Chocolate bowls made with balloons gives a twist to holiday dessert leftovers
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Ahhh Christtmas. It’s that wonderful time of year when every thought turns to wonderful special desserts. My mother and grandma always made or served the best of everything. Whether grandma made or store bought, each treat laid out was a nod to a family tradition or something new and fun!
Now all the holidays are hosted at my house. I love to serve pies and cakes during the holidays! Who doesn’t? Sometimes I bake, sometimes to provide myself some stress relief I serve . I get homemade goodness and variety with Marie Callender’s.
Marie Callender’s has wonderful individual carrot cakes, pecan pies, cream pies like key lime and chocolate satin, fruit pies like the hard-to-find razzleberry or apple crumb cobbler, and premium pies such as caramel apple pie. Mmmmmm!
Create a dessert buffet with your holiday leftovers and chocolate bowls
For Christmas luncheon, I serve pies and cakes warm with ice cream and whip cream. However, later on in the evening, I take a different approach. I serve the same desserts from lunch, but I make a dessert buffet. I make chocolate bowls and let everyone choose different selections of desserts. They pile them in small portions into the chocolate bowl and have a new experience then they had at lunch time. With the huge variety of Marie Callender’s desserts, you can’t go wrong with this approach.
Marie Callender’s Pecan Pie and Carrot Cake ready for Buffet
How to make chocolate bowls or chocolate cups for your leftover desserts
- Blow up balloons to the size of chocolate bowl or chocolate cup that you want to achieve.
- Coat each balloon with shortening to keep the chocolate from sticking.
- Melt chocolate wafers as directed in a bowl that will allow you to coat balloons to proper depth. Spread out wax paper or parchment paper and place a small circle of melted chocolate as the base.
- Quickly dip balloons in melted chocolate and place on circles.
- Freeze chocolate dipped balloons for 30 minutes to help the chocolate set and balloon to pull away from chocolate. Remove chocolate covered balloons from fridge. Pop balloon and peel away from chocolate bowl.
- Serve leftover desserts in chocolate bowls or chocolate cups.
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What dessert would you repurpose in our Chocolate Bowls?
This would be cute to put fresh fruit in make it look really fancy!
Oh my goodness! That pecan pie would be amazing with some whipped cream, or chunks of pound cake, strawberries, and cream! I could think of a thousand things to put in these bowls! Thanks so much for sharing the idea!
I think pound cake would be great broken up with some berries and whipped cream. What a cute idea.
I wonder if you could create and egg with a stand using this…
wow awesome yummy idea:)
That’s so clever! I love the idea. I’d probably put ice cream in it!
I would repurpose some of my family’s trifle recipe in the chocolate bowls.
everything that will give me an excuse to eat chocolate, great idea. just in time for christmas, thanks
That is so adorable and I have never thought of that. I think I would put pixies in it – that would be super cute
oh wow, these look amazing!
This is really neat and never thought of it. Wonder if it would hold piggy pudding:?
I am not sure I can do this. I’m that challenged. LOL.
But, I will keep trying (and keep eating my failures) until I get it right! 😉
Strawberry trifle would be great in this…. pieces of pound cake or lady fingers, strawberries and strawberry jam, birds english custard topped with whipped cream.
We do something very similar around Easter- I love the idea of bringing this back around the holidays! I think I’d enjoy some pie a-la-mode in this bowl, witht he pie atop a heaping scoop of ice cream!
What a cool technique! I would love some chocolate mousse with whip cream and strawberries in my bowl.
I have been wanting to try this method as I buy my chocolate bowls. Thanks for posting, it looks like its worth the effort! Thanks!
I would totally try this if I could find latex free balloons! If I could, I would end up putting a Zabaione type mixture into it! Best stuff ever!
Oh wow I got so distracted by the pie I forgot to answer the question Shelley! Hummm I do like your idea of the sundae, and I am not that creative honestly, but I tell you what … I love pecan pie, and I love chocolate, so how about I just put my pie in the bowl?!
Okay I am absolutely doing this! What a wonderful idea! Also that pecan pie looks absolutely mouth watering! I LOVE pecan pie! I will grab a Marie Callender’s pecan pie tomorrow when I do my shopping.
ice cream sundae