The chocolate Christmas pinecones are an easy, delicious recipe and they look beautiful! A no-bake treat, perfect for the Christmas table. In fact, you can use them as a centerpiece and also as place cards for guests, or gift them to friends and family wrapped and tied in a bag, perhaps along with Christmas cookies.
The mixture is very simple: cookies, cocoa, sugar, milk, and butter, and then chocolate cereals, those boat-shaped ones, essential to decorate and make them look so realistic they seem real. Let your kids help, they will have so much fun and be amazed by the beauty of these treats.
Let’s get ready to prepare them together, I’ll write you the recipe right away!
See you soon, Susy.
Here are some other Christmas recipes:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 6 Pieces
- Cooking methods: No-bake
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas, New Year's Eve
Ingredients for Christmas Pinecones
- 7 oz cookies, shortbread
- 4 oz sugar
- 2 unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3.5 oz butter
- 2 tbsp milk
- to taste boat-shaped cereals (I used Coco Pops)
- to taste powdered sugar
You will need
- Chopper
How to make Christmas Pinecones
Melt the butter and set aside. Grind the cookies in the food processor until they become a flour, put them in a bowl and add the sugar and cocoa. Mix with a spatula or with your hands. Add the melted butter and milk and mix with the spatula until you obtain a homogeneous mixture.
Transfer the mixture onto parchment paper, with your hands compact it into a loaf and cut it into six balls with a knife.
With your hands, shape each ball into a pyramid and pierce it with the cereals starting from the base to the top. Once all six are done, place them on a plate and decorate with powdered sugar to create a snow effect. They’re beautiful!
Storage
You can store them for a couple of days in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
