Hot Chocolate Dipping Spoons by James and Nick

James and Nick Created these, Christmas 2011

(Playing catch-up on some of our crafts this week).  Here we worked on the Hot Chocolate Dipping spoons--we made these into a bouquet to attach to the outside of our neighbor's gift box (with the candy cane wreath inside).

Needed:

• Chocolate (we used about a half a cup of semisweet chocolate chips)
• Candy decorations:
• we used marshmallows
• colored sugar
• dried cranberries
• edible sparkle dust
• broken candy cane
• Plastic spoons ( we had clear, but colored ones from the Dollar store or such would give a nice festive touch)
• Siran Wrap or plastic baggies (not zipper seal sort)
• Ribbon ( we used about 6in each, for a total of 42in)
• a book about 1/2in-3/4in thick

Directions:

1. Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 15sec intervals, stirring after each 15sec, until the chocolate is mostly melted.
2. Temper the chocolate, if desired.  (  How to melt and temper chocolate )
3. Place back end of spoon on book and rest the bowl of spoon on counter or table--this will level the chocolate.
4. Spoon your melted chocolate into the bowl of the spoon.
5. Press desired candy decorations into the chocolate (if using other chocolate, make sure melted chocolate has cooled enough not to melt the new chocolate) or sprinkle with sugars.
6. Let cool.  We cooled to room temp first, then placed in fridge for a bit.
7. Once solid, wrap the chocolate ends with siran wrap or plastic bag and tie off with a ribbon.

Note:
The boys loved this craft and want to do it again with a greater variety of decorations, ie edible silver balls, cinnamon red hots, jelly beans, etc.

Scooped from this website: http://deliciousdeliciousdelicious.blogspot.com/2010/02/chocolate-party-spoons.html