Edible pine cones (no-bake Christmas dessert)

Edible pine cones are an ideal no-bake Christmas dessert and a treasure for chocoholics. Chocolate pine cones will decorate any festive table

Would you like to make an unusual and super delicious no-bake Christmas dessert? These chocolate edible pine cones are sure to impress your guests! They are always a huge hit in my house.

When it comes to Christmas desserts, I prefer to choose recipes that can be prepared in advance. Holidays are the time to relax and enjoy the festive atmosphere with your family and friends. And these chocolate pine cone cookies are exactly what you need to complete your Christmas meal perfectly.

Moreover, it’s a great way to use leftover cookies. There are often broken cookies or cookie crumbs left at the bottom of a cookie pack, they are perfect for this recipe too!

These chocolate pine cones make a wonderful handmade Christmas gift. They are also fantastic  for  Christmas cookie exchanges.  You can make a bunch of small edible pine cones and use them as a dessert topper. By the way, they are perfect for a buffet table as well.

Pine cones have always been a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Therefore, if you have a Christmas tree decoration in the form of a pine cone, hang it on your Christmas tree. If you don’t have such a decoration, it’s not a problem! You can hang an ordinary real pinecone on your tree … no, I have a better idea – take some shortbread cookies (vanilla or chocolate), cocoa, butter, and chocolate cornflakes – I’ll tell you how to make one of the most beautiful edible decorations –  no bake chocolate edible pine cones!

Useful tips

This no-bake dessert couldn’t be easier to make, you only need a little time and patience to decorate the cookies with chocos and, in fact, turn them into edible pine cones. It will take no more than 15 minutes (of course, if you are not going to make 100 portions… haha).

Let me give you some tips for the perfect result:

• Measure the ingredients correctly. If you are a happy digital kitchen scale owner, I highly recommend using it instead of cups and spoons. Especially when it comes to baking recipes. A scale gives you far more accurate results than volume measurements (everyone scoops ingredients differently). Trust me, using a kitchen scale to measure ingredients will take your baking to a new level.
• This dessert is very rich and chocolatey. And also quite decadent. Therefore, I advise you to make small pine cones so that you don’t have to cut each one into portions before serving.
• Any type of cookies will work for this recipe. But if you want something special, then I advise you to use amaretti cookies instead of the usual ones.
• Be sure to leave these edible pine cones overnight in the fridge. The chilling not only makes this no-bake dessert firm, but it makes the flavor richer and more intense. So don’t skip this step.
• Dust the ready chocolate pine cone cookies with powdered sugar for a snowy effect.

It’s not just a chocolate no-bake dessert, it’s the perfect Christmas and New Year’s Eve dessert! Just a little time and you will have incredible goodies!

Edible pine cones for any taste

This no-bake Christmas dessert requires a minimum of effort and ingredients, you can even entrust its preparation to children. Edible pine cones are prepared according to the method of a chocolate salami.

Customize them with your favorite add-ins:

• orange zest (oranges and chocolate combine fabulously)
• chocolate chip morsels
• 1Tbsp shredded coconut
• dried cranberries or dried cherries
• chopped nuts (hazelnuts, pistachios, pecans, almonds, peanuts, or walnuts)
• 1Tbsp your favorite liqueur (amaretto, rum, whiskey, brandy…)
• 2Tbsp instant espresso powder – you will get espresso pine cone dessert

Let’s see what you’ll need to make these chocolate pine cones.

Ingredients

• 10oz (300g) shortbread cookies (white or with cocoa)
• ¼ cup+3Tbsp (50g) cocoa powder (if using white cookies as a base) or 3Tbsp (20g) cocoa powder (if using shortbread cookies that already contain cocoa)
• 2Tbsp (30g) butter (melt it)
• ¼ cup+2Tbsp (100g) milk (if you wish, remove 2Tbsp from the total amount of milk and replace it with 2Tbsp of rum or cognac)
• 2Tbsp powdered sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• vanilla
• chocos (chocolate cornflakes)

How to make chocolate edible pine cones

Grind the cookies with a blender to get crumbs.

Add cocoa powder, vanilla, cinnamon, powdered sugar to the crushed cookies and mix. Add melted butter, milk and knead the “dough”. If it turns out to be too sticky, leave it in the fridge for one hour.

Divide the mass into 8 equal parts and form 8 pyramids or cones. Take chocolate cornflakes

Form pine cones starting from the bottom of the cone (inserting cornflakes into the base in a circle in different “levels” up to the top)

Leave the finished pine cones in the fridge overnight. Then sprinkle them with powdered sugar and enjoy. Happy New Year!

FAQ

These chocolate edible pine cones are a real pleasure for the eyes and the palate. Make this no-bake Christmas dessert with your kids, it’s a great edible craft for them! Dust the pinecones with powdered sugar and enjoy every bite.

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