My boys & I did a VERY SIMPLE Christmas treat for our friends: Chocolate Dipped Spoons. We bought a box of 100 plastic spoons, 1 bag of milk chocolate chip, 1 bag of white chocolate chips and we already had red and green sprinkles.
1 - Melt the milk chocolate chips (I just did this in the microwave). I also did it in a mug because I wanted the chocolate to be easy to dip into rather than needing to scoop it from a bowl.
2 - Dip a spoon in the chocolate, shake off the excess and set it on a cookie sheet covered with wax paper.
3 - Dip and dip and dip some more spoons until the cookie sheet is covered with milk chocolate spoons.
4 - Put that tray in the freezer while you cover another tray.
5 - When the milk chocolate is hard enough, which it was for me when I was done with the second tray. Melt the white chocolate chips.
6 - Dip the milk choc. spoon part way into the white chocolate - you don't want to completely cover the brown chocolate.
7 - Set it on the wax paper again to dry. Quickly sprinkle it with red sprinkles and green sprinkles. Since the milk chocolate is already cold, you can only do 2-3 spoons (if you're fast) at a time before you need to use the sprinkles otherwise they won't stick to the hardened white chocolate.
One batch did about 45 spoons. Then we gave one spoon and one hot chocolate packet for each person within a family so they can stir their hot chocolate with a chocolate spoon. Or, they can just eat the chocolate off the spoon if they don't like hot chocolate.
It was a great treat for our many friends this year and I think it might become the traditional treat. So easy and yet very festive!
This looks like such a fun, yummy, and great treat to do with kids! Could you re-post this next year in about November so I'll remember to do it? I want to do this with our kids : ).
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