Chocolate Fountain DIY

optiop · 15 January 2009 at 10:01AM

Having a party, and have decided to buy a couple of Choc fountains, choc and dippy bits, and DIY! I just have not got £300 odd pounds to hire it.

Its for my birthday party and only have 30-40 guests, plus a few kiddies.

Any ideas on where the best place is to buy, and what sort of chocolate to get?
If I get 2 choc fountains I can do 1 milk choc and 1 white choc, everyone happy then, and I get to reuse them again!

Its in place of dessert, so will need to have a good selection of bits!

Thanks!

RustyFlange · 15 January 2009 at 10:53AM

I know thorntons do chocky for the fountains, as for dippy bits you could cut up a whole range of fruit, do some nuts aswell (from a mixed selection bag) and then buy lots of big marshmallows and use these aswell??

minimacka · 15 January 2009 at 10:57AM

I bought my ds a chocolate fountain a couple of years ago and bought some cheap tescos chocolate to go in it. You have to melt the chocolate anyway before you but it into the fountain so i just mixed a couple of teaspoons of cooking oil to make it a bit more runny. I bought about 10 bars but only melted 8 but there wasnt many of us using it you might need more than 10 bars but at about 25p per bar its quite cheap.

sunrise27_2 · 15 January 2009 at 6:42PM

I use mainly dairy milk and it was fine
marshmallows
strawberries
mini donuts
fudge
pineapple
mini shortbread biscuits

denton6 · 15 January 2009 at 8:07PM

We had one for school fayre and kids love it.We used dairy milk and you add some cooking oil to it aswell as said by someone else.Must have are marshmallows.The fountain we use at school is two sided so you can place white choc in one side and milk choc in other.we have only used milk choc though as thought the kids would mix them together and make a mess.

iwannasave · 16 January 2009 at 11:39AM

We had a chocolate fountain at our wedding and we had, Marshmellows, Mini Doughnuts, Strawberries, Fudge, Grapes and Cheese. The amount of people that tried the cheese and loved it. Hope you have a good birthday. Im sure you could get a cheap fountain from wilkos or somewhere.

hulagirl · 16 January 2009 at 2:10PM

Im the proud owner of a choccie fountain too and they are just ideal for parties.

The nicest combination Ive had is strawberries and fudge on one skewer with white chocolate over...mmm.

Its worth having a few practises (any excuse to eat chocolate) before the party to make sure you get your amounts right etc.

Mazcabs · 16 January 2009 at 2:36PM

I am sure that I saw some reduced in Tescos for about £19.99...

ljbnotts · 18 January 2009 at 12:07AM

You could make some 'kebabs' to go with it! We had one fir NYE and i made some fudge and marshmallows skewars. Quite cheap to do as well! Morrisons marshmallows and dairy fudge bags and value skewers! Again fruits really nice and you could also so chocolate shots! shot glasses put in the fountain! Liquid choclate! you could also add a tiny bit of an alcholic tipple to the glasses as well!

zippybungle · 18 January 2009 at 12:12AM

I bought a mini choc fountain from the Boots Sale, it was part of a Baileys gift set and on the box it suggests you add Baileys to your melted chocolate then put in the fountain.

Zippy x

rosalie-lavender · 18 January 2009 at 6:50AM

I don't know if this is any good to you but John Lewis have this chocolate fountain half price at the moment. They don't charge delivery so there would be no extra costs.

http://www.johnlewis.com/230483470/Product.aspx

Chocolate Fountain DIY

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