Rudolph Hot Cocoa Spoons

This morning I started putting some treats together for a hot cocoa bar at work.  While dipping some white plastic spoons in chocolate to use as stirrers, there arose such a clatter! To the window I ran to see what was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes should appear?  A vision- Chocolate reindeer with shiny red noses and huge bright eyes! Santa must have sent me inspiration from the North Pole.  To say I was excited is an understatement.  I was like a little girl on Christmas morning.  

Notes:

*Be sure to use candy wafers and not melted chocolate chips.  The wafers harden {without refrigeration} and stay hard.  I tried a few with chocolate chips when I ran out of wafers and they became soft when taken out of the fridge.

*Add Red Hot noses right after you coat spoons in chocolate. Add the eyes {using chocolate as glue} after the coating has set.  They looked much better this way and they didn’t slip and slide around the spoon!

You’ll Need:

White plastic spoons

Chocolate Candy Wafers

Red Hots

Candy Eyeballs

Cake decorating bag, writing tip {or use a baggie and snip the corner}

How To:

Place candy wafers in a small bowl {I used about 1/3 of a bag to coat the spoons}.  Microwave on half power for 30 seconds.  Remove, stir, and place back in microwave. Heat for another 30 seconds.  Stir to finish melting or place back into microwave and heat for 15 seconds until melted.

Dip spoons in chocolate and twirl to coat both front and back.  Add a Red Hot nose.  Place on wax paper to dry completely  When chocolate is set, using more melted chocolate as “glue,” add candy eyeballs and allow to dry.

Melt more chocolate candy wafers if necessary and spoon into piping bag.  Draw chocolate antlers on wax paper and let them dry completely.  Use more melted chocolate on back of spoon glue antlers.  Push bottom of antlers into the chocolate and cover with more chocolate.  Place, face down, on wax paper.  These take just a few minutes to completely set.

These would be adorable wrapped in cellophane and tied with a bow for gifts!

Thom and I made a few little videos I was hoping to piece together.  I have no idea how to use the movie maker so I just spliced them all together and went with it.  Uploading it is proving to be a problem.  I’ll share it as soon as I can figure it out!!