CHOCOLATE TABLETOP TREES

The first Craft Party craft was very ambitious. It was an edible chocolate tabletop tree. I made the bases from a Rice Crispies Treat recipe. They were varying sizes but all shaped as cones. The chocolate non-pareil candies were fixed to the bases using melted chocolate chips. Some of us put M&Ms here and there as ornaments and others used white chocolate mints with colored non-pareils. They all came out so well and we had a blast making and eating our way throught the craft. Here's a picture of what they looked like along with a toothpick snowball that I created by sticking a styrofoam ball with loads of wooden toothpicks and then spraying the whole thing with flocked spray snow. It's messy and remains messy for weeks so only do this if you can put it somewhere people aren't tempted to touch (yeah, right).