Edible Chocolate Pine Cones | Beautiful Christmas Treat
Edible pine cones – chocolate pine cone. The holidays are around the corner and you are looking for a creative dessert to serve for Christmas or New Year’s Eve? This pine cone dessert is exactly what you need, beautiful, festive, delicious and easy to make dessert.
There is something magical about Christmas desserts. While most people usually make Christmas cookies, like butter cookies, snowflake cookies, and jam cookies, these options are great. However, I prefer making something more unique and special, and these chocolate pine cones are exactly that.
What Are Chocolate Pine Cones
Chocolate pine cones are a delightful and edible Christmas treat that brings festive charm to your dessert table. Made with a mixture of crushed biscuits, ground almonds, cocoa powder, and other simple ingredients, these treats are shaped into realistic pine cones and decorated with chocolate cereal for a unique and eye-catching presentation. Finished with a dusting of powdered sugar to resemble freshly fallen snow, chocolate pine cones are not only delicious but also a fun and creative dessert to make during the holiday season.
What Cereals Are Best for Making Chocolate Pinecones?
The best cereals for making chocolate pine cones are ones with a shell-like shape that resemble pine cone scales, such as Choco Shells or Chocapic Chocolate Cereal. These cereals are ideal because their curved, shell-like form creates a realistic pine cone texture. Their chocolate flavor also complements the dessert perfectly, enhancing the overall taste. Simply layer the cereal pieces onto the shaped mixture for a festive and eye-catching treat!
Common Questions
You can use plain biscuits like digestive biscuits, graham crackers, or tea biscuits for the base.
Technically, you can, but they won’t taste as great as on the day of preparation. To ensure the best flavor and texture, you want your cereals to be fresh and crispy, which might be lost if made too far in advance.
Yes, you can substitute ground almonds with an equal amount of finely ground oats or additional biscuit crumbs.
Dust them with powdered sugar before serving to mimic freshly fallen snow for an extra festive touch.
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Edible Chocolate Pine Cones | Beautiful Christmas Treat
Ingredients
- 8.8 oz (250 g) Biscuits
- 4 tablespoons (28 g) Ground almond
- 3 tablespoons (22 g) Cocoa powder
- 2-3 tablespoons Powdered sugar
- â…“ cup (75 g) Melted butter
- ½ cup (120 ml) Milk
- Chocolate cereal
- Powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- In a food processor or in a Ziploc bag, crush the biscuits into fine crumbs.
- Add ground almond, cocoa powder, powdered sugar and mix. Add melted butter, milk and mix well.
- Shape the mixture into pine cones as shown in the video. Then, decorate with chocolate cereal to create pine cones form as shown in the video.
- Before serving dust with powdered sugar.
Video
Notes
- Watch the Video: For a better understanding of the recipe, I always recommend watching the video recipe, which includes a step-by-step guide to help you succeed.
- FAQs: Make sure you read the FAQs for this recipe which are located above the recipe box for additional tips and troubleshooting! For extra tips and variations read the article.
Can’t wait to make these! One question, should you keep refrigerated after you make them?
Yes, keep them in airtight container in the fridge up to 3-4 days. Buy they are at their best at the day of preparation.
Hey, which biscuits are you using? Can’t wait to try this!
I used petit beurre, but you also can use digestive biscuits
Love this! Which cereal are you using?
These are lovely… what brand/type of cereal is best for the pine cone petals?
Please post details what kind of chocolate cereals.
I can’t tell the brand because I don’t know where are you from. Each country has different brands and names.
In many countries it’s called choco shells”. I suggest you to search it on Google.”
need a ” nut free ” recipe what can I use instead of ground almonds???
Use same amount of ground biscuits/cookies.
looks good now to get the choc buttons