Chocolate Christmas Trees
Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I love all the lights and festive decorations, but most of all, I love the baking and dessert-making.
I make these simple chocolate trees every year. They’re an easy treat to eat or to use as cupcake or cake toppers.
How to make the chocolate Christmas trees:
Start by cutting paper triangle stencils about 4 inches tall.
Put the stencils in between two layers of parchment paper. Make sure you can see the stencils though the parchment paper. They will be used to trace the shape of the tree. Then, melt chocolate and put it in a piping bag or plastic bag after cutting the corner of the bag. Next, place a small pretzel rod on the stencil, leaving some of the pretzel underneath the triangle to act as the tree stump.
Then, pip away! Start from the bottom and work your way up to the top of the stencil going horizontally. Repeat a few times until you have a shape you like. Add sprinkles. (Check out the video below.)
Let dry for half an hour then refrigerate for a few minutes for the chocolate to harden.
Chocolate Christmas Trees
Ingredients
- Gluten-free pretzel rods
- Chocolate Dairy free if needed
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Cut triangles out of paper, 3-4 inches tall.
- Place triangle cutouts between two pieces of parchment paper.
- Melt chocolate in 30 second intervals until completely melted.
- Cut the corner of a piping bag or plastic bag.
- Put melted chocolate into bag.
- Place pretzel rod on parchment paper on top of stencil leaving about an inch on the bottom.
- Pip chocolate from bottom to top, tracing the triange stencil. Repeat 3 or 4 times until filled in.
- Add sprinkles.
- Let dry for half an hour, then refrigerate for a few minutes.