Hot chocolate stirrers
These hot chocolate stirrers make great Christmas Eve treats or homemade gifts for friends. When you are ready to use one of the stirrers, heat up a mug full of milk and stir in until fully combined. 
You will need 8 clean and dry fromage frais yoghurt pots, 8 lolly sticks, cellophane and ribbon for wrapping. 
Ingredients
- 400g/ 14oz milk, dark or white chocolate, broken into squares
- sunflower oil, for greasing
To decorate
- Christmas sprinkles
- chocolate chips
- crushed candy cane
- mini marshmallows
- salted caramel fudge pieces
Method
Grease the clean yoghurt pots with the oil and place them on a tray. 
Put the chocolate in a microwave-proof bowl and melt the chocolate by putting the microwave on for 30-second intervals until melted. Alternatively, melt the chocolate in a bowl placed over a pan of simmering water.  Be careful that the bowl doesn't touch the water.
Pour the chocolate into each yoghurt pot, decorate the tops of the stirrers with Christmas sprinkles, chocolate chips, crushed candy canes, mini marshmallows and salted caramel fudge pieces to your liking.
Place a lolly stick in the centre of each stirrer then put the tray of stirrers in the fridge and leave overnight to set. 
Remove from the pots, then wrap up in cellophane secured with ribbon as gifts.
To serve, heat up a mug full of milk in the microwave or in a small pan over a medium low heat and stir in your chocolate stirrer until fully combined.  Top with extra sprinkles, marshmallows or even whipped cream. Enjoy!
Recipe Tips
You can top these with anything you fancy as long as they would make a nice addition to a hot chocolate.
We like adding extra marshmallows when we melt the hot chocolate stirrers in warm milk.
If the stirrers are hard to remove from their pots, pour some freshly boiled water into a bowl and dip each one in for a few seconds to loosen them.
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