Homemade chocolates ideas please!

[reasysteady]

My DS10 wants to make some homemade chocolates as a pre-Christmas activity.
I have some mounds that a friend is lending me, but no ideas for recipes - a lot of the ones online are too sophisticated and long winded, I need something reasonably quick and fun.
Anyone got any good ideas for us?
Thanks!

Nutella is always a favourite. Also ganache (chocolate melted with hot double cream) with something else added for flavour or texture. I'd go for booze myself but appreciate that isn't appropriate for a 10 year old, so how about popping candy, raisins, glacé cherries, coffee, orange extract, crystallised ginger - good with dark ganache and lemon extract is good with white chocolate ganache. It's a good carrier for lots of flavours and is nice just plain too.

Fondant is also a possibility, again with flavourings and colours - bit sweet for my taste, but a 10 year old might like that.

Something like melted snowmen are easy to do... and quite cute too 😂 if you google it heaps come up but here's the first one I link for a recipe across www.easycheesyvegetarian.com/melted-chocolate-snowmen/

We’ve used the Terry’s chocolate orange truffle recipe on Jane’s Patisserie and this maple almond recipe www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/desserts/almond-maple-truffles

Chocolate bark. Take some peppermint flavoured candy canes, bash into pieces and leave on one side. Melt a large 360g bar of milk chocolate, stir some of the candy cane pieces in and turn out onto a baking tray lined with tinfoil (if no baking tray place tinfoil on top of work surface). Sprinkle remaining candy cane pieces on top straight away and when set break into pieces.

Peppermint creams?

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/peppermint_creams_00124

You can do a caramel filling using a can of dulce de leche (beside the cans of condensed milk). Add a tiny bit of salt for salted caramels.

Equal parts chocolate and cream or chocolate and condensed milk will give a ganache/truffle textures. If you use tinker one as the chocolate you get those interesting chewy almond bits.

Really easy is to put chocolate in moulds and then add a selection of textures like crunchy/skittles/jelly snakes/jelly tots. We call this chocolate compost in our house and get requests for a slab every Christmas.