Every year I like to craft little presents for my friends and co-workers.
I usually start brainstorming/construction about a month or so before Christmas.
This year totally slipped away from me.
It being 80 and sunny every day mighta had something to do with it…
I saw pics on the FBs of Portland covered in ice and snow,
but I just can’t get into it without crafting!
So this year, I decided (the day before Christmas) to make chocolate trees!!!
Saw these lil guys online, and being the chocolate fanatic I am, wanted to make them for my friends and coworkers.
You will need:
1 bag Hershey’s kisses
2 bags mini Reese’s cups
3 pkgs individually wrapped Reese’s peanut butter cups
icing
and
SPRINKLES!!!
I also made some chocolate mouse to hold the trees together.
I used Jello chocolate instant pudding mix and 1 cup milk, 1 cup heavy cream
(instead of the box’s directions of 2cups milk) to make the mouse,
but the internet said to use melted chocolate. It’s up to you : ]
I used a ziplock with a cut in the tip to make a piping bag.
Now we’re ready to assemble!!!
- Unwrap peanut butter cups.
(I kept them in the fridge till I was ready to use to make them easier to work with.)
- Use the bottom paper from the Reese’s packaging as a place card and turn a mini upside-down in the center of it.
This is the trunk of your tree.
- Pipe a dollup of mouse on top of the mini and stack a regular sized cup upside-down on top of the mini
to create the first layer of the tree.
- Pipe a little mouse on top of another mini cup.
Stack it upside-down on top of the first layer.
- Now pipe a little mouse on the bottom of a Hershey’s kiss and put it on top of the mini cup
to finish the structure of the tree!!!
Now its time to decorate!!!
I used Betty Crocker Cake Icing in green in-between the layers of chocolate
to cover the seams and add a little color.
Then I added sprinkles to give the trees a festive look!!!
A forest of lil chocolate trees!!!
I kept the trees in the fridge for a couple hours to let the icing and mouse solidify before wrapping them.
I used green cellophane wrapping and thread to wrap them,
but if I had a choice I’d present them on a platter.
I had to bike into town with them, and they got a little smushed…
But they Loved em, even if they were a lil crooked : ]
There’s just something about chocolate
that makes working a double on Christmas
kinda not so bad…
That and the Homies.
<3
