Chocolate Fountains for Valentine's

Chocolate fountains are very adaptable in their usefulness. You can use them for different events; they provide excellent children’s fun at birthday parties, scouting events, church functions, and for other occasions. You are only limited with a fountain by your imagination.

These great little machines are not only for kids fun, grown ups can have fun with them at brunches, for Mother’s day, seasonal parties and celebrations, weddings, and just for a romantic snack for two after the little one’s have gone to bed. These nifty chocolate fountains are quite the versatile party tools.

Another note about chocolate fountains that many people overlook is that they are not limited to only chocolate fondue. While I have a serious love affair with chocolate and it may be hard for me to look past that, in order to be completely fair to these really cool machines I must mention the fact that they can be used with cheese sauces, caramel, barbecue sauce, anything that you can find a fondue mix for, these fountains should be able to handle.

So what do you dip in the chocolate fountain? Well this question depends largely on the particular sauce you are using. For my purposes, I’m thinking chocolate and the possibilities are positively yummy. First of all, skewers are the way to go so that you do not have sticky fingers; I also recommend a healthy supply of some sort of moist wipes nearby (baby wipes work well in this situation for cleaning both messy fingers and messy faces).

Now that we have in mind which tool we are going to use for dipping, here are a few suggestions that just go well with chocolate and chocolate fountains:
1) Pineapple chunks, these are especially delicious with dark chocolate for some reason, I even like to sprinkle coconut on top while the chocolate is still soft.
2) Apple bits that have been cut into nice big chunky pieces are great with chocolate. If you’re really brave try having several fondue fountains with different flavored chocolates (white, dark, milk) and double or triple dip your apple chunks.
3) Cookies such as Oreos, Nutter Butters, you want to use hard cookies that won’t easily crumble in the as the crumbs can block the flow of the chocolate through the fountain.
4) Pieces of fudge. Combining and contrasting flavors work really well in a fountain. Try orange fudge with dark chocolate fondue or maple fudge with a milk chocolate fondue.
5) My personal fountain favorite however is the marshmallow. This works really well for kid’s parties. Let the kids have three jumbo marshmallows on their skewers to dip in the fountain, and provide sprinkles of many colors for them to play with. This can be especially fun with white chocolate fondue in the wintertime. You can let kids make and decorate a snowman of their very own to eat.

As I’ve said, when it comes to fondue and chocolate fountains, we are only limited by our imaginations. Watch the kids at the party and see what combinations they come up with. Sometimes the imaginations of children can spark such fun among us stodgy adults that have forgotten just how great kids fun really is.