Hot Chocolate on a stick makes a festive gift, and here are four cute ways to wrap it up!

Hot chocolate on a stick makes the cutest homemade edible gift to give this time of year. For years I’ve wanted to make this. There’s just something so cute about homemade marshmallows cut into chunky squares. Today we’re sharing a bunch of festive ways to wrap up this sweet treat to give, and a fool proof method to make homemade marshmallows with ease.

If you plan to give these to kids, they’ll probably love them wrapped up like Rudolph (see photo above).

How to enjoy Hot Chocolate on a Stick:

If you’re not familiar with Hot Chocolate on a stick, it’s a fun way to give the gift of hot chocolate. Just warm up a big mug full of milk (about 8 oz.) and then just dip and stir the hot chocolate stick all around in the milk, and it will soon be the most creamy delicious hot chocolate.

What you need to make Hot Chocolate on a stick:

For the Chocolate:
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk 14oz.
1/2 cup heavy cream
For the Marshmallows:
* 1/2 cup water
* 3 packets unflavored gelatin 1/4oz. each
* 2 cups sugar
* 2/3 cup corn syrup
* 1/4 cup water
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

How to make Homemade Hot Chocolate on a Stick:

For the Chocolate:

In a medium sauce pan on medium low heat add the sweetened condensed milk and cream and stir until it starts to steam. Continue stirring the mixture as it starts to bubble. Remove from heat and pour in all the chocolate chips. Stir and let it sit for 10 minutes or so to allow the chocolate chips to melt. Whisk together until chocolate is completely melted and combined.
Pour the chocolate into the parchment lined pan and spread it evenly. Let sit in the fridge overnight until set.
Remove the chocolate brick from pan by pulling up on the parchment.
Cut chocolate into one inch squares. Using a hot knife to cut through the chocolate. As the knife gets messy, you can run it under hot water and dry it off with a paper towel as you go. Makes 36 squares.

For the Marshmallows:

Line a 9-by-9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, and gently brush it with canola oil.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, sprinkle the gelatin over 1/2 cup cold water; let stand for 10 minutes to allow the gelatin to bloom.
In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and 1/4 cup water. Place saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Boil rapidly for 1 minute, then remove from the heat.
With the mixer on high, slowly pour the boiling syrup down the inside of the mixing bowl into the gelatin mixture. Add the salt and vanilla and continue mixing for 10 to 12 minutes.
Brush oil onto a rubber spatula. Pour the fluffy marshmallow mixture evenly into the prepared lined pan. Cover with more parchment paper that has been brushed with oil. Let sit at room temperature for 2 hours.
Remove the marshmallows carefully from the pan. Place marshmallows on a cutting board covered with powdered sugar. Brush knife with oil to prepare for cutting the marshmallows. Cut marshmallows into 1-2-inch squares (depending on the size you desire). Place marshmallow squares one at a time into a bowl with powdered sugar. Toss each marshmallow with powdered sugar until well coated. Marshmallows will keep for a few weeks in an airtight container.

It’s hard to justify making homemade marshmallows at home, when they’re so inexpensive to buy at the store…BUT here’s why you should…they taste so much better! You can add in flavors to really customize them, like vanilla or peppermint. Plus you can cut them into any shape you’d like with cookie cutters, or even just simple cute squares.

They last for a few weeks in an air tight container, so you can enjoy them for a little longer.

Variations:

You really can customize these to make them your own. We rolled a few of the homemade marshmallows in crushed candy canes, and they were so good! You can flavor the homemade marshmallows in so many different ways. If you choose to just make the chocolate part of the recipe, you can top them with all sorts of fun things, like: sprinkles, toffee bits, mini marshmallows…whatever you like in hot chocolate!

With or without Homemade Marshmallows:

If you’re not up for making homemade marshmallows, you can still make the chocolate part of this hot chocolate on a stick. A fun option is to top these with those crunchy little mallow bits, they turned out really cute!

Watch the How To video:

We made a little video so you can see just how to make these at home.

Hot Chocolate on a Stick

Homemade Hot chocolate on a stick perfect for sweet treats to give to friends and family.

Author Kami | NoBiggie.net

Ingredients

For the Chocolate:

1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 14oz. can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup heavy cream

For the Marshmallows:

1/2 cup water
3 1/4oz. packets unflavored gelatin
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

For the Chocolate:

In a medium sauce pan on medium low heat add the sweetened condensed milk and cream and stir until it starts to steam. Continue stirring the mixture as it starts to bubble. Remove from heat and pour in all the chocolate chips. Stir and let it sit for 10 minutes or so to allow the chocolate chips to melt. Whisk together until chocolate is completely melted and combined.
Pour the chocolate into a parchment lined 9x9 size pan and spread it evenly. Let sit in the fridge overnight until set.
Remove the chocolate brick from the pan by pulling up on the parchment.
Cut the chocolate into one inch squares. Using a hot knife to cut through the chocolate. As the knife gets messy, you can run it under hot water and dry it off with a paper towel as you go. Makes 36 squares.

For the Marshmallows:

Line a 9-by-9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, and gently brush it with canola oil.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, sprinkle the gelatin over 1/2 cup cold water; let stand for 10 minutes to allow the gelatin to bloom.
In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, and 1/4 cup water. Place saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Boil rapidly for 1 minute, then remove from the heat.
With the mixer on high, slowly pour the boiling syrup down the inside of the mixing bowl into the gelatin mixture. Add the salt and vanilla and continue mixing for 10 to 12 minutes.
Brush oil onto a rubber spatula. Pour the fluffy marshmallow mixture evenly into the prepared lined pan. Cover with more parchment paper that has been brushed with oil. Let sit at room temperature for 2 hours.
Remove the marshmallows carefully from the pan. Place the marshmallows on a cutting board covered with powdered sugar. Brush knife with oil to prepare for cutting the marshmallows. Cut marshmallows into 1-2-inch squares (depending on the size you desire). Place marshmallow squares one at a time into a bowl with powdered sugar. Toss each marshmallow with powdered sugar until well coated. Marshmallows will keep for a few weeks in an airtight container.

Bring the two together:

Set up an assembly line with the marshmallow squares and the chocolate squares. Add a marshmallow square and a chocolate square to each stick. Wrap them up individually with cellophane and twine to give as gifts.

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Wrap it up Cute:

Okay…now for the fun part…Wrap them up CUTE! With a simple brown pipe cleaner, googley eyes, and a red pom pom for a nose, you can make a bunch of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

Or Hot Chocolate straight from the North Pole!

Red and white striped straws cut in half and also cut up the side to slide over the skinny wooden stick, help make a little “North Pole” tag out of red tickets with hand written sharpie letters, wrapped up with red and white bakers twice and cellophane.

You can keep it simple:

or grab one of the festive printable gift tags we have shared here over the years like: Baby it’s Cold Outside printable tag

Santa’s Candy Shoppe:

Lump of Coal printable gift tag:

The Vintage Santa gift tag:

Have a Cup of Cheer gift tag:

Or my personal favorite from Home Alone: “Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal” sweater gift tag.

It’s a fun edible gift to make and give.

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Do you love to give sweet treats this time of year too?