 2010 03:30
Caitlyn said:
something tells me these would also be nice for chocolatey dessert cocktails.....if less child-friendly :)
Posted on January 9, 2010 13:36
Lindsey@Kindred Spirit Mommy said:
This is too cool! It would make my hot chocolate and coffee mornings much happier. ;-) Thanks for the tutorial/recipe!
I blogged about this here:
http://kindredspiritmommy.com/craft-tutorial-blog-hop-linky/
Posted on January 11, 2010 12:14
Carol said:
What fun! I'm going to make these with the grandkids this weekend!Thanks for sharing.
Posted on January 14, 2010 18:13
Carol said:
What fun! I'm going to make these with the grandkids this weekend!Thanks for sharing.
Posted on January 14, 2010 18:13
Sylvia said:
These are great even for Valentine's Day now. I really love the coconut ones.. I don't even need coffee, I'll just eat the spoons please. :) YUM!
-Sylvia
Posted on January 25, 2010 20:42
Maureen said:
Thanks for the great idea! Just made these for a valentine's day treat; they are adorable and fun to make. We tried white chocolate, too, and found that it re-hardens very quickly, so next time I'll use it immediately after melting it. It worked well to add a little red food coloring to some of the white chocolate and squeeze some cute pink hearts on top of the white or milk chocolate. YUM!
Posted on February 3, 2010 19:48