FROM HERSHEY’S

These Homemade Holiday Hot Chocolate Gifts let you pick your favorite: the reindeer or snowman…or both. All the recipient needs to do is add milk and it’s magically a warm celebration for a chilly evening.

YOU’LL NEED

Measuring spoons and cups

Icing piping bags (2 per gift)

Scissors

Tape

Glue dots

Red or white ribbon

Printable Recipe Gift Tags (CLICK HERE)

Hole punch

SUPPLIES FOR THE REINDEER (HERSHEY’S Hot Cocoa for One)

1 tablespoon HERSHEY’S Cocoa

2 tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

HERSHEY’S KISSES Candies (red foils)

1/8 cup HERSHEY’S Baking Chips (Milk Chocolate, Semi-Sweet or HEATH BITS O’ BRICKLE Milk Chocolate English Toffee Bits)

1/4 cup mini marshmallows

HERSHEY’S Chocolate Mint Candy Canes (2 per gift)

Hot glue gun and hot glue

Googly eyes

SUPPLIES FOR THE SNOWMAN (HERSHEY’S White Peppermint Hot Chocolate)

1/4 HERSHEY’S Chocolate Mint Candy Canes (1/4 candy cane per gift)

1/3 cup HERSHEY’S Premier White Creme Chips

1/4 cup mini marshmallows

HERSHEY’S Milk Chocolate Bar (1 per gift)

Black buttons (6 per gift)

Orange pipe cleaner

DIRECTIONS

FOR THE REINDEER

1.Mix cocoa, sugar, and salt and place into a piping bag.

2.Trim off excess, fold down the plastic, and secure with tape.

3.In the second piping bag, add a red HERSHEY’S KISSES Candy, tip down. Put the cocoa mix bag on top.

4.Add a layer of baking chips (any flavor you’d like) and a layer of mini marshmallows, leaving enough room (about 3 to 4 inches) to secure the bag.

5.Tie your bag closed with ribbon and trim off any excess plastic at the top of the piping bag.

6.Add the antlers by securing two candy canes with a dab of hot glue. Then add two googly eyes.

7.CLICK HERE to print the gift tags and punch a hole at the top. Thread a gift tag onto the ribbon and tie another knot to secure. Make additional gift bags.

FOR THE SNOWMAN

1.Crush 1/4 of a candy cane and place into a piping bag. Add a layer of white creme chips.

2.Trim off excess, fold down the plastic and secure with tape.

3.In the second piping bag, add the candy cane/chips bag.

4.Add a layer of mini marshmallows. Break a HERSHEY’S Bar into quarters. Stack two 3-pip sections on top of the marshmallows, then add two 2-pip sections on top. Eat the other two pips!

5.Tie your bag closed with ribbon and trim off any excess plastic at the top of the piping bag

6.Secure button eyes and mouth with glue dots. Shape an orange pipe cleaner into a triangle nose shape and secure with glue dots.

7.CLICK HERE to print the gift tags and punch a hole at the top. Thread a gift tag onto the ribbon and tie another knot to secure. Make additional gift bags.

TIP: If your recipient is a chocolate and peanut butter fan, make your reindeer with REESE’S Peanut Butter Chips. 

Find this craft and more holiday fun at hersheyland.com