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Spruce up your annual holiday party this year with a Hot Cocoa Bar! The perfect treat to share with friends and family after some neighborhood caroling. A hot cocoa bar is easy to prepare and customize to your own tastes. Kids and adults will love adding their own candies and flavorings to their mugs of warm, chocolatey cocoa.
The first step is to mix up a batch of classic hot cocoa and keep it hot in a crock pot or large thermos pitcher during the party. You can buy a big batch of premade cocoa mix from your local grocery store, or try making your own recipe from scratch. Once the cocoa is made you can set up a table with mugs, straws, toppings and flavors.
Hot Cocoa Bar Toppings:
• Mini Marshmallows
• Chocolate Sprinkles
• Butterscotch chips
• Caramels
• Cinnamon candies
• Peppermint candy or candy canes
• Whipped ToppingMore Topping Ideas:
• Chocolate shavings
• Creamy Peanut Butter
• Nutella
• Crushed toffee bits
• M&M’s
• Chocolate or caramel syrup
• Ice cream
Make the night even more special by tying your own personalized favor tags to each mug. Custom coasters are a great addition to any party and make great favors too!
Set small bowls of each topping around the table. These free printable table tents in Frosty style are perfect for displaying in front of each bowl so guests know what each topping is.
For extra decoration for the table, print and frame this fun “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sign.
No party is complete without favors for guests to take home. Package up single serving packets of hot cocoa mix in small glassine envelopes and decorate with custom square and scallop shape labels. Invite guests to fill kraft paper favor bags with their favorite toppings of the night to take home and enjoy.
Used In This Project:
- Square Coasters • I chose the “Frosty” style in Mocha.
- Circle Tags • I chose the “Frosty” style in Mocha.
- Square Labels • I chose the “Frosty” style in Mocha.
- Scallop Labels • I chose the “Frosty” style in Mocha.
- Paper Favor Bags • I chose the medium size in Kraft.
- Glassine Envelopes • I chose the small size.
- Printable Table Tents • Download and print for free!
- “Baby It’s Cold Outside” Sign • Download and print for free!
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Rachel Beyer is an artist, designer and creative maker based in Portland, OR. She loves crafting, party planning and illustration. Rachel runs her own creative blog, Adventures In Making and also has a line of greeting cards, art prints and handmade goodies called Camp Smartypants.
Thanks for these ideas! I’m going to do this for our Christmas party 🙂
Amazing ideas actually, is always the small gift ideas that are so awesome! ;’)