Advent Calendar

Thursday, 04th December 2008

Christmas is coming

We visited the first Christmas market, the  gingerbread house  is ready and nicely ornamented, most of the Christmas gifts are organized and all the many decoration items are created, too. Only the baking of cookies is pending. In short: I am good in time.
But if you think now that I have to be really lucky and satisfied, you are wrong. I am still sparkling of new ideas to create little gifts, dishes and decoration items. This all takes additional time, of course.

One of this many ideas I am going to present you now. It is a small Christmas tree made out of chocolate, which can be used as table decoration for Christmas or an invitation gift for your friends. And here it is:

Directions:

1. Double the baking paper, cut small squares (15 x 15 cm) and form small triangular bags and fix it with adhesive tape. Now place them (upside down) in a turned egg box.
2. Melt the chocolate and fill into the cones but only half.
3. Add some Smarties (chocolate beans) or chopped almonds and fill up with chocolate.
4. Let it cool down.
5. Mix half of the icing sugar with the green food colouring and lemon juice to a paste-like mixture.
6. Mix similar the second half only with lemon juice.
7. Mix the ground almonds with the food colouring. You get a mixture of green, brown and white particles.
8. Remove the chocolate  cones from the paper, coat it with the green paste and roll it in the ground and coloured almonds.
9. Now fix with the green paste some of the gold and silver pellets on the surface.
10. Fix on top of a big biscuit  a small one with the uncoloured paste and stick the small tree with the same paste.

How do you like it? Doesn’t it look sweet?