Chocolate Lovers Can Try This Tasty Christmas Craft
Chocolate Dipped Spoons are a Tasty and Fun Christmas Craft
Edible Christmas crafts are a great choice during the holiday season. After all, yummy treats and the winter months go hand in hand. Edible Christmas crafts tend to make great Christmas gifts. One incredibly popular and tasty edible Christmas craft is chocolate dipped spoons.
Why Spoons?
Chocolate dipped spoons are great coffee stirrers, but commercially available ones can be quite expensive. If you make this Christmas craft, you can save some money and have some fun in the process. Chocolate covered spoons are a great addition to coffee or hot chocolate. The greatest advantage to making your own chocolate covered spoons is that there are an endless variety of flavors that you can make. You can buy mint chocolate candy bars or chocolate and orange bars for tasty variations. Whatever flavors you choose, just make sure to label your final product so your gift recipients will know what they are consuming.
A Price You Can Afford
Chocolate covered spoons can fit every budget too. You can purchase pricier red and green spoons to use for a festive touch to this Christmas craft or you can purchase basic white spoons if that is all your budget allows.
What You Need
To make chocolate covered spoons you will need the obvious-chocolate! You can purchase semisweet chocolate chips or any variety of chocolate candy bar to melt down. If you have a double boiler, use that to melt your chocolate. If not, you can use an oven-proof bowl and rest it on top of a pot of boiling water. Make sure the bowl fits inside the pot but does not touch the boiling water. You can even use the microwave if you like the added convenience of it or you are making this Christmas craft with young children.
Once you have melted the chocolate of your choice, you will dip the plastic spoons into the chocolate and let any excess chocolate drip off. Place the dipped chocolate spoons on a baking sheet lined with wax paper and place the sheet into the refrigerator until the spoons harden. For added variety, you can dip some spoons into crushed candy canes or peppermint candies. For this Christmas craft, presentation is key. Dip your final product in cellophane and make sure you include a label to indicate what flavor of chocolate you used. Try this Christmas craft project for an easy and quick homemade Christmas gift.