Dec 18 2009
Home made Christmas chocolates … YUM + EASY
Anyone who knows me, knows I am not the greatest in cooking… ( I can hear you Christie yelling “thats so true! She failed the No fail Banana cake!”). Yep I did!!
When Tiana asked if we could make some little Christmas cakes and some Christmas chocolates, I immediately said yes! (though after 2 seconds… thought gee… what did I say!!!)
I had a recent Donna Hay magazine so I got some inspiration from her and decided to look in the pantry. Now I know I should have got a recipe from my countless number of cook books, but I really didnt want to throw another batch of failed cooking out. When I spied a no name labelled fruit cake, I got inspired. Yep, above is a combination of no name labelled fruit cake, and the end result actually suprised Tiana… let alone myself. With a little decoration, they dont look half bad!
Step 1
Gathered the ingredients for the next step. White chocolate, brown chocolate, coconut, chopped nuts, and broken peppermint crisp. Melted chocolate, then spooned some over the cake balls. Decorated each with either of the above and popped them in patty pans. You know the ones… the really small ones my hubby would scoff at and say they were for Christmas elves muffins! He likes it all BIG!!
Sure… we made heaps of mess…. but thats half the fun isnt it? Strange though Tiana seems to have disappeared at this point!! Hmmmm?????? There was a bit of chocolate left so we mixed white chocolate with shredded coconut… YUMMO and brown chocolate with the nuts… mmm yummy!
We popped them onto a clean decorative plate, added a star and wholla!
We decided it wasnt festive enough so cahnged our decoration idea to that in top picture. Much more festive dont you agree?
And considering, it was quick, easy, no cooking involved… I am most impressed with my efforts.
next to tackle a cupcake….mmmm? may prove difficult do you think? Melissa from busybee cupcakes though may laugh at me!! But thats a January project.
