These cute, fun, festive little hot chocolate stir sticks are the perfect sweet treat to enjoy this holiday season.

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These cute, fun, festive little hot chocolate stir sticks are the perfect sweet treat to enjoy this holiday season.
What are Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks?
Ingredients for Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks
How to Make Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks
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These cute, fun, festive little hot chocolate stir sticks are the perfect sweet treat to enjoy this holiday season.

Homemade, delicious hot chocolate stir sticks are the best dessert idea to enjoy for Christmas. They're a great handmade gift idea or an excellent treat to serve your family and friends at a holiday party.

You can combine lots of flavors to create a unique and special hot chocolate drink. Our favorites include chocolates -- think dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate! -- along with caramels, salts, peppermint and marshmallows for a truly wonderful taste.

Pop them on a stick or spoon and get ready to stir into your hot chocolate for an incredible experience for your taste buds and eyes!

If you know me, you know that I love Christmas and everything the holiday season has to offer.

My celebrating starts at the stroke of midnight on November 1 because I want to capture every moment of magic the season brings!

Oh, yes - I'm one of those gals that listens to Christmas music when it's still fall outside, I prematurely decorate for Christmas and I watch holiday movies all year long.

On any given evening in December, you'll find me curled up by the Christmas tree, with the fire place going, my knitting in hand as I enjoy watching a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Nevermind that they all the exact same plot. I will get sucked into that story and enjoy every second of it.

In the middle of all this, I spend even more time in the kitchen than I do during the rest of the year. There are certain favorite treats that we only make during the holidays and I want to make all.of.them for my family.

Does your family have any recipes like this? The delicious, easy, homemade favorites that have been handed down from mom, grandma or aunties?

My mom bakes these chocolate sugar cookies each Christmas that she only makes at Christmas. She makes me a double batch. I savor every single morsel of them. They're incredible!

Of course, along with the family favorites, I like to try new recipes and create new traditions for us to enjoy as well.

This year, I'm getting into hot chocolate stir sticks.

What are Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks?

I'm glad you asked. I feel like anything chocolate related is definitely 100% necessary to know about.

Hot chocolate stir sticks can be made with a variety of chocolates and toppings. You can use mini wooden spoons, cake pop sticks or even peppermint sticks to build your treat.

You'll coat your desired vessel with melted chocolate and then top with treats. You could used crushed peppermints, other types of chocolate, sprinkles, mini marshmallows.... really, there are lots of ideas!

Once done, they melt into hot milk for a delicious and easy treat that has limitless flavor possibilities.

A terrific option for gifting or to serve while hosting a party, they're fun to make as a family as well. My guys love helping out in the kitchen and coming up with lots of flavor concoctions to try out.

Not all the flavors are ones I would want to share with guests, but fun for them to try out nonetheless. 😉

Ready to get started? Good!

Ingredients for Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks

I'll give you the basic idea today and then you can add on with other toppings if you'd like. For these hot cocoa stir sticks I used the following:

1 package white almond bark
1 package chocolate flavored almond bark
2 cups Peppermint chips*
1 jar dehydrated mini marshmallows**
50 6 inch cake pop sticks
parchment paper

Tips for Making This Recipe

*For the peppermint chips, I lucked out to find pre-crushed peppermint chips in a jar but you can also crush starlight mints and use instead.

**These are mini dehydrated marshmallows. You can find them in a jar with the hot chocolate. I'm sure you can find them on their own somehow too... but I used what came with the mix.

How to Make Hot Chocolate Stir Sticks

Now that you've got all your goodies, let's get started on the deliciousness!

Place almond bark in separate 16-ounce mason jars (white in one, chocolate in another).

Melt in the microwave on high for 1 minute. Remove and stir. Continue microwaving until completely melted.

chocolate covered sticks laying on crushed peppermint

On a piece of parchment paper, spread a layer of the peppermint chips and marshmallows. (You can mix them or keep them separate if you want to do stir sticks that just have marshmallows).

Dip the sticks into the melted almond bark and place on top of the layer of peppermint chips and marshmallows. Then, sprinkle more on top and let sit until the coating firms.

Stir sticks for hot chocolate laying on table

Repeat until all the sticks are done.

Serve with your favorite hot chocolate.

Hot chocolate overhead shot with stir stick melting in mug

This simple treat is a breeze to put together. And I'm sure my boys felt like mad scientist while melting the chocolates and pouring them out.

I'm packaging some up in cellophane treat bags to gift and keeping some at home for our coming holiday entertaining.

Hopefully I'll have time to make another batch before Christmas, with even more varieties included. The boys suggested a dash of caramel and I'd love to see how it turns out when included!

I hope that you and yours enjoy these hot chocolate stir sticks -- and all the magic of Christmas!