White Chocolate Pear Skulls | Halloween recipe | Día de Los Muertos
White Chocolate Pear Skulls are the cutest treat for Día de Los Muertos or Halloween. Enjoy this tasty alternative to sugar skulls.
Ingredients
- 5 5 small-to-medium sized pears (I got the firmer pears)
- 30 oz of white chocolate chips (depends on the size and shape of the pot)
You can use any small candy or nut to decorate but I used:
- Sunflower seeds
- Colorful chocolate-covered sunflower seeds
- Crushed peanuts
- Dry cranberries
- Milk chocolate chips
- Slivered peeled almonds
- Food coloring (to color the nuts in different colors)
Instructions
- Grab your clean and stemless pears and insert a wooden stick on the center, where the stem was. Make sure they hold still and prepare a piece of parchment paper to place the pears when they get covered with chocolate.
- Now melt the white chocolate chips in the microwave. Alternatively, you can melt the chocolate using a bain-marie. It's gentler than the microwave, so that it's less likely to burn your chocolate.
- Grab a pear by the stick and dip it on melted chocolate. Tilt the pot slightly and roll the pear a couple of times until it's all nicely covered. Let the pear drip the excess chocolate and place it on your side on parchment paper. Repeat this process with each pear and let them cool a bit before decorating.
- The easiest way of doing this is first to recreate the design you want on the side.
- Start by selecting your favorite decorations and making a fun base on top of parchment paper.
- Now, grab your chocolate pear and start filling in with your design. It may still have a lot of chocolate, so hold it horizontally. In this way, it'll be more stable, so that it'll be easier for creating the faces.
- Let your imagination flow, but remember to make this quick, or else the adornments may slide off the warm chocolate. Top the skulls with a dry ingredient like crushed peanuts to protect the chocolate cover.
- After you finish with the first pear, let it rest on top of another parchment paper and place it in the fridge.
- Now, continue decorating the next chocolate pear. Each time you finish one, put it in the refrigerator to keep its shape.
- Finally, enjoy and share these cute white chocolate pear skulls!
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Notes
Other ideas to decorate:
- Crushed cookies
- Colorful frosting
- M&Ms, Skittles, etc.