We were having the choir from our church and their families over after Sunday night service for a donut fellowship. I thought this would be a great time to try out a Hot Chocolate Bar as well. I figured everyone needed a sugar rush ever once in a while!
So, because I had never actually seen a hot chocolate bar, I had to look it up online. It was rather late on Saturday before I started looking, and I was a little intimidated at first at the beautiful Hot Chocolate Bars I saw. I kept looking and got some ideas that I knew was "do-able", for me, anyway! So this is what I came up with for the Hot Chocolate Bar for the choir, and then the second set of pictures shows how I changed it up a bit the next day and made it "grand kid friendly"! (mainly replacing glass with plastic~!)
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| To make the peppermint stirrers, my daughter, Sarah, and I stuck marsh mellows on the end of the peppermint cane and then dipped them in melted white chocolate. |
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| The hot chocolate mix is from a recipe I also found on line, but ended up having to add a store bought mix to it to make it "rich" enough. So you might as well go ahead and buy a huge thing of mix and save yourself some trouble. Nesquik is just as good, especially with whole milk. Speaking of milk, you may be wondering how I served the milk for the hot cocoa. I used 2 of those large thermal pumps. I borrowed them from our church kitchen. I'm not sure what they are called. You can see a picture of them at the very end of this post. They worked great! I just kept interchanging an empty one for a full one as I heated the milk on the stove top. For the grand kids, I just used hot water. They loved it just the same! |
Now for the Grand Kid Hot Chocolate Bar! Just a simple switch from glass containers to plastic ones, and adding their favorite thing in the world, I think, WHIP CREAM! They love for me to just squirt a big old glob of it in their mouth! Oh the joys of being a grandmother! This hot chocolate bar was a huge success with the grandchildren!
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| Yummy stirring spoons made my Aunt Sarah! |
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Abby helping me put it together as we waited for Aunt Leah and Jackob to arrive from Mississippi on Monday night of the week before Christmas. She was so excited! |
