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 looks like a perfect bowl for ice cream! We will be making these next time we have an ice cream sundae night. Thanks for the wonderful idea!
Yum! I can’t wait to give this a try. I would serve cake and ice cream in a chocolate bowl, I would serve an ice cream sundae in a chocolate bowl, and I would serve a banana split in a chocolate bowl. Thank you for sharing this awesome post.
What a fun way to serve dessert! Thank you for sharing with us.
What a great idea. This would be fun for the upcoming holidays. So unexpected I am sure it would impress the kids and parents. I am bookmarking this for later. Thanks for the great idea.
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. I am definitely going to try this!!
I love this idea of using balloons to make chocolate bowls . it would be wonderful at any celebration.
What a fun and delicious idea! I would put all kinds of fruit in there and marshmallows too! I can’t wait to try these so I’m pinning the recipe for later! Thanks for sharing it!
I just love chocolate and these look so yummy and fun to make!
This looks so delicious! I will be making these! 🙂
Oh you make this look so easy!! And seriously what a great way to use holiday leftovers!! This is seriously one of my “fat kid” dreams is to mix everything together!! Now I can do it AND eat it out of a chocolate bowl?!?!?!?! SO HAPPY!
Great ideas! I love the chocolate bowl!
Thankyou for sharing this awesome recipe. I love the Chocolate Bowls. The one thing I would do is make Ice cream Sundaes in them.Kind of like a waffle bowl. The only problem I would have is popping the Balloon. Never could stand that even as a child. Lol!
I love chocolate anytime, so this is a great recipe. It isn’t that hard to make either, so I am looking forward to it.
I love this idea! I always have so much chocolate left over from every holiday and this is the perfect way to use it and make a fabulous centerpiece for the next holiday table! I think for the 4th of July it would be perfect to fill it with strawberries, blueberries and fresh whipped cream for the red, white and blue theme! I’m having a small BBQ later today and I think I will try this right now!
This is awesome! I would never think of something like this. Such a great idea for my next get-together.
This is a great idea and it makes me hungry for chocolate!
I really like this. It is such a nice way to present desserts leftovers. thanks.
This looks good like to have some love chocolate
This I never thought of doing this. I am going to show my mom this she’ll get a kick out of it and this would be most use with the Easter chocolate we never can finish lol
Oh my goodness, the chocolate bowls are wonderful for all kinds of desserts!