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?
Chocolate cake! LOL. I just say a You Tube video on this yesterday. Great idea!
Sweet Berry Compote
How cute!! These chocolate bowls are very clever, I can’t wait to make some. Thank you for sharing this post.
I just scored blackberries at the grocery store for only 88 cents a carton, so I’d love to make the chocolate bowls and fill them with blackberries and whipped cream.
Chocolate Revel Bars.
Cute idea, I have chocolate from the holidays I can use. Then candies and ice cream from holiday to put in it.
This would be so fun! I think I’ll get the stuff to try making these bowls with my son, and get ice cream and the toppings for it. My husband has a huge sweet tooth, he’d love this too!
That is cool. I think the bowl would be gone too if my family was around. I love ideas like these because it is different and fun!!
I want to try making these. Pretty sure they would turn out horribly, but sure would be fun.
I would repurpose my dad’s apple pie with ice cream in one of these bowls!
I would have a huge brownie sundae in my chocolate bowl!!
I would make an ice cream sundae with whipped cream and nuts
I think that the chocolate bowls are a great idea? I would use leftover Christmas cookies , and fresh fruit.
I would put in some of the leftover gingerbread cookies and top with ice cream!
Oh my! A GREAT idea.. I have ONE concern however.. you sure you do not get a taste left on the choco from the latex balloon? I hate latex balloons. I cannot even blow them up at all. I’m not allergic, but I feel like I’m on the verge of it, I can’t put a latex balloon to my lips! The horrid taste! They leave my lips feeling horrid! Maybe there are other sorts of balloons to do this with! LOL or I would try it on a silicone dish! Cool idea. I would adore to just do this, tiny bowls, for ice cream or pudding for the kids!
A silicone dish is a great idea! Let me know if you try it Deb! The Chief BLonde
I have my chocolate…now on to make bowls!!! My grown-up kids will love these!
Now that is really awesome! Thanks for sharing! I would use them for fruit.
How neat and pretty these chocolate bowls are, I think that I would love to have strawberry cheese cake squares in this chocolate bowl with a lot of fresh strawberries and enjoy
What a great idea. I would use it for ice cream and fruit.
I would make a sundae, ice cream, strawberries or crushed pineapple and whipped cream. Yum!