Chocolate Pops for Wedding Favors

One of the most fun parts of planning a wedding is picking out favors. You can really make a big impact with a small trinket. Favors can be grouped together in a beautiful container such as a wicker basket, a painted pail, a silver bowl or a glass apothecary jar. Or you can do favors at each place setting for a finishing touch to your tablescape. Whatever way you choose to display your favor, guests certainly seem to enjoy them!

I've had the opportunity to help many brides come up with wedding favors, small bags of candy with tissue paper, chocolate pops, hershy's kisses wrapped in tulle, bags of coffee beans wrapped in beautiful paper with a monogram sticker, even a full "candy bar."

I think my favorite so far has been the "chocolate pop" on a stick. These favors can be bought by many candy boutiques in the Twin Cities such as Candyland off of Wabasha Street in St. Paul. http://www.candylandstore.com/aboutus.html

However, these favors are easy to make on your own! With a little elbow grease and some tools from Michael's craft store you can create your very own chocolate pop to coordinate with the theme of your wedding. Michael's has a variety of Wilton chocolate molds. They also carry Wilton lolli-pop sticks and Wilton cellophane bags.

Simply buy a few huge bags of chocolate chips, place them in the chocolate molds and bake in the oven. Then put the lolli pop stick into the chocolate molds and put them into the freezer. After they have hardened you can either decorate them with frosting, sugar sprinkles or a different color of melted chocolate! Wrap the finished favor in a cellophane wrapper and tie with a ribbon!

This project can be time intensive but it really is very cost effective and easy to do. If you are looking for a tasty favor to treat your guests with and something that easily coordinates with your wedding scheme, this is a great choice.


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