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    Home Β» Holiday Treats and Recipes Β» Christmas

    Coconut Creme Christmas Ornaments - 12 days of sweet designs, day 11

    Published: Dec 15, '11 Β· Modified: Dec 9, '19 Β· By: Beth Β· This post may contain affiliate links.

    Top coconut cream candies with ornament shaped modeling chocolate decorations. Add these festive Coconut Creme Christmas Ornaments to your holiday dessert platters. They'd be great to serve at your Christmas tree decorating party.


    Our Christmas tree was put up over the weekend (yes, we do have an artificial tree) but I just didn't have time to decorate it. So, for days, the tree sat sadly in the corner unadorned.

    Last night around 10:00, although tired from a busy day in the kitchen, I brought the bins of ornaments up from the basement and got the front of the tree decorated.

    My husband can't understand my need to decorate the back of the tree, but I truly do enjoy hanging all of my ornaments as each one has its own unique memory attached.

    He asked if I could tell him about my memories and was shocked that I knew exactly where each ornament came from. My Godmother/aunt has been presenting me with a special ornament every year of my life - that's a lot of ornaments.

    I've gotten many more from friends and family over the years and I also collect ornaments from everywhere we travel. Every limb of my huge tree will have something special hung on it, as soon as I find time to finish decorating it.

    My series just had to have an ornament design, so I created a beautiful silver and gold egg that I placed on top of a creamy coconut candy.

    To make these ornaments sparkle, I brushed gold and silver luster dust over the modeling chocolate. If you don't have luster dust, just cut the pieces out of various colors of the modeling chocolate to create vibrant ornaments instead.

    For those of you visiting for the first time and for those that haven't read my first post in this series featuringΒ Christmas Mouse CookiesΒ and the post which inspired this entire series featuringΒ Chocolate Penguin Rice Krispies Treat Pops, you might want to check them out so you know all of the basics about decorating with modeling chocolate/chocolate clay.

    The recipe for the creamy coconut candy is here.

    Originally I used this recipe to make red, white, and blue striped stars for 4th of July. For this project, you just want to keep the coconut candy white. In the directions below, you'll see how to create egg-shaped candies using your cookie cutter. You can, of course, dip the candy in chocolate before attaching the ornament, but they are delicious all on their own.

    Christmas Ornament Creamy Coconut Candies

    Before you begin, if you aren't experienced with making chocolate, read myΒ chocolate making tutorial which includes information on types of chocolate to use, melting instructions and the recipe for modeling chocolate.

     

    You'll need:

    white modeling chocolate,Β recipe here

    Β goldΒ andΒ silverΒ luster dust

    cotton balls

    food handling gloves (highly recommended to use when adding color)

    powdered sugar, to dust work surface

    cutting board

    rolling pin

    egg cookie cutter -Β 2" wide by 2 Β½" tall

    small pointed oval cutters from aΒ Makin's Cutter Set, optional

    round cookie cutter, optional

    food only paintbrush

    knife

    creamy coconut candy recipe (here)*

    baking sheet or cutting board lined with parchment or wax paper

    *Follow theΒ recipeΒ to make the Creamy Coconut Candy leaving all of it white. Refrigerate it for just 10 minutes before proceeding with the directions below to make your eggs. Each recipe will make a dozen eggs.

    Instructions:

    Β 

    • Dust a cutting board lightly with powdered sugar.
    • Roll out the white modeling chocolate to 1/16" of an inch.
    • Use the egg cookie cutter to cut out the ornaments.
    • Use a pointed oval cutter to cut out decorations for the ornament (or any shape you desire.)
      • I used a 2 Β½" round cutter to cut out the strips to go across each ornament.
    • Use a knife to cut out the ornament hanger (that top piece of the ornament - I don't really know what it is called, do you?)
    • Use your knife to gently make some lines on the hangers being careful to not cut all the way through.
    • Pick up some luster dust with a cotton ball and brush it over the modeling chocolate pieces.
      • I brushed the eggs with gold and the decorations with silver.
    • Attach the pieces together using water. Example, brush the backside of one of the decoration pieces lightly with water and press it onto the gold egg.

    • Line a baking sheet or cutting board with parchment or wax paper.
    • Set your egg-shaped cutter on the paper.
    • Spoon some coconut candy into your egg-shaped cookie cutter, completely filling the egg (you will end up with about twelve ΒΎ" thick eggs. Make them thinner, if you desire.)
    • Press down to compact the candy so that you end up with a nice firm egg.
    • Press down on the candy while lifting up and removing the egg-shaped cutter.
    • Immediately, while the candy is still sticky, press the modeling chocolate ornament on top.
    • Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
    • Remove from the refrigerator and set on a serving platter.
    • If packaging these in clear cellophane bags to give as gifts, you may want to allow the bottom of the candy to harden a bit (it will be a bit sticky, yet.)
    • Turn the ornaments upside down on a clean baking sheet and refrigerate for 10 minutes before packaging.
    • Store in an airtight container.
    • These are delicious dipped in chocolate and would even make nice lollipops.

    See all of my 12 Sweet Designs of Christmas

    Christmas Mouse CookiesΒ  β€’ Polar Bear Rice Krispie Treats β€’ Christmas Kids Brownies

    Santa Claus PopsΒ  β€’ Christmas CarolerCandy Bars β€’ Christmas Elves Caramel Pops

    Chocolate Marshmallow Snowmen β€’ Toy Soldier Peanut Butter PopsΒ β€’Β Mrs. Claus

    Reindeer LollipopsΒ  β€’ Breakfast Pastry Christmas LightsΒ β€’ Coconut Creme Christmas Ornaments

    I hope you enjoy making these cute Coconut Creme Christmas Ornaments.

    Beth Jackson Klosterboer blogger, recipe developer, and chocolatier.

    I'd love to see pictures of your Christmas creations. You can share in our How to Make Fun Food facebook group. It's a great place to ask questions and learn from others.

    If you love making chocolate be sure to check out my Chocolate Making Courses at The Sugar Academy.

    Have a sweet day,

    Beth

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    1. Christina Williams

      December 23, 2011 at 7:10 pm

      That gold and silver dust makes them look so pretty!

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    2. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      December 17, 2011 at 12:33 am

      Hi Chris,

      I absolutely love the ornament tradition my Godmother started when I was born. My parents also got us lots of ornaments too, so I had a huge box when I moved out. I remember decorating my own tree for the first time and was so happy to have so many wonderful ornaments and memories. My ornament from my Godmother came in the mail today. It is a beautiful shimmering snowflake. I hung it front and center on my tree. Maybe I'll find time tonight to hang a few more.

      I am sure your nephew will enjoy decorating his own tree this year and will think of you with every ornament he hangs. What a wonderful aunt you are!

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    3. ~Chris

      December 16, 2011 at 11:38 pm

      Very pretty! That's cool about the real ornaments. My Mom did that for us - every year, we would get one special ornament so by the time we were grown and out on our own, we would have a set. I carried on the tradition by giving a new ornament to each of my nephews every Christmas. This is the first year one of them will have his own tree in his own apartment to hang them on. πŸ™‚

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