Gift your friends and family a perfect DIY cute holiday gift with these hot chocolate sticks. You can now make delicious, creamy hot chocolate with endless flavoring and topping options with these hot chocolate on a stick.
Who doesn’t love a hot cup of hot chocolate on cold winters days. It’s time you make a batch of homemade hot chocolate mix and stock it up as the days are colder and you deserve a cup of hot cocoa every-day!
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Hot chocolate on a stick
- A warm hug stuck in a stick.
- These are perfect homemade gifts.
- Friends and family would fall in love with these cute DIY holiday gifts.
- A great option if you are looking for easy last minute gifts.
- It’s very easy to make and makes a delicious, creamy, decadent hot chocolate. Make your favorite flavor of hot chocolate by swapping in flavors and toppings of your choice.
- I bet you wont stick to just one mug, these are decadent and addictive too especially during winter when you want to wrap yourself under a blanket, sit by window watch snowfall and enjoy a hot cuppa hot chocolate!
Ingredients you’ll need
- 18 oz semi-sweet or dark chocolate
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 ½ cup confectioners’ sugar or powdered sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup cream
Topping ideas:
- Mini marshmallows
- Peppermint candies
- White chocolate chips
- Sprinkles
How to make hot chocolate sticks
Use microwave or double boiler to melt dark chocolate.
If needed add ¼ teaspoon coconut oil to help melt chocolate.
Add cocoa powder, powdered sugar, salt and cream to melted chocolate.
Mix it all together.
Add chocolate to piping bag and snip off the end.
Pipe chocolate mix into silicon molds. Fill ¾ of the cavity leaving some space for toppings.
Stick a popsicle stick or lollipop stick to the center of each square.
Add desired toppings to each block of the chocolate.
Refrigerator until set, for 3 hours or overnight.
Store refrigerated until use.
If gifting, wrap in plastic bags tie with decorative ribbons.
To enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, use a LARGE cup. Pour VERY hot milk into a cup and stir chocolate stick in it until fully melted. Enjoy immediately.
FAQS
Silicon molds are best as it’s easy to pull off the chocolate once set. You can also use ice cube trays. Use disposable one serving yogurt pot. Grease with flavorless oil and fill it ⅔ full.
This is the fun bit. You can top your each squares of hot chocolate with your favorite toppings. From most popular mini marshmallows, crushed peppermint candies, white chocolate chips, sprinkles or fudge pieces, add just about anything you like in your hot chocolate.
Wrap individual sticks in clean dry cello-phone wrap or small plastic gift wraps.
Tie together with curly decorative ribbons or tags.
Add instructions like “stir me in 6oz hot milk” on the tag.
Viola, cutest and most amazing holiday gift is ready to share with friends and family.
Wrap individual chocolate squares in cello-phone wraps.
Tie the ends.
Store in air tight metal box at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Store refrigerated for 2 weeks.
You can freeze these to store longer – up to a month.
These cocoa sticks are best when stirred in hot milk. Note – depending on the size of the silicon molds, the amount of milk to be used will vary. Silicon mold squares that I used were 3.5 cm x 3.5 cm.
You’ll need 6oz VERY hot milk to make a cup of cocoa from 1 square.
You’ll need VERY hot milk for the cocoa block to melt. Use large mug, stir vigorously until melted. Enjoy.
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📋 Hot Chocolate Sticks
Ingredients
- 18 oz semi-sweet or dark chocolate
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 ½ cup confectioners’ sugar or powdered sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup cream
For topping:
- Mini marshmallows
- Peppermint candies
- White chocolate chips
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Use microwave or double boiler to melt dark chocolate. If needed add ¼ teaspoon coconut oil to help melt chocolate.
- Add cocoa powder, powdered sugar, salt and cream to melted chocolate.
- Mix it all together.
- Add chocolate to piping bag and snip off the end.
- Pipe chocolate mix into silicon molds. Fill ¾ of the cavity leaving some space for toppings.
- Stick a popsicle stick or lollipop stick to the center of each square.
- Add desired toppings to each block of the chocolate.
- Refrigerator until set, for 3 hours or overnight.
- Store refrigerated until use.
- If gifting, wrap in plastic bags tie with decorative ribbons.
- To enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, use a LARGE cup. Pour VERY hot milk into a cup and stir chocolate stick in it until fully melted. Enjoy immediately.
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Notes
- Use a mix of semi-sweet and dark chocolate to get best taste. If you like your cocoa slightly bitter use only dark chocolate.
- You can substitute powdered sugar with condensed milk.
- Silicon molds are best as it’s easy to pull off the chocolate once set. You can also use ice cube trays. Use disposable one serving yogurt pot. Grease with flavorless oil and fill it ⅔ full.
- I used silicon mold with each squares measuring 3.5cmx3.5cm.
- You’ll need VERY hot milk for the cocoa block to melt. Use large mug, stir vigorously until melted. Hot water won’t taste good for this hot chocolate sticks.
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