CHOCOLATE FONDUE – Day 139 of P365

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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketOne of my friends was telling me about the chocolate fondue she served at her dd’s birthday party. It sounded like SO MUCH fun that we decided to do this at our dd’s graduation party.

Of course, we *had* to give it a try before the party (LOL). We discovered that you do *not* need to use the expensive chocolate chips that are made specifically for the fountains. We used Kirkland brand chocolate chips from Costco and as you can see above, they worked just fine! Since Tim’s mom was in charge of the chocolate fondue table at the graduation party, she came up to give it a try to make sure she knew how long to heat the chips in the microwave, how many batches to have going, etc. Below she and Emily are pleased with how well it worked!

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Amanda came home after the choclate was going and she gave it a thumbs up! YUM YUM!
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The girls had fun taste testing all sorts of things … marshmellows, cinnamon bears, swedish fish, angel food cake, fruit, vanilla wafers, and MORE!

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Here is what the fondue table looked like at the graduation party. I’ll post this picture now instead of down further in this series of blog entries. We had wooden skewers in a glass jar beside the chocolate fountain. People loaded whatever variety of things they wanted onto the skewer and then ran the whole thing under the flowing chocolate! It was a HIT! Old and young alike had a great time standing around the chocolate fountain!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at PhotobucketLesliAnn, thanks much for the idea and for making arrangements for us to borrow the chocolate fountain! We really appreciate your help!

Truly impressive. Is THIS what those little “fondue fountains” are in the stores? Or can you rent a BIG one like this? This looks like great fun for one of our ladies events.

Amy,
I LOVE it… nothing says congratulations like chocolate.. sounds like a greeting card suggestion to me!

Dorothy,
I’ll say it was “sociable.” There were ALWAYS several people mingling around the fondue fountain!

DeEtta,
This is the kind that you see at Target or Linens and THings for around $40. It would make a GREAT women’s event thing, imo.

Did you buy this or is it something you rent? Very clever to try it out in advance to see how it works. Of course, it was especially helpful of the girls to taste test in advance as well. Ha!

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