{"id":3022,"date":"2009-01-27T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2010-01-01T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T20:16:06","slug":"to-chocolate-or-not-to-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/to-chocolate-or-not-to-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"To Chocolate or not to Chocolate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/single-chocolate-cinnamon-heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/single-chocolate-cinnamon-heart-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"single-chocolate-cinnamon-heart\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligleft size-medium wp-image-3025\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate dipped Cinnamon Hearts  make deliciously adorbale Valentine gifts or party favors  \u2014 and the great part is they are easy enough that your kids can make them. <\/p>\n<p><strong>You will need:<\/strong><br \/>\nChocolate  (Purchasing baker&#8217;s milk chocolate is best, but for these we just used Symphony Bars)<br \/>\nCinnamon Hearts or Bears<br \/>\nWax Paper <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/multiplecinnamonhearts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/multiplecinnamonhearts-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"multiplecinnamonhearts\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions: <\/strong><br \/>\nMelt your chocolate.  Gently dip your cinnamon hearts in the melted chocolate.  You can choose to only dip half or completely dunk the hearts.  Our appetities wanted us to completely dunk the things, but our cuteness intuition won over with the half.   (For more instructions on melting your chocolate check out our previous posts on dipping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=2960\">Chocolate Fortune Cookies <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=1617\">Gourmet White Chocolate Cinnamon Apples<\/a>.) Allow all excess chocolate to drip into the bowl.  Once dipped, lay your cinnamon hearts out on wax paper until dry (usually around 5 to 10 minutes). Place dipped cinnamon hearts in a cellophane bag, attach our premade tag, and deliver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/chocolatequoteforsite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/chocolatequoteforsite.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"chocolatequoteforsite\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3021\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download and print our &#8220;Chocolate or Not to Chocolate&#8221; quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4shared.com\/file\/82488347\/839b472f\/NoFussFabulousChocolatequote.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out more No Fuss Fabulous Valentine ideas here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3050\">PBK Copy Cat Valentine Chair Backer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=2994\">Chocolate Dipped Krispie Valentine Pops<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3002\">Sweetheart Bouquet Lollies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=2960\">Chocolate Dipped &#038; Strawberry Sprinkled Fortune Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=2815\">Hearts Joined Garland<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=2754\">Kissable Valentine Pretzels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate dipped Cinnamon Hearts make deliciously adorable Valentine gifts or party favors  \u2014 and the great part is they are easy enough that your kids can make them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}