In the run up to Christmas this year I’ve got several recipes to share with you for easy homemade Christmas gifts that children can make. These are all very quick and easy to make and perfect for children to help with or even make themselves.
Today’s homemade gift idea is giant chocolate jazzies, a fun recipe that is always a massive hit with the children in my family!
Every year I make up little hampers of homemade sweets for my family, it’s become a tradition! Last year I shared my recipe for 2 ingredient fudge here on the blog, and earlier this year I also shared my recipe for raspberry coconut ice (I’ve got the recipe for a plain version coming soon too), but today I’ve got a recipe for extra easy giant chocolate jazzies to share with you.
Be sure to check out my recipe video so you can see just how easy these are to make, and look out for more fun chocolate gift recipe ideas in the video too!
These are so easy even a toddler could make them, they are a great way to use up melted chocolate from other projects too and you can easily make them dairy free by using a dairy free dark chocolate in the place of the milk chocolate.
I just made a batch of milk chocolate jazzies for this post, but you could also use white or dark chocolate or a combination of all three if you need a lot of them. These make a great last minute teacher gift idea!
Giant Chocolate Jazzies
Ingredients:
- 200g good quality milk chocolate
- 1 pack of sprinkles
Method:
Lay out 12 silicone cups onto a small baking tray or plate.
Break up the chocolate and pop it in a microwave safe bowl. Melt the chocolate by cooking at 30 second intervals in the microwave, stirring in between each time. Take care not to burn it!
Once melted and lump free, drop a spoonful of chocolate into each of the silicone cups.
Once all the chocolate has been used up, tap the tray or plate with the silicone cups on onto your work surface to get rid of any air bubbles and to smooth out the layer of chocolate in each cup.
Pour the sprinkles into a bowl (I used some red green and white hundreds & thousands which I found in the pound shop but any sprinkles would work), then sprinkle a generous layer on top of the chocolate.
Place the tray or plate into the fridge to set for half an hour or so. It helps if the chocolate is really cold for the next step.
Pop the jazzies out of each of the silicone cups and if you’re giving them as gifts, wrap them up. These look lovely in little cupcake boxes or cellophane bags tied with a pretty ribbon.
Store them in the fridge or somewhere fairly cool.
If you’d like more edible gift ideas check out my 2 ingredient chocolate fudge and coconut ice recipes, and pop over to Pinterest to follow my Edible Gift Ideas Pinterest board too! You might also like these yummy chocolaty homemade present ideas from some of my blogging friends:
- Rice Crispy Christmas Puddings from Life at the Zoo
- Christmas Pudding Chocolate Truffles from All You Need is Love and Cake
- Chocolate Spoons from Blue Bear Wood
- Chocolate Christmas Trees from Family Friends Food
- Cookie Dough Truffles from The Hedge Comber
- Candy Cane Bark from Foodie Quine
- Snowman Soup from The Diary of a Frugal Family
Grace
Quick and easy Christmas gift idea - these yummy giant chocolate jazzies take just minutes to make and would be a perfect teacher gift for kids to make!
- 200 g good quality milk chocolate
- 1 pack of sprinkles
- Lay out 12 silicone cups onto a small baking tray or plate.
- Break up the chocolate and pop it in a microwave safe bowl. Melt the chocolate by cooking at 30 second intervals in the microwave, stirring in between each time. Take care not to burn it!
- Once melted and lump free, drop a spoonful of chocolate into each of the silicone cups.
- Once all the chocolate has been used up, tap the tray or plate with the silicone cups on onto your work surface to get rid of any air bubbles and to smooth out the layer of chocolate in each cup.
- Pour the sprinkles into a bowl (I used some red green and white hundreds & thousands which I found in the pound shop but any sprinkles would work), then sprinkle a generous layer on top of the chocolate.
Place the tray or plate into the fridge to set for half an hour or so.
Pop the Jazzies out of each of the silicone cups, and if you're giving them as gifts, wrap them up.
Store them somewhere cool and dry.
These look lovely in little cupcake boxes or cellophane bags tied with a pretty ribbon!
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Chelsea @ Life With My Littles says
November 13, 2015 at 9:33 pmYummy! These look so good! And I love how simple they are to make!
Grace says
November 13, 2015 at 11:32 pmThank you! They really are delicious, everyone seems to love them!
Louise Fairweather says
November 16, 2015 at 11:26 amWhat a great idea – little man would like making these
Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs says
November 16, 2015 at 11:14 pmJazzies are one of my favourite sweets! I don’t know why I haven’t made these before! I don’t have silicone cupcake cases unfortunately. How well would they work with paper cases?
Lucy says
December 10, 2018 at 7:59 pmYummy. How long would they last? How close to giving as a gift should I make them?
Grace Hall says
December 11, 2018 at 6:57 pmHi Lucy, these should last at least a week or so (they’ve never lasted very long in our house!) so you can make several days in advance if giving as gifts. Hope that helps!