Share with Cadbury your homemade chocolate gift ideas - chance to win £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

Christmas is just around the corner which for many means the present lists are out and shopping mode is on. Thinking of what special gifts to get for everyone can be quite a task, however good old homemade treats often spread Christmas joy the most. Cadbury would like to know your homemade gift ideas using chocolate.

Do you create little Christmas chocolate hampers or gift bags? Perhaps you bake a chocolate cake and use individual chocolates or crumbled Flake or Crunchie as decoration? Or maybe you melt your favourite Cadbury chocolate and turn it into lollipops or transform it into your own bespoke chocolate bark to hand out?

Whatever your homemade chocolate gift ideas, share them on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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We usually bake cake pops in our machine and cover them in melted chocolate. The kids love decorating with colourful star shaped sprinkles and then once cooled and set, they are bagged up in sets of 6 with ribbons around the sticks, for distribution to the neighbours.

Ds has done pepprermint bark for his teachers for a couple of years now. Layer of melted dark chocolate in foil tray, layer of melted white chocolate, with peppermint essence dripped into it, on top and smashed up candy canes on top of that whilst still hot. Put the candy canes in a food bag and seal before smashing or spend months getting bits out of your carpet . Leave to set.

We bag it up in chunks and it's easy to up the quantity for extra teachers. DS tells me we're making it for 5 teachers / TAs this year including breakfast club. You can add other bits, silver balls, sugar stars etc. if you want more sparkle.

It's easy enough for a 6-7 year old to help with and then slowly take over more parts as they get older.

I’m doing loads this year...
Chocolate mousse truffles
Chocolate dipped pretzels
Chocolate turtles
White chocolate bark with nuts, cranberries
Millionaires shortbread
Hot chcolate reindeers for kids
Plus baking a chocolate cake to take to a Christmas party!
It’s fair to say I like chocolate!

Chocolate truffles to share with everyone in the office:

1 (200g) tub cream cheese, softened
350g icing sugar, sifted
500g plain chocolate, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Mix all the ingredients together (making sure the melted chocolate is not too hot), chill it for about 30 mins. Make ball shapes and roll in icing sugar. Leave in fridge overnight. Take into office to be demolished in seconds!

I've made very easy chocolate and marshmallow truffles before and they've been a hit. Not too much trouble to make and easy to wrap up and look fancy!

With reindeer cutters, melt some chocolate and pour into to make reindeer shaped chocolates

Peppermint creams dipped in Chocolate

I made homemade chocolate truffles for my friends birthday and boxed them up beautifully. Each set of truffles had a different coating and they looked fab. The truffles were really appreciated and were gone in a flash !

Chocolate

I like to get nursery workers etc a gift voucher, but we choose them a mug as well and fill it with wrapped chocolates and hot chocolate

I have made chocolate bars with crushed walnuts or pistachios... Simply heaven! :D

I make my own raw organic chocolate, I use a lot of raw organic products in my baking too

I make chocolate truffles in various flavours every year for the family. My favourite flavour is coffee! Yum!

Fruit dipped in chocolate is a favourite in our house.

My kids literally prefer cornflake cakes to anything! there so easy so i am happy with that they even make them themselves while i watch them!

Home made chocolate truffles with glace cherries and coconut using proper chocolate not Cadbury's

I am by no means a domestic goddess! My skillsonly extend to melting chocolate in the microvave and half dipping (shop bought)shortbread. Et voila!!

I always bake peppermint slices to give as gifts and I make my own gift boxes for them too! I also serve them after dinner, as a sort of home made after dinner mint!

Its really good fun to use plastic moulds to make Christmassy figures and then wrap them in coloured foil and make decorations for the tree!

We make tiny pastry tarts, pop a Choco in each one, a marshmallow on top and then bake. A great tiny treat!

I like to make Chocolate Truffles - they're super easy to make, look and taste great - make an excellent gift.

I make my own marzipan sweets for Christmas gifts - usually incorporating cranberries and orange rind. So quick and easy to make, and especially nice when I roll each sweet in melted chocolate!

Chocolate mars bar cake! Yum!

I use ice cube trays to make my own chocolate chunks, melted chocolate pop it to coat the cube, stick in any ingredient (fruit, honeycomb) then top with chocolate

Chocolate rice crispy cakes made to look like Christmas Puddings and Marshmallow stacked ontop of eachother, dipped in White chocolate and decorated to look like snowmen (strawberry lace scarf, chocolate drop eyes)