Don’t let the chocolate trees intimidate you. They are so easy, yet so impressive to your party guests. I made these chocolate trees for a Halloween treat and turned them into Haunted Chocolate Trees. but you can easily transform them into any type of holiday tree. This is a perfect way to make a last-minute fun treat for your party…
How to Make Chocolate Trees
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Making Haunted Chocolate Trees
If you add a couple of candy eyes, black frosting eyebrows, and some red sprinkles for red eyes – you’ve got yourself a cute haunted chocolate tree!
Are you looking for Halloween Treats? Check out some of my other ideas…
Are you ready to make these Chocolate Trees? Let’s make sure you have everything that you need…
Ingredients You’ll Need:
- Chocolate Melts – Dark Brown
- A zip-tight bag or a candy squeeze bottle
- Wax Paper
- Other possible equipment: a small baking sheet that fits into the freezer, scissors
How to Make Chocolate Trees
- place wax paper on your work surface
- Using a small microwave-proof glass bowl, melt the chocolate melts
- *I typically melt mine for 1 minute in the microwave and stir until smooth. If needed, I pop the chocolate melts back in for 30 more seconds and stir until smooth
- Pour the warm chocolate into the squeeze container or bag =(squeeze out the excess air, and zip tight – snip a corner for chocolate to squeeze through)
Now, just start drawing trees:
- Start with the middle of the tree – the main straight part. squeeze the chocolate out into a line and repeat next to the line, going up and down – making the tree wider until you like the width
- Then form a V at the top
- add branches from the V, making smaller V’s at the tips
Turning Trees into Haunted Chocolate Trees
- While the chocolate is still melted, add candy eyes to the tree
- You can also add red non-perils for red eyes
- Melt black chocolate, and place into a squeeze candy bottle – add black slanted upward eyebrows over the candy eyes to make the tree look spooky and angry
Alternative to Black Chocolate Eyebrows
Turn chocolate frosting black by adding black food coloring and mixing until blackUse black frosting to make eyebrows by squeezing through a piping back with a writing tip
Making Chocolate Trees
Chocolate Trees are so easy to make and transform any dessert into something unique and special.
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Servings: 24 varies
Calories: 17cal
Equipment
- 1-2 squeeze bottle made for candy. The second bottle is in case you are making Haunted trees to hold the black chocolate
- wax paper
- Scissors
- baking sheet lined with wax paper
Ingredients
- 1 11 oz. Chocolate Melts – Dark Brown
- A zip tight bag or candy squeeze bottle
- Wax Paper
For Haunted Trees
- 48 non perils red – round sprinkles
- 48 candy eyes
- 1 6 oz. candy melts black
Other possible equipment:
- scissors
- Baking Sheet lined with wax paper that will fit into the refrigerator
Instructions
- place wax paper on your work surface
- Using a small microwave proof glass bowl, melt the chocolate melts
- *I typically melt mine for 1 minute in the microwave and stir until smooth. If needed, I pop the chocolate melts back in for 30 more seconds and stir until smooth
- Pour the warm chocolate into the squeeze container or bag =(squeeze out the excess air, and zip tight – snip a corner for chocolate to squeeze through)
Now, just start drawing trees:
- Start with the middle of the tree – the main straight part. squeeze the chocolate out into a line and repeat next to the line, going up and down – making the tree wider until you like the width
- Then form a V at the top
- add branches from the V, making smaller V’s at the tips
Adding Haunted Decorations
- While the chocolate is still melted, add candy eyes to the tree
- You can also add red non-perils for red eyes
- Melt black chocolate, and place into a squeeze candy bottle – add black slanted upward eyebrows over the candy eyes to make the tree look mad
Notes
Alternative to Black Chocolate
Turn chocolate frosting black by adding black food coloring and mixing until black
Use black frosting to make eyebrows by squeezing through a piping back with a writing tip
To dry trees: simply let the trees harden at room temperature. Time will vary depending on the temperature in your room – or – use that wax-lined baking sheet to pop them into the fridge for a minute to two
Nutrition
Calories: 17cal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 0.003g | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.004g | Cholesterol: 0.01mg | Sodium: 0.1mg | Potassium: 0.1mg | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 0.01IU | Calcium: 0.1mg
~ Melissa – Kid Friendly Things To Do .com
