Sunday, June 7, 2009

Homemade Chocolate Ideas for Christmas

Holidays are a great time to surprise your family and friends with homemade chocolates, and making homemade chocolate for Christmas is sure to make the holiday more festive. If you love to give personal gifts to your family and friends, or if you are trying to keep your holiday spending budget low making homemade chocolates make great, inexpensive presents.

Here are some ideas that you can use to make your Christmas holiday more festive with homemade chocolate.

  • Homemade chocolates that are wrapped in plastic and then arranged in a pretty holiday tin make wonderful inexpensive gifts for teachers, ministers, postal carriers, newspaper carriers, delivery people, bosses, Secret Santa gift exchanges and holiday parties.

  • When you need to bring a dessert to a holiday party and you want your dessert to really stand out make some homemade chocolates and arrange them on a holiday serving platter with a fresh fruit garnish.

  • Homemade chocolates make great stocking stuffers.

  • Use some of your homemade chocolate to make some rich holiday hot chocolate to enjoy on a cold winter night.

  • Need gifts for a large amount of people, like all the people in your office, or each of the 30 kids in your child’s class at school? Put one or two homemade chocolates in a small candy box and have your child decorate the outside of the box with markers, glue and paint and you have a unique gift that doesn’t cost a lot or take a lot of time to make.

  • Use your holiday cookie cutters to cut out some homemade chocolate fudge in holiday shapes.

  • Make sugar free and low fat homemade chocolates instead of Christmas cookies to try and keep the amount of holiday calories that you eat under control.

  • Make some homemade chocolate bark or chocolate cherry bark and arrange it on a platter with some fresh fruit and use that as an edible centerpiece for your holiday table.