Make your own chocolate gifts – Idea 1
November 28, 2008
Over the next few weeks, I will be scouring the web for some fun ideas that you or your kids can make at home to give as original, home-made and chocolatey gifts!
The first idea I came accross was a “Hot Chocolate Ice-Cream Cone”.. I tried one out here in the shop, and they look really good!
How to make:
1. Buy some of your favourite hot chocolate mix – either in individual sachets, or in a larger jar or tub. You could even use some cocoa powder and add sugar. Empty enough for about 4 mugs of hot chocolate into a clear disposable icing bag. You could also use some rolled up cellophane taped up at the bottom, or a clear sandwich bag. Leave a bit of air at the top, tie it closed with an elastic band, and trim the top of the bag.
2. Push down the tied end towards the hot cocoa mixture to make an indentation. This is where the marshmallows and your choice of topping will sit.
3. Place the cocoa cone inside a second clear icing bag (or whatever you used for the first bag!). Line up the seams.
4. Put in marshmallows, then chopped chocolate pieces (or use your imagination to add other flavours – chocolate pieces with orange or mint flavour perhaps?).
5. Tie closed with an elastic band.
6. Tie a ribbon around the elastic band.
7. If you want to include instructions for making the hot cocoa, you could print them up, punch a hole in the paper, and tie it on with the ribbon.
If you try this, we would love to hear from you!