SC - Chocolate spoon query (very OOP)

[Etain1263 at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/29/00 2:39:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
stefan at texas.net writes:

<< But what are you supposed to *do* with them??? ..... Use it to stir your 
hot chocolate or coffee, so the chocolate melts off in the drink? ..... it 
looks like some of the plastic is still bare at the end of the handle>>

Bingo!  You use them to stir your coffee (and if you are in the habit of 
making up instant cocoa mix with coffee like I am....this is similar).  You 
only dip the spoon in to cover the bowl...not the handle. I think the "half 
dip" is just for decoration.  You could also press a pre-made royal icing 
flower into the still soft chocolate in the bowl of the spoon before it 
hardens for a more "decorative" effect.  The cellophane "lollypop" wrappers 
that Wilton sells work very well as covers...tie a nice ribbon around the 
handle to close it...and voila!  A lovely gift for the chocoholic, and very 
easy to make! If you wish to be really expansive...fit as many as you can 
(handle side down) in a mug as the gift.  The spoons will look like a bouquet 
(of sorts)

Etain