Recipe
Craft
Special
Recipe
Craft
Special
Dress up your hot chocolate!
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Oh Christmas! A perfect time for warm hot chocolate.
Here are some ways you can dress up your plain ol'hot chocolate to make it look extra special.
Methods
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Top it with marshmellows
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Plop in an ice cream - Get your hot chocolate real warm and add a scoop of your favorite flavor of ice cream to make it extra creamy. Cookies and creamy hot chocolate anyone?
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Add a candy cane in - Not only does it serve as a decoration and a stirrer, it also adds a peppermint flavour to your hot chocolate!
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Cinnamon Sticks - Your hot chocolate suddenly looks like you ordered it from a really nice restaurant and has a little spice flavour to it!
Felt Chrismas Tree
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What You Need
Green felt
Brown felt
White glue
Pen
Scissors
Methods
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Draw a pair of Christmas tree outlines on green felt.
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Cut out the pair of felt trees.
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Cut out a rectangular-shaped trunk from brown felt.
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Create the tree trimmings by cutting out small shapes from various colors of felt.
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Decorate the trees by gluing on the felt shapes using white glue.
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At the back of one of the trees, glue the trunk midway along the tree's bottom edge.
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With the tree still facing down, apply glue close to its edges, except along the top 1/3 portion of the tree.
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Place the second tree on top, aligning both trees along the edges. Press along the seams. Watch out for any hot glue that might ooze out from the edges.
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Once the glue sets, fill the tree with cotton. Use stick or a pencil to push down the stuffing deep inside the tree.
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Loop a piece of string and use glue to fix it in place on the inside of the tree, close to the top.
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Once content with the amount of stuffing inside the tree, seal the opening on top using glue.
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Glue a felt star at the tip of the tree. Hang this felt tree as a charming Christmas tree ornament.
Chocolate Caramel Lava Cake
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Ingredients
Chocolate Cake box mix
250gram wrapped caramel
6 tablespoons evaporated milk
Muffin pan
Methods
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Preheat oven following the instructions on the cake mix box.
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Prepare chocolate cake as instructed on the box
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Fill one quarter to half of the muffin pan with cake mix
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Bake for about 8 minutes
For caramel filling
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Microwave caramel and evaporated milk for 30 seconds then stir
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Repeat until caramel is completely melted
Add caramel filling
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Remove the cake from oven after 8 minutes &s; press a spoon into the middle of the unfinished cake
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Pour 3 - 4 tablespoons of caramel into middle of each unfinished cake
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Pour remaining cake mix over unfinished cake and return to oven
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Bake for the time recommended on the box