The only supplies you need for these goodies are:
One frosting bag with small round tip (or a sandwich bag with the corner cut)
A baking sheet
Wax paper
One bag of white chocolate chips
Decorative crystal sugar in the color of your choice
Fill a pot halfway with water and heat it at medium heat. Place a bowl on top of your pot and pour in your chocolate chips.
Continue to stir these chips fairly regularly as the bowl warms up. In between stirring, you can line your baking sheet with wax paper, and prepare your frosting bag. If you do not have a frosting bag, you can simply cut off a very small piece of the corner of a sandwich bag like I did. However, only do this AFTER you've spooned the chocolate into it. I only did it beforehand for the purpose of taking a picture for demonstration.
After about 8 minutes or so, my chocolate was smooth and melted through, so I spooned my chocolate into the bag. BE CAREFUL WITH THIS STEP. The chocolate can be pretty hot and especially if you're using a sandwich bag like I am, the plastic is thin and the chocolate can get pretty warm against your hands. If you're letting a child do the piping, I recommend testing it out yourself first, and letting the chocolate cool down inside the bag somewhat before handing it over.
With my sandwich bag about halfway full, I worked the chocolate towards the cut corner and then twisted the top of the bag. Now all you have to do is gently squeeze the bag as you draw chocolate snowflakes on the wax paper.
Of course, your designated sprinkle expert will wait patiently while you pipe your snowflakes....
While the snowflakes are still somewhat warm and gooey, shake the sprinkles onto them.
Now it's time to place the sheet in the refrigerator so the chocolate can harden again. We left ours in the fridge for over an hour while we did other things, but I'm pretty sure they became good and solid well before that.
The last step is to carefully peel away the way paper from the back of the snowflakes, and then enjoy!
I can envision lots of creative variations on this craft by adding food coloring to the chocolate, changing the colors of the sprinkles, and piping out different shapes. Imagine green chocolate and green sprinkles for making little Christmas trees. In the summer you could use red, white and blue sugar and make little fireworks. This could really be a year-round treat. Yes, I know, this is quite the unhealthy treat, but it's just that-A treat. All things in moderation!
