Chocolate Trees

Chocolate Trees

Ingredients:
Pretzel sticks or pokey sticks
Bennetto Original Dark chocolate (60% cocoa)
Small chopped dried fruit and nuts (We used apricots, pistachios, cranberries and almonds)

Method:
  1. Melt chocolate over double boiler
  2. Lay pretzel/pokey sticks on baking paper about 4cm apart
  3. Place cooled chocolate into a green bio plastic bag and snip a tiny bit of the end
  4. Do a test patch on the baking paper to see whether the chocolate is firm enough. If so, pipe chocolate from top of the pretzel/pokey stick down, forming a tree
  5. Working quickly, sprinkle fruit and nuts over chocolate
  6. Place in fridge for 30 minutes maximum
Keep airtight either in the pantry for up to 3 weeks