Hi, good morning, welcome to classy classics by Kandis. I hope you had a good week.
Have you started decorating for Christmas yet?
Did you get a chance to look at last week’s blog all about the holiday prep that is started in the house.
It is been getting fun here. More and more decorations come out. More and more talk about Christmas and more and more Christmas presents are being bought and being hid.
One of my favourite parts about my decorations is our hot chocolate station that I started couple years ago for the kids. They love it they ask for it every year. And as much as I love giving it to them, I also don’t like giving it to them because then I fight with them of what only really wanting to have hot chocolate. With how the world is this year, and the uncertainty of how Christmas is I thought why not just go ahead and do an awesome hot chocolate station. There’s enough chores outside that they can go and do some to come in to get warmed up with some hot chocolate.
I thought I would take you along and show you how I setup my hot chocolate and coffee station this year!
I added a couple things. Didn’t put a couple things on but it’s still as cute.
Do you do a hot chocolate station?
Have you ever wanted one?
How is yours setup?
I just used a bunch of old Christmas decorations that were handed down and some really cute tins.
I was never really sure what to put in them until I realized that the perfect hot chocolate station would go great with these cute little tins.
If you are ready let’s go and talk about the hot chocolate station.
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So for the start of my hot chocolate station, I have this really cute Santa tray, I have these three tins that are different sizes that fit into each other and these work great for all the little hot chocolate knick knacks!
In one of them in the large one I usually add a bag so it doesn’t get as dirty, and I fill it with hot chocolate mix. I also do it this way because I buy my hot chocolate from the Bulk Bard because you can get more for less. Unfortunately when I had went to the first Balk Barn that I was going to they were out of hot chocolate. All three containers of the hot chocolate was completely empty! That’s okay, I will head up a different Bulk Barn next time I’m in a different city. I will get the hot chocolate for the kiddos.
Another thing you could use is those individual baggies of the really cute flavors of hot chocolate you can definitely pick up a couple of those, put those out on your tray so you could have a variety of hot chocolate. If you wanted instead of just hot chocolate.
So then the middle sized one, I have 1 for mini marshmallows! Can’t have hot chocolate without mini marshmallows, right?
There is then the mini one that I have, that’s the one that I use for candy canes and peppermint candies because you can’t have a fun Christmas hot chocolate without mini marshmallows and candy cane!
Right?
This is at least what I have been informed for my children after I started doing this.
This year I went and bought some chocolate covered coffee beans for the husband and myself. I’m not sure where to put these on with them on the tray because they are cute and they’re coffee except for I can’t have the kids getting into them because they are coffee beans, so I might just try to find a cute little container to put some on the tray.
I also added some tea bags that are some of my favourite teas and some of the kids favorite tea. I drink red rose and green tea and my kids love peach mango right now and spiced apple. It honestly taste just like an apple pie, it’s delicious.
Another thing that I am adding is a couple packs of instant coffee. Now before you like get totally devastated. I do not drink what I call “fake” coffee. I do not drink decaf coffee, or instant. I am the one that don’t drink coffee all day everyday and I’m okay with that.
So when I got handed some packs of instant coffee to try I laughed at my friend and he told me just to try them so I tried one and you know what it was really good. When I happen to be down Walmart, I have found a pack and you know a box of these were only like 6 bucks. So I grabbed the box because y’all late nights, or when I know I shouldn’t be having another pot of coffee and I just want to have a nice cup of coffee. Boil some water and whatever then I can just have a quick cup of instant coffee. The stuff that I bought was French vanilla and it really is good.
I would also like to get out some coffee stir sticks out and put them on the tray. For anybody who’s making a cup, I usually put the cups on the tray to we all have our own Christmas cups, but with trying to get at least 6 cups, if not more out onto a tray is crazy and it seems really cluttered.
So this year I just pulled some of my cups in the cupboard out and I added our coffee cups into the cupboard so that we didn’t have all of these cute breakable Christmas cups all over the counter. My toddler right now is all into sitting on the counter all the time, this is a reason why one I wanted the coffee beans put into a container, but also why I wasn’t sure if I should have our Christmas cups out on the counter! So there you have it! That’s my hot chocolate and coffee station.
I also have this other Santa platter that is really cute with Santa fishing! On this one, I’m leaving in a little more simple. I have this Christmas tree platter that I always put my mints on that I make for Christmas and so this year before I get my mints done, I’ve just been putting little treats on.
I bought banana chips and some chocolate covered pretzels and stuff, I have just been putting those on there.
I have a couple napkins in this really cute Santa holder! It’s actually a plant holder like a pot! I don’t have a plant that’s actually that small that I could put into their just for the Christmas season. So I just have a bag and I have some red and green napkins in it.
I also have this cute candle on it is now the candle has never been lite, that really bugs one of my kids because he’s all about lighting candles. But it’s more for decoration because it’s just this cute little wrapped looking present so I think it looks really cute beside the snack tree.
After I get some cookies done, I’ll maybe have a couple cookies on there. But my cookies go into my snowman cookie jar here, and it’s really cute because you can turn the lid and it says full and empty so I can either trick the kids into leaving my cookies alone, or they know to let me know or to fill it up when it gets empty.
This is also kind of a problem because the kids tend to go through a lot of cookies when the cookie jar is always full.
The other cookie jar that I have here. I didn’t use just as a decoration this year,I actually went ahead and put parchment paper in it and I was keeping our Christmas oranges in it. It was really cute that way it works out really really cute. So I think I’m going to stick with that one and get some more Christmas oranges.
My kids are all about Christmas oranges at this time. I assume it’s because they can peel themselves and they’re just small and cute and super sweet and I only buy them at Christmas time! Do you remember when you were little and you could only get them at Christmas time? It was like the best Christmas trear ever! I don’t understand how all those things you can get Christmas oranges all year round!
Well that’ll probably wrap up the blog for my hot chocolate and coffee station!
What did you think?
Do you have a hot chocolate station?
They are really easy to make, you can use anything that you have in your house. You can just as easily go to the Dollar Tree and for as little as $5, you can have your own super cute hot chocolate station made.
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