My son's Rock Star themed 2nd Birthday!

My son's birthday was last weekend. I decided last year that I wanted a rockstar theme! My husband plays the drums and has been in rock bands since he was 15. Gianluca, my son, has his daddy's drumming skills! I made the invitations myself and asked everyone to come to Gianluca's Birthday Gig. I also mentioned to call Gianluca's manage to get on the VIP list. As you approached my house you noticed a red carpet and a rather tall man standing outside my door with a list. The tall man was my brother in law and he asked everyone for ID as they walked through the door and checked their name off the list. He enjoyed the role and was kidding around with everyone. I went simple with the food, since its only a kid's bday party. I had a Gourmet Hotdog and Burger bar with all the toppings. 

For the dessert, my favorite part, I made black and red star lolly pops with an edible silver dusting over them, I also made black and red chocolate cake pops! I made a styrofoam platter that I painted "YOU ROCK" on, so as the guests took a cake pop they slowly revealed the saying. My final project was a guitar shaped cake.  My mom made red velvet whoopie pies, rocky road chocolate and layered jello. My favorite part was the DELICIOUS vanilla cupcakes that we got from Live.Love.Cupcakes. Megan is a great friend of mine and we teamed up to make my son's cupcakes. She made Vanilla cupcakes with Vanilla butter cream in silver wrappers. I made the chocolate star for the top. 

Here are a few photos from the party. 

 Cake Pops and Lolly pops

Close up of the cake pops so you could see the silver dusting

Cupcakes from Live.Love.Cupcakes. with stars from Chocolate Covered World! 

Oscar the grouch and a Bumble Bee!

I am having A LOT of fun making these Cake pops!! My neighbors are going to love me because there is no way we could eat them all so I'll be handing them out later today! lol

Oscar the Grouch Cake Pop

Here is a bumble bee and a flower (the flower is a regular chocolate lollypop, the bumble bee is a Cake pop) 

We have CAKE POPS!!

So I decided to attempt making cake pops. A friend of mine is having a Sesame Street themed first birthday for her little boy in August. Cake pops are every where and thought to myself "I can do that" so here is my first attempt EVER with cake pops and decided to get a little fancy (I know, very brave move!)

Not only are they adorable, but they are DELICIOUS TOO!

ELMO CAKE POPS!

Tis' the season for Communions, Confirmations and Christenings too!!

A friend of mine made a request for something special for her beautiful little girl's Christening... Here are chocolate Cross Lollypops with a gold shimmer dusting that looks GORGEOUS in person and can hardly be seen in the picture..... For my  god son's baptism a few years back I did these in Blue and White and I also put the gold shimmer dusting. I put them in really pretty basket and added chocolate flowers here and there.... Unfortunately I didnt take any pictures but here are the crosses I just made and I just put them in the flower pot so you can an idea....

I tried to get a picture of the shimmer... you can kinda see it here... 

Pricing:

1 color Cross Lolly pop (with dusting) - $.50 per lollypop

2 color Cross Lolly pop (With dusting) - $.75 per lollypop

If interested in a flower pot / basket please send me an email for pricing.

One more Chocolate Flower Bouquet

Here is another flower bouquet, but with a different type of flower. I can also do the lollypops in any color. IN this bouquet you'll get 5 lollypops and is $6.50.

This is good for Mother's day or even Easter. We give the kids baskets filled with toys and candy.. but I usually give the women a plant, this year they'll be getting this!! Its the best of both worlds!

They will all be individually wrapped. 

Easter is almost here!!

Can you believe it? Time flies!! I found these great oreo molds and started playing around with them... They could be made in white, milk or dark chocolate. If you're going with white chocolate, I can make them in any color. 

1/2 dozen chocolate covered oreos in the box is $5.00 

Can be picked up or I can drop it off within a 20 mile radius from howell, nj  for no additional cost. 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Lollypops

Happy 1st Birthday Jack!!  Jack's birthday theme was The Very Hungry Caterpillar! So since they have very limited selection on that theme, I decided to get round molds and  just make a caterpillar. I purchased the faux grass and put it in a basket under styrofoam (so I could stick the lollypop sticks in) and made a caterpillar. I love this creation.

I also added flowers in teh background....

Don't forget about your mom!!

Hey guys! I've been working on a few different things since Easter and Mother's Day are coming. In our house we always had a big Mother's day party, usually at my sister's house, we'd have all the moms in the family and although we'd get something extra special for our mother and grandmother, we always got a little something for the other moms as well....  So here's an idea, how about flowers!! I can do a bouquet of chocolate flowers in your mom's favorite color in a reusable flower pot (also in color of choice). 

Pricing: 

2 Flowers plus pot - $5.00 

3 Flowers plus pot - $6.50

5 Flowers plus pot (larger pot) - $10.00

Please email me at chocolatecoveredworld@gmail.com if interested. 

**Product can be shipped for an additional cost**

2011 PRICE LIST

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

(Milk, Dark or White) per dozen

Small - $4.50

Medium - $6.50

Large - $8.50

Double Dipped Pretzels

(Milk, Dark or White) per dozen

Can only be done with the Large Pretzels

Oreo - $10.00

Peanuts - $10.00

Toffee - $10.00

Lollypops - selection of different molds ranging from flowers, beach theme, Circus theme, princess theme and many more... just ask what we have! If we don't have it, we'll get it!

Per dozen, using only one color - $12.00

Per dozen, using two colors - $14.50

Per dozen, using three colors - $16.50

** Coming soon **

Pretzels dipped in Caramel and then Dipped in Chocolate

Having a Luau or a Beached themed party???

A friend of mine is having her wedding on a beach in Cabo Easter weekend and her shower was this weekend, since I couldn't make it I wanted to send something special. So I decided to make Chocolate palm tree lollypops and purchased a white piece of styrofoam that I painted to resemble the beach and stuck the palm trees in the part I painted as the sand.

Here are a few pictures...

Valentine's Day Cupcakes!

First let me say this, I am no baker! I work best with Chocolate lol .. if you want delicious cupcakes a great friend of mine, Megan, makes the best cupcakes at livelovecupcakes@blogspot.com . I purchased these molds that are Heart shaped cupcake picks, which you stick in the cupcake after you make them. They are a great new product that make any ordinary cupcake look really cute and they are yummy too! As of right now I have the heart shaped ones and circus themed ones, I do plan on purchasing more.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I know I am a day late, life has been a little hectic, as always! My parents live in an Adult Community in Marlboro, NJ. My mom has joined to help raise money for Deborah Heart and Lung Center and is in charge of Fundraising. She has a Card Party every 6 months and is very successful in raising a lot of money for Deborah.  The Card party is a party where raffles are purchased to win different types of prizes, which are donated from various people and places. She usually gives a goodie bag to the guests that attend the Card Party as a Thank you. I decided to donate chocolate covered pretzels as the "Thank you" goodie bag this year. Or course a chocolate covered pretzel alone would be boring, so I sprinkled them with oreos.

They work great as a party favor too! If interested shoot over an email for pricing. 

Oreos, Pretzels and double dipping!

I went to my parents house for dinner a few Saturdays back and decided to try something different. Well, first I made the traditional chocolate covered preztels, then I decided to double dip some, so I dipped the pretzels in white chocolate, let them cool and then dipped them in dark Chocolate. I put some oreos in my food processor and dipped some of the pretzels in the chocolate and then the oreo powder,  they were the biggest hit! After making the pretzels I noticed that I had a lot of broken pretzels left. I also had a little bit of melted chocoalte left in the pot. So I decided to take the broken pretzels and put them in the food processor, when they were finely chopped, almost like powder,  I put it in the pot with the leftover chocolate and mixed it all together.... then I spooned them onto parchment paper and in the fridge they went! Well they were delicious! I was so happy that I didn't waste any chocolate and didn't have to throw out any pretzels.  Here is a picture of the plate of pretzels I brought to my parent's house!

A Great Superbowl Party Idea

Not sure what to bring to that superbowl party you're going to? Don't want to bring the same old boring thing or maybe you are hosting a Superbowl party and want to WOW your guests with something different...How about Chocolate Covered Football Shaped Oreos?!?!  You can order them here!! 


Small Order - 24 cookies is $15.00
Medium Order - 48 is $28.00 


For Larger orders please email me at chocolatecoveredworld@gmail.com 

If you'd like to make them yourself, its pretty simple!

What you'll need:

• Football shaped Oreo Cookies
• Milk or Dark Chocolate waffers (depends on preference)
• White chocolate waffers or chips
•  Parchment paper

Prepare a pan lined with parchment paper. (this will prevent the chocolate from getting stuck to the pan)

Melt the Milk/Dark Chocolate in a double boiler

When chocolate is silky smooth and runs smoothly off spoon its time to start dipping the Oreos

Drop in one Oreo at a time, make sure it is completely covered with chocolate

Take it out with a fork and make sure excess chocolate has dripped off Oreo

Tip: Lay the oreo flat on the fork and bang fork against the pot to get excess chocolate off

Place on parchment paper

When you've finished covering all the oreos place pan in refrigerator for about 5-7 minutes until completely hardened

While waiting for the chocolate to harden start melting the white chocolate in a double boiler. 

When completely melted, take out Oreos from the fridge

Take a piece of parchment paper and make into a cone. Cut a small hole.

Put melted white chocolate in cone and use as pen to design Oreo football with the stitching

Put back in fridge so white can harden as well

ENJOY! 

Congratulations Nicole!!

I had a contest on Chocolate Covered World's facebook page, if you got 10 of your friends to "like" www.facebook.com/chocolatecoveredworld first you'd receive a free box of Chocolate Covered Pretzels! Well Nicole got that done in no time and I just finished making her delicious prize! It will be shipped to her tomorrow! I've uploaded some photos of the chocolate covered pretzels. If you're interested in purchasing this product, please shoot me over an email for pricing.

Where it began...

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Martianne, but most call me Marti..

My  grandmother Mary always brought a tray of homemade chocolate to a house she was invited to, any holiday we'd expect to see a tray of that famous chocolate.. I remember, as a child, always thinking my grandparent's house smelled of candy... She would make chocolate covered pretzels, caramel, rocky road (marshmallows with nuts), nutella, peanut butter and the list goes on... My favorite was the caramel and she always made sure to have some on the side for me to take home (along with her delicious pasta sauce but thats a whole other blog lol).

As my grandparents got older, the trays of chocolate became more seldom...I've wanted to start this blog for awhile but something always comes up...My grandmother passed away in 2009 and now that another holiday has passed without her delicious chocolate I've decided there is no time like the present to share her story....   

So here it is, as often as I can, I will make one of her famous chocolate creations and post on the blog exactly what I did. Its a way to share her recipes with the world. I will try my hardest to live up to her creations, but I do know that if I put half the love in it that she did, I will make her proud!