How To Set Up A Hot Chocolate Bar

What could exist more than festive than a Hot chocolate bar that is set for your guests and family to enjoy homemade hot? It is the perfect way to warm up on a common cold mean solar day. So, add together tops and mix-ins to brand it a gourmet indulgent treat.

How to Setup a Hot Chocolate Bar

It is fun to ready a self-serve hot chocolate bar. To proceed things interesting, I cull a different theme for our Hot Chocolate Bar every year. It is perfect for vacation parties, baby showers, birthdays, etc.

Invite guests to come in a warm-up with a corrupt hot chocolate.

Hot Chocolate Bar

Final year I added a little turquoise decor. Turquoise looks so fun with cherry-red and white.  This video shows how I fabricated the turquoise Christmas tree, cookie block, and chocolate-dipped marshmallows.

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Hot Chocolate Bar Pinecone Christmas Copse decorations

I used items from my yard to decorate my hot chocolate bar such as pine sprigs, pinecones, and my DIY pinecone trees.

Hot Chocolate Bar Ideas for Christmas

Just a piddling inspiration to go y'all started. I like to set up a Hot Chocolate Bar for Thanksgiving since information technology is my favorite way to kick off the holiday flavor.

Information technology is for anybody to enjoy both young and old. It is fun to choice a theme and alter it up a little twelvemonth to yr, but I always include my vintage Santa mugs. Lots of delicious toppings, and mix in sauces, whipped cream, etc.

Recipes for Hot Chocolate

There are many ways to make hot chocolate. Some of these ways are easier than others to fix as a self-serve hot chocolate bar.  I have included some of my favorite ways to make this cozy treat.

Keurig Java Maker

The easiest way to serve hot chocolate is with a Keurig coffee maker and hot chocolate pods. You tin identify the coffee maker on a countertop or table with a basket filled with various hot chocolate and java one thousand-cups.

Hot Chocolate Maker

I recommend my hot chocolate mix recipe and making it in a "existent" hot chocolate maker to mix, heat, barm, and serve when using a mix.

Hot Chocolate Bombs

This twelvemonth I am adding my hot chocolate bombs to the bar. To serve, I will warm the milk ahead of time and identify it in an insulated server.

Anybody loves to watch them melt and explode with all the goodies hidden inside their chocolate shell. Withal, I practice not recommend serving these for a large oversupply unless y'all have plenty of space and multiple milk servers.

However, these make a gorgeous party favor for guests to take dwelling.  Don't forget the adorable tags.

Yous're The Bomb gift with a tag

Hersey's Hot Cocoa

The Hersey Visitor has the original "Perfectly Chocolate" hot cocoa recipe printed on the side of their cocoa box. I remember my begetter continuing over the stove making hot cocoa for the family. I have and then many fond memories of sipping hot cocoa.

Crockpot (Boring Cooker)

For the Ultimate Gourmet Hot Chocolate (Serenidtiy-style), I serve Crockpot Hot Chocolate from an insulated server. Since the Crockpot recipe takes two hours to make, I arrive a mean solar day ahead and refrigerate it until I am ready to serve.

I estrus the mixture on the stove in a heavy-bottom bucket. Annotation: I find it best to heat in batches then transfer the hot mixture to an insulated server.

This recipe is splendid for serving a few guests or a oversupply.

Note: This is my favorite hot chocolate recipe always!

Crockpot Hot Chocolate

Packets of Hot Cocoa Mix

The invention of the single-serve hot cocoa packets (envelope) made serving hot cocoa almost instant. In that location are various flavors and sugar-gratuitous options to offer your guests. Calculation some packs of saccharide-free hot cocoa is always a good idea.

You lot tin can serve hot milk from an insulated server or water in an electric kettle and permit guests to help themselves.

Sweetness Toppings

I like to start with a list of goodies. I would like to offering toppings and sugariness treats.

My must-accept toppings are mini marshmallows, chocolate and caramel sauce (bootleg recipe), whipping foam, chocolate bars (grated or chopped chocolate) or mini chocolate fries, and candy canes (chopped) or crushed peppermints. However, you can include any candies that melt.

Caramel Sauce

Hot Drink Station Set-Up Essentials

Your hot drinkable station could include hot chocolate, coffee, and tea if space permits. In the past, I have used a small section of the kitchen counter for a simple bar. I have likewise used the dining cafe for a more elaborate bar. For example, when my children were young, I used a vintage cabinet in my kitchen, only I have moved it to the living room or dining room.

Note: At that place could be spills, so I identify everything on trays.

Supplies

Assemble your recipes, a listing of goodies, and any display items needed. After you select the elements, you include on your bar, you lot will determine how to serve them. For example, I use mason jars and mini scoops for toppings—trays for cookies and other sweet treats.

If you don't have enough mugs, you can use newspaper cups with sleeves. I plant these ambrosial buffalo bank check coffee cups I include on my bar this twelvemonth.

• Mason Jars
• Scoops
• Labels
• Baker'due south Twine
• Sign
• Santa Mugs
• Napkins
• Spoons
• Ribbon
• Paper cups with lids and sleeves

This twelvemonth I used rustic and vintage items and buffalo check ribbons.

I used wood slices I cut from a fallen tree; therefore, they were free. All the vintage items I already owned, so no expense at that place either—all the stonemason jars I had on hand. I purchased the ribbon, and I made the cute labels.

The labels are available for y'all every bit a free download. In addition, I added a memo lath I made with a printable you lot can download to add together to your bar. You tin see it in the photo beneath.

Bulletin lath-cup of cheer

Hot Chocolate with marshmallows

If you take a dollar store in your surface area you lot tin can discover glass or ceramic mugs for a dollar or less. To add some festive fun to my apparently one-dollar mugs I added a vinyl decal Cheers.

DIY Decorations

The below photo includes the handmade Rae Dunn-inspired block signs (see this before mail most making them). Y'all tin can whip these upwards in a flash.

Rae Dunn inspired block signs

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Chalkboard Labels

Place all of your display items on the bar. Once you are happy with the display, please take off your jars, make full them with the goodies and tie your labels on with ribbon or baker's twine.

I taped construction paper effectually the whipped cream tin and added the label with the baker's twine. I added baker's twine to the vintage cookie cutters also.

Goodies Hot Cocoa Bar

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Hot Chocolate Bar Sign

While setting up your hot cocoa bar for Christmas, y'all tin can gather items you love, such as this Baby, it's common cold outside sign I fabricated a few years ago, only I love it, so I added it to the hot cocoa bar again this twelvemonth. Here is a like one you can order.

The hot chocolate bar block signs I made a few years (you lot can see how to brand one in this earlier post).

Baby Its cold outside sign

Vintage and rustic

More Hot Chocolate Bar Inspiration

 Set up a woodland-themed hot cocoa bar in a tiny corner on your kitchen counter. This elementary, minor-space hot cocoa bar is pretty enough to be the only Christmas decoration in a pocket-size kitchen too.

Hot Cocoa Bar

Elegant Hot Chocolate Bar includes hot cocoa bombs, dissimilar flavors of hot chocolate, and a cocoa sign that make this festive and pretty. It welcomes our guests to savor a hot drinkable at our hot chocolate bar.

Vintage hot chocolate bar

Bring some vacation cheer to your dwelling house by creating a festive and functional hot chocolate stand in your kitchen using a tiered tray and vintage Christmas decorations.

Archetype Hot Chocolate Bar

My sweet and talented daughter, Olivia, joined me this twelvemonth on the Hot Chocolate Bar tour. She has a ton of DIY ideas you do not want to miss.

DIY Hot Chocolate Bar

Over on The House on Silverado, my friend, Niky, shares setting up an developed and kid-friendly hot chocolate bar.

Fun Hot Chocolate Bar Idea

From Dwelling with Jemma, my friend Jemma e'er delights with her decorating, and so you are in for a special treat.

Hot Cocoa Bar Ideas

Lia's from Southern Yankee DIY'southward Hot Cocoa Bar. My friend Lia has been enjoying the south, but information technology got a wee flake chilly, so she prepare up her hot cocoa bar early on to warm upwardly, sipping hot cocoa in forepart of the burn down.

Southern Yankee DIY's Hot Cocoa Bar

Thank you for your visit today. I promise you found some sweet inspiration.

Happy Thanksgiving,

Kippi

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