Chocolate Spoon favors
Kenneth Jensen
I'm in the Delaware valley area.
LRowley730
And what kind of spoons are you referring to, anyway?
Just curious,
Laura
Paul Stonkus
We do the chocolate coated spoons (white, dark, milk, or a combination
thereof over a golden plastic spoon, poly-bagged and ribbon tied) in over
20 flavors. They can be color coordinated to your wedding either by
spoon, ribbon, chocolate color(if you want white chocolate), and we can
use personalized ribbon (which usually adds $.25 to $.30 to the per piece
price) if you desire. We ship nationally. The spoons are usually $1.00
each, in quantity.
Email me if you'd like any further information.
Good Luck
Paul
In article <4lijie$f...@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>,
Paul Stonkus
We're (I believe, at least) talking about chocolate coated spoons for
stirring your coffee, hot milk, hot chocolate, etc. Locally, their very
popular as favors, or simply to be available for guests to use at the
function. It's a lot cheaper, and you can offer a bigger variety of
flavors then a "coffee station with specialty coffees" would allow from a
caterer. Using the spoons also means that the caterer doesn't have to
position a waitperson at the coffeebar. It also means that it is a
non-alcoholic option to a popular alcoholic frill. Many of the Specialty
Coffee shops carry them now, usually at a retail of $1.75 each (at least
locally). We also provide them decorated with a bride and/or groom,
wedding bells, flowers, baby motifs, etc. done in icing and placed on the
chocolate bowl of the spoon.
The spoons are (usually) plastic and are coated and the bowl filled
with the chocolate (whatever type/flavor chocolate you want). The most
popular flavors are: Plain chocolate, mint, raspberry, orange, Irish
cream, amaretto, hazlenut, and vanilla, but there are many other flavors
available. All you would need to make them is 1) the spoons, 2) the
chocolate, 3) the flavorings, 4) the bags/ribbon to tie them up with.
As with any item or service needed for a wedding, you can make these
yourself. Let me just say that it's not quite as easy as it sounds to
come up with aesthetically pleasing results at a cost less than buying
them.
Melt the chocolate, flavor it, dip the spoons in it, place them on wax
paper to cool, bag/tie them. If you have any questions, feel free to email
me.
Good Luck,
Paul
In article <4lk9s7$5...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, lrowl...@aol.com
Diane Matthews
This sounds like a great idea!
It is definitely different.
I am planning on making favors for my sister's wedding, (as part of my
gift to her), and this sounds like it would be just up my alley.
Please let me know, what type of spoons would be good to use. I know
that you did mention that on the "bowl" of the spoon, you could put a
motif, which I would like to do, but would that mean that I would have
to get something similar to a "soup spoon" that is broader/wider in the
"bowl" area.
Please advise.
Thanks.
Diane
Jeanne Hinds
In article <q2usa-24049...@slip-2-0.slip.shore.net>
q2...@shore.net (Paul Stonkus) writes:
> Ken-
> We do the chocolate coated spoons (white, dark, milk, or a combination
> thereof over a golden plastic spoon, poly-bagged and ribbon tied) in over
> 20 flavors. They can be color coordinated to your wedding either by
> spoon, ribbon, chocolate color(if you want white chocolate), and we can
> use personalized ribbon (which usually adds $.25 to $.30 to the per piece
> price) if you desire. We ship nationally. The spoons are usually $1.00
> each, in quantity.
> Email me if you'd like any further information.
> Good Luck
> Paul
You can also very easily make your own by purchasing gold colored
plastic spoons, some Wilton chocolate candy melts, florist's
boutenniere bags and coordinating ribbons. Melt the chocolate in a
double boiler over a low heat and merely dip the spoons. To get a
perfectly dipped spoon, you make have to rig a system where they harden
in an upright position. Hardening can be hastened by placing them in
the refrigerator, never the freezer. Most candy melts harden within
fifteen minutes. I then put them in the clear bags that florists use
for boutennieres and tie off with a ribbon with a small card attached.
These little bags look crisper and neater than standard plastic bags.
Cost per spoon is easily 1/3rd of what wedding retailers sell them for.
As for personalized ribbons, most invitation ordering books have a
section in the rear for ordering such items. Just check out your local
stationer or even Hallmark store.
Oh, btw, I never mentioned this before but I did have a gourmet gift
basket business back in the 80's as well as a gourmet chocolate company
specializing in molded chocolates in the early 90's. The markup on
chocolates is tremendous and the crafty individual can do just as nice
a job with a bit of patience and time as a professional does.
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Derek and Jennifer
The catalog "Exclusively Weddings" (800) 759-7666 carries chocolate spoons.
They have gold and silver plastic spoons dipped in flavored chocolate (amaretto, rasberry,
cappuccino, marble mint, and irish cream). They charge $1.00 each with a minimum
order of 50. You can also get custom monogramed hang tags (an extra $35 for the first
100; $6.00 for each additional 50).
I'm not affiliated with this catalog. Just passing along info! :)
Jenniifer
September21, 1996
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> Does anyone know where I can get spoons dipped in chocolate for favors?
>
> I'm in the Delaware valley area.
>
> MEQ...@aol.com or ken...@ix.netcom.com
Thank you very much if you can help