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Mint-Chocolate Coffee Spoons
(A quick and easy way to enjoy mint-chocolate coffee!)

My sister-in-law makes these, and they sell them at school events to raise money for the parochial school where her son is enrolled. She says they “sell like hotcakes.” Suggested price: 2 for $1. If you want to make gifts for people for birthdays or Christmas or other special occasions, or as party favors, the coffee spoons work well for that too.

‘ Ordinary plastic spoons

‘ Bars of Hershey’s chocolate

‘ Hard peppermint candy or, for something different, try dinner mints

‘ Saran Wrap or other plastic wrap

‘ Short pieces of ribbon

Learning About The Coffee Pod
A coffee pod, essentially, is freshly roasted coffee that is tampered to the perfect temperature and then wrapped in paper. Using pods in your machine pretty much …..

Melt the chocolate. Dip the plastic spoons in the chocolate. Lay spoons on wax paper. Before the

chocolate sets, place a mint in the middle of the spoon.

When the chocolate has cooled and hardened, cover spoon with Saran Wrap (or other plastic wrap). Tie a ribbon around handle of the spoon to hold the plastic wrap in place. (Use colored plastic wrap and coordinating colors for the ribbon, if you prefer.)

To use: pour a cup of hot coffee, take the plastic wrap off the spoon, stick the spoon in the coffee and stir. And TA-DA! — mint chocolate coffee.

Note: You might want to add some chocolate chips to the melted chocolate to give it a somewhat

Coffee Drink Basics

When you enter a coffee house, you have a multitude of drink choices like latt’cappuccino, straight shot and caff’ocha just to name a few.

Sometimes knowing what to order can be …..

firmer consistency when it cools off. You may also want to experiment a bit with dipping the spoons a couple of times.

Another note: you could also experiment with other flavors. What about vanilla almond bark and
butterscotch candy’ Or chocolate and butterscotch’ Or chocolate and raspberry candy’ You get the picture, I’m sure.

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About the Author

LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the books “Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm)” and “Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam.” http://ruralroute2.com ……

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