- Hot chocolate spoons setting in silicone cases
It was my mum’s 70th birthday party at the weekend and I decided to make little table gifts for everyone.
I drew inspiration from the fabulous Holly from GBBO with her hot chocolate on a stick idea over at Recipes from a normal mum.
It’s essentially a large mass of chocolate, studded with marshmallows and set onto spoons or sticks and then melted into a large mug of steaming hot milk.
It’s been so cold I thought ultra luxe comforting drinks would be universally appealing.
So how do you make them…
For a really special look, I used pretty teaspoons in Kings Design courtesy of the fantastic Cutlery and Catering. By some stroke of luck, it turned out the cutlery at Soulton Hall where the party took place, was exactly the same – spoooooky!
If you’re on a tighter budget you could use some wooden stirrers from a coffee shop.
You need a stack of silicone fairy cake cases and lots and lots of chocolate. I opted for a decent cooking chocolate with a 70% cocoa content.
I wanted to achieve a deep flavour that’d feel like a real treat. I also wanted it to cope well with being melted and set, so I didn’t buy the cheapest on the block. I bought 2.5kg, but ended up using 2.2kg to make 32.
I’m a big fan of melting chocolate in short bursts in the microwave – so my essential Lakeland microwave saucepan did a blinding job here. The pouring spout made it a dream to pour the melted chocolate into the moulds.
You need some patience once the choc is in the silicone cases. It took them at least two hours to be set enough to plunge the tips of the spoons in without them capsizing.
The best approach is to just keep squeezing the silicone cases and monitoring how firm they are getting.
As soon as the spoons are in you can press your little marshmallows onto the surface to decorate. You could add some white chocolate sprinkles too which would look lovely.
The scent of chocolate in our house was quite intoxicating – I felt like I smelt of it for days afterwards!
I left the cases of chocolate to firm up overnight, then in the morning I slipped them out of their cases and packaged them up in cellophane bags with curling ribbon and instructions.
Hot chocolate spoons on the table at mum's party
Can’t believe my mum is 70 – makes us both feel old to be honest! Her party was absolutely lovely – lots of family and friends.
Matthew dressed up in his fire kit and carried mum into the party to everyone’s delight.
And then the biggest surprise of all – my mum’s partner announced they’d got engaged – gobsmacking moment but utterly gorgeous news 🙂
Love it! I gotta try this one. You made them look so beautiful. I bet the guests loved them. How long did it take to melt in an average cup of hot milk do you think?
Glad you like them! Melting wise – it took my boys a good few minutes of swirling for it to melt. They also quite liked eating the semi-melted choc off the spoon 😉
I love this idea, they look absolutely lovely and delicious x
Thanks Stephani! They went down very well with the guests – and you should have seen how chocolatey the boys faces were after they polished theirs off!!!!
Fabulous idea – I’m pinning it, hope you don’t mind!
Glad to see you shop with the lovely Cutlery and Catering too x
Pin away! Yes cutlery and catering are a fab website – great being able to get individual pieces rather than whole sets!
What a lovely story and these little gifts are something I might just make this week seeing as it’s half term and still pretty cold. Perfect after a play in the park/garden! 🙂
Ooh yes def a good half term time filler!
It is so nice of you all to say such nice things about Cutlery and Catering. Glad you like us!!
Such pretty spoons Glenda – really made the gifts that bit extra special 🙂
These look beautiful! My MIL turns 70 soon and just got happily re-married in Vegas last summer. Age is all in the mind 🙂
As a recipient of one of Katie’s Hot chocolate spoons I’m delighted with the gift – but am supposed to be cutting down on the calories too. Dilemma… how soon do I give in and treat myself?!! and yes, it was a lovely party, with all ages present, and plenty of smiling faces at the BIG news!
Thanks, Katie.
oops! sorry Jan! You could mix it in a larger jug of skimmed milk and share it between two of you?! Or you could just throw caution to the wind, have it all to yourself on a Monday night after the walk and zumba – surely you’ll have earnt it?!
Thankyou Katie for adding such a fabulous touch to my party, I gather someone thought they had been bought!!I haven’t had mine yet as it is so lovely to look at!
thanks mum! xxxx
Comment as above but this should have my pic! thanks for the advice!!
Hi katie love these defo going to try them,i have seen them in the the flesh your mum showed me (im your Mums Hairdressing) ill defo be viewing the site more often .
thanks for checking out my blog Kerry!
what a great idea.
it’s really simple but looks so stunning – love it!
Hi Katie, I’m not a fan of dark chocolate, would you suggest using milk chocolate or does the milk itself tone down the dark chocolate?
Hi Jade – you could definitely use milk or a mix of both – whatever suits your tastes 🙂
Thank you for this fabulous idea Katie!
I love to give homemade presents at Christmas. Last year i made jars of jams and mustards to give to family and friends and wasn’t sure what to do this year. I have just made a giant batch of these to give to the girls at work and uni (i may have to hold one back though…)
Just waiting for them to cool fully before i get all creative in wrapping them up.
thank you x
i’m so chuffed you like the idea Nadine – really lovely to hear from you 🙂 Hope the chocolate spoons go down well with everyone…
Hi – I just wondered how you made sure there was enough chocolate per mug of milk – did you have specific quantities? I guess what I’m asking is were they chocolaty enough? Thanks so much – they look so lovely x
Hi Anna. They’re def chocolatey enough for a standard sized mug of hot milk 🙂
Thanks very much-I’ll have a go x