Description
Create delightful and festive Christmas Chocolate Trees with rich dark chocolate, a drizzle of white chocolate for a snowy effect, colorful sprinkles, and crunchy pretzel stick trunks. These charming edible decorations are perfect for holiday parties or thoughtful gifts, and are simple to make with minimal ingredients and no-bake preparation.
Ingredients
Scale
Chocolate Trees
- 200 grams dark chocolate
- 50 grams white chocolate
- 1/4 cup mini colorful sprinkles
- 8 pieces pretzel sticks
Instructions
- Prepare baking tray: Line a baking tray with parchment paper to prevent the chocolate trees from sticking and make removal easier later.
- Melt dark chocolate: Place the dark chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl or use a double boiler, gently heating and stirring until the chocolate is smooth and fully melted.
- Pipe tree shapes: Transfer the melted dark chocolate into a piping bag or a zip-top bag with a small tip cut off. Pipe tree shapes onto the parchment paper about 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide, ensuring that the bottom of each tree overlaps a pretzel stick to serve as the trunk.
- Melt white chocolate: Gently melt the white chocolate using the same method as the dark chocolate until smooth and drizzling consistency is achieved.
- Decorate trees: Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the dark chocolate trees to create a snowy effect.
- Add sprinkles: While the chocolate is still wet, immediately scatter mini colorful sprinkles over each tree to add festive decoration.
- Set the chocolate trees: Allow the chocolate trees to set by leaving them at room temperature or refrigerating for about 15-20 minutes until they become firm.
- Serve and display: Carefully lift the set chocolate trees from the parchment paper and arrange them on a festive platter for serving or gifting.
Notes
- Work quickly after piping the chocolate shapes as the chocolate can set fast.
- You can substitute milk chocolate or additional white chocolate for the dark chocolate if preferred.
- These chocolate trees make excellent edible gifts or charming holiday decorations on dessert tables.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 chocolate tree
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 60mg
- Fat: 9g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 5mg
