Monday, April 11, 2011

Chocolate Salt Dough Easter Ornaments

With Easter coming up I thought we could try making CHOCOLATE salt dough ornaments with colored candy windows.  Of course, these are not edible!


I had used these crushed jolly ranchers before in Secret Message Decoder Cookies and Candy Heart Gingerbread Men, but I wasn't too fond of the jolly rancher stickiness {next time I will use lifesavers}.  So, I was thinking of ways to get rid of the extra candy and thought this would be perfect!

I changed my usual recipe {found here} by adding more salt and less flour in hopes that the ornaments would not rise and become puffy like they sometimes do - it worked out great!

Chocolate Salt Dough
2 cups salt
1 cup flour
1 cup cocoa
1 cup warm water
{you can always cut this recipe in half}

Mix dry ingredients together and add water to form dough.  Knead well.  Dust surface with cocoa and roll to a 1/4"-3/4" thickness.
 
Use your cookie cutters to cut out the large shape first.  Lift with a spatula and place ornament on a lightly sprayed, foil-lined cookie sheet.  Once large cut-out is on the foil then use a smaller cookie cutter or a bread knife to cut out a window pane.  Lift the window pane cut-out with a fork.  Remember to use a straw or chop stick to make a hole if you want to hang them with ribbon.

Bake at 250 F for about 45 minutes.

While the ornaments are baking, crush up your candies by putting them in a freezer bag and hitting with a rolling pin.

Once your ornaments are ready add your crushed candy and put back in the oven for another 5-8 minutes or until the candy is melted.

Let cool and gently lift and peel the ornament from the foil.

I love the way this chocolate Easter egg turned out!


We hung all our favorites from our mantle to decorate for the Easter season.


Have fun!


4 comments:

  1. Oh my! Those look good enough to eat!!!!! They look really pretty on the mantel piece too!

    Thanks for linking up to Kids Get Crafty :-)

    Maggy

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  2. They are so cool! Love the last chocolate egg too! Stopping by from Red Ted.

    Kerri

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  3. Love this! They are so pretty! I would love if you would link this up to Made by Little Hands Mondays!
    Thanks so much!
    Michelle
    www.delicateconstruction.blogspot.com
    Oh, and I featured you this week!

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  4. I love that you made these for Easter! How fun!!

    Thanks so much for sharing this at For the Kids Friday! I will be posting the next party tomorrow night. I'd love to have you back for more fun this week!

    :)rachel at http://SunScholars.blogspot.com

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