We have the perfect ideas for all chocolate addicts. Make your own chocolate to drink and enjoy on a stick. What's even more interesting and visually original is to use spoons instead of handles. This unusual dessert idea is not only suitable for enjoying with the family. Nicely packaged, it can also make friends happy. If you feel like making this original dessert, our recipes for making your own drinking chocolate will help you.
Immediately afterwards we have another gift idea that is particularly interesting and goes wonderfully with Christmas. This is an idea that allows you to make drinking chocolate yourself by simply preparing a cocoa mix and filling it into transparent Christmas tree balls. The recipient can then prepare a cocoa from this ball at any time.
Now let's get to the recipes. You will find that they are not at all difficult to prepare. Choose any flavor or try several at once and have fun snacking and giving as gifts.
The steps are the same for any type of chocolate, whether milk, bitter, dark or white chocolate. In addition to any type of chocolate, you can add additional extras such as marshmallows, sprinkles, nuts or coconut flakes.
You can make your own drinking chocolate using a simple water bath and one or more bars of chocolate or couverture. Since the product will no longer retain its smooth shape if the temperature is too high, you should divide the amount. It is best to melt only 2/3 of the total amount in a water bath, stirring constantly. After removing the pot from the heat, you can melt the remaining amount perfectly by stirring it in.
Now you need containers into which you can fill the still liquid chocolate. Plastic shot glasses, an ice cube tray, a praline mold or a baking pan for mini muffins are suitable for this purpose. Depending on how big the dessert should be and what shape it should have, you can also come up with other containers.
Another idea is to spread out baking paper and distribute the chocolate on it in different shapes. For example, you can design Christmas trees like the one above. You can also use cookie cutters for cookies.
If you would like to add any of the solid ingredients mentioned above, you should do so before filling. Then insert another stem and you're done with the chocolate drink. Now the chocolate just needs to harden.
If you feel like it, you can also add interesting patterns and embellishments. Here you can see some examples that you can copy quickly and easily.
The idea of using spoons is also particularly original. You will also get a larger number because you can only dip the spoon into the chocolate several times, creating multiple layers. Or you can just fill the cavity of the spoon with chocolate. The solid components can also be added at the end as decoration.
Not only metal spoons are suitable, but also those made of wood or plastic. You can decide for yourself which variant you choose.
Whichever variant you choose, the beautifully packaged desserts can be used as a wonderful gift. Your friends and relatives are guaranteed to be wide-eyed.
Since candy canes are a must at Christmas, you can also use them to decorate. Just prepare some sprinkles from the candy cane too and sprinkle it on the spoon later.
You are welcome to add a card to the original gift on which the intended use and ingredients are noted. After all, not everyone knows the type of gift yet and may wonder what it is for.
Whether on a stick or a spoon, you can use the chocolate skewers to make hot chocolate. To do this, you simply dip it into hot milk, which causes it to begin to melt.
But the above idea isn't enough with the chocolate temptations. You've probably already seen a variety of ideas for filling transparent Christmas tree balls, but how about cocoa? You can mix this again with various other ingredients to get interesting flavors.
In principle, the intended use is the same, except that you use cocoa powder here. You can also grate the latter very finely and use it instead of cocoa.
You can also add other ingredients such as marshmallows, crumbled candy canes or mints, cinnamon and sugar. But add the cocoa first so that the other ingredients can be clearly seen on the surface.
If you want to give the cocoa a special taste, you can also mix the powder with more daring ingredients, such as coriander, cardamom, nutmeg or chili. To enhance the chocolatey taste, also add sprinkles to the couverture. Rum is also an interesting ingredient that you can't put in the ball, but you can write it on the card as a tip.
Add your favorite sweets and candies. In this example M&M's were used for this. Experiment with gummy bears, pretzel sticks, sprinkles, and other items.
You can also wrap the Christmas tree ball in an original way. For Christmas, for example, a reindeer is suitable. Depending on the occasion, come up with something interesting.
If you would like to get a lot of desserts from the melted chocolate, you can also choose this variant. The chocolate is only used as a glaze. Skewer marshmallows or another sweet or even use pretzel sticks and then dip them in. The skewers should already be prepared so that you can work quickly and finish before everything sets again.
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