Chocolate Fountain Ideas

There would hardly be anyone in the world who would not be loving chocolate! This is especially true for the fairer sex! You may try but you may be in for tough luck! Never mind, the point is that it is absolutely irresistible. Further, I cannot resist except temptation! To add to it, as if the Swiss chocolates and the Hershey's kisses were not enough for chocolate maniacs, recent addition to the 'chocolaty' bandwagon, there are fountains to make us lovers go crazier! It is basically melted, liquid chocolate oozing out in a fountain-like shape. It is a constant hit at occasions at parties, weddings or any kind of celebration. It is absolutely yummy and tantalizing. It is perfect for dipping fruits like marshmallows and strawberries or simply on a plain vanilla ice cream!

For Appetizers
Wow! I am already smacking my lips! Okay, my oozing and flowing emotions notwithstanding, there is a caboodle of appetizer ideas to go with chocolate. To begin with, there are these delicious fruits like marsh mellows, strawberries, pineapple, cherries and blue berries. Another thing you can dig into are cereal bars! Cereal bars are perfect for dipping into the fountain. Plain pound cake or cup cakes and cookies too make for fabulous appetizers to team with chocolate. If all this is not enough, you have donuts, waffles,brownies or even potato chips are great appetizers which can add the zing to the flowing chocolate! Carrots or even celery sticks are good to dig in. Just innovate and think of what can fit well with the warm liquid chocolate and you can have many more dipping ideas!

For Kids
Visual effects immediately attracts the attention of the children. For them it is the color the chocolate! Normally people go for milk chocolate, but if you ask for, you may get green lemon or pink or the likes. If it is possible, try to check out how different colors mix together when they melt and incorporate that color in the fountain. Well, that was about the color. Further, you can have nice, flavored chocolate for kids. You can have fruits mentioned above for the flavor or dry fruits, or even mint and coffee to make it more palatable. Nachos, graham crackers and peanut butter cookies for teaming up with the chocolate can be an instant hit with the kids.

Some More Ideas
Quite a few times if you ask, the suppliers do have different types of chocolate like Belgian or even caramel or any other kind of melted dips are available. Apart from this, one of the out-of-box food ideas is to keep it with a barbecue. It is a perfect for outdoor venues. Add bread sticks, pretzels, tortilla chips to the ensemble and what you get is a fabulous party or get together!

Eventually, all this is fine, but you need to keep in mind that it is always advisable to have a professional to tend to the fountain. This will involve ensuring that the area around the fountain is clean, the chocolate is flowing properly and overall maintenance of the set up is proper. Also, consider keeping toothpicks, forks and skewers for the guests to facilitate a mess-free dipping in the fountain.

Try out these things and innovate and you would find that there is no dearth of amazing things to dip in the chocolate fountain!

Have a melting hot time eating chocolate!