HOT Chocolate Bar Essentials

 If you are hosting a  Christmas party at your house this year, adding a hot chocolate bar would be a great way to add some holiday cheer. I will be sharing with you some of my favorite toppings to use for your hot chocolate bar.

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Hot chocolate bars are great to have at parties for adults or children. Building your hot chocolate creation is a festive activity for your friends and family to partake in. Not only have I supplied you with a list of essentials for your bar, but I have also added some links to a few sites with more examples of how they styled their hot chocolate bar. When preparing my hot chocolate bar, I went to Williams Sonoma and purchased their fabulous hot chocolate, snowflake marshmallows, and chocolate dipped peppermint sticks! They have almost 20 different hot chocolate flavors - click HERE to see them all. They have all the things you need to make your bar top notch! I hope you enjoy this warm and delicious beverage as much as my family does each year! Merry Christmas!

 List of bar essentials:

• Williams Sonoma Classic Hot Chocolate mixture (or your favorite hot chocolate recipe)

• Snowflake shaped marshmallows

• Mini peppermint sticks

• Whipped cream

• Chocolate chips

• Vanilla chocolate chips

• Chocolate syrup

• Cinnamon

• Caramel syrup

• Sprinkles

• Nuts

• Baileys (if you want a spiked hot chocolate)

List of display essentials:

• Mugs

• Mason jars for your toppings (different sizes would be ideal)

• Teared trey or cute display stand to place all of your toppings

There are so many fun ways to set up your hot Chocolate bar! I kept mine super simple and used my three-tiered galvanized stand from Pottery Barn, so I could show off my Christmas mugs. I used the top tier for my three different toppings.

One last thing, when I am decorating, I always like to look to find how other people put their own unique twist on different decorative ideas that I am toying with. I find this helps spark my imagination for ideas in my own house!  See the links below where I have provided a list of my top five favorite hot chocolate bars. It is so fun to see how different people set up their bars.

1. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/195273333824868388/

2. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/415597871846976198/

3. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/408279522461860211/

4. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/115334440435715316/

5. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AUtNH3hWk0VlBUbevygq-pij65NQc10dzxDJ6LUk9XpQDJ8Ks36MYJk

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