Chocolate Covered Christmas Spoons

For Christmas this year, I made my coworkers personalized etched glass mugs, and filled them with teas, hot chocolate, and cappuccino.  To make it better, I thought I'd include some chocolate covered spoons, for stirring tasty drinks!

To start, I melted Baker's semi-sweet chocolate squares in the microwave.  Next, I dipped spoons into the chocolate and set it on wax paper to dry.  It took forever to dry and left an ugly pool of chocolate under the spoon. 

It occurred to me that it was below freezing outside, so I dipped a few more and walked outside.  In a few seconds the chocolate began hardening onto the spoon!

 

(You can see the ones on the end are still wet, they took about 45 minutes to dry!)

 

Next, I put a few squares of white chocolate into Ziploc bags and melted that in the microwave.  I snipped off a tiny bit of a corner and decorated the spoons! (Try to get all of the air out of the bag before squeezing.)

 

 

Now that these are finished, I can add them to the personalized mugs I made for my coworkers!