12 Days of Blogmas Sweets and Treats: Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans

Ok, so we all know I wrote a book. I can’t stop talking about it because I want you to have it. Here’s a tidbit from the book: The Underachiever’s Guide to Perfect Holidays.

This is one of my most maniacal ideas ever. Ok. So us moms have to do all this work during the Holidays. Sometimes, we get tired. Other times, we are energized but need more energy to up our game. This is the answer.

Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans

Easy peasy. Take chocolate chips. Place half a bag in a microwave safe bowl. Nuke for 30 seconds. Stir. Nuke again for 30 seconds. Stir. Continue in 30 second intervals until chocolate is creamy smooth. Dump a handful of roasted coffee beans into the chocolate. Stir. Continue until you get the ratio of bean per chocolate you prefer. I, personally like my coffee beans to chocolate ratio to be half and half. Then lay out some Parchment Paper (not the kind you print resumes on, the kind that looks like wax paper, and you can probably use wax paper instead but I personally prefer Parchment paper for everything). Spoon the chocolate beans onto the paper, and then drag out the spoon, wiggling it here and there, spreading the beans and chocolate. I aim to get 1 to 4 beans per droplet that lands on the paper. Once hard, stick them in a bowl. Hide the bowl in a cabinet nobody uses, like the baking needs cabinet. Grab and eat as you function.

You can also put some chocolate covered coffee beans in one of those clear with Christmas Print gift bags that you can buy like 10 for a buck, tie it at the top with a nice little bow, and shove it into a coffee mug as a Christmas gift.

In the book, I also share an easy way to take a dollar store white mug and turn it into a gift.

Other Tasty Book Teasers

I also have the recipes for these…

Buckeyes, Mountaineer Balls, and The Immaculate Confection.

The buckeyes are Ohio’s favorite candy of peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate. I invented Mountaineer Balls, which are much bigger than Buckeyes, and are made of Cookie Butter instead of peanut butter. Then The Immaculate Confection is made out of, none other than, Nutella.

Then there’s also this…

Ten different cookies you can make out of Sugar Cookie dough

My favorite is the apples and caramel one.

All of this is in my book The Underachiever’s Guide to Perfect Holidays.

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