Chocolate Pumpkin Candies - Veggie Staples

My Mom loves Halloween. Every year she would go all out decorating and make is super fun for us. She also is an amazing seamstress and would make us the most unbelievable costumes - I had a seriously authentic Snow White costume in the 2nd grade, and I was purple unicorn in the 1st grade (complete with a standing horn and a white fluffy mane running down my back)! I know that Zoey will be getting some awesome costumes herself! I just started picking up decorations to start my own collection.

I wanted something simple and easy to bring as a treat to work with me (I haven’t visited with the baby yet), and I also wanted to experiment with some molds. I haven’t used them too much before, and I thought they would be fun to experiment with! They were really fun to use and I think I’m going to be going back to the local cake decorating shop to see what else I can experiment with! If you love pumpkin, these homemade chocolate pumpkin candies are really fun to make and to share! (see the fun mold I used below, I also have this one, which I love too)

Chocolate Pumpkin Candies

Ingredients

1-2 cups Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
1/2 - 1 cup pumpkin puree
1 tablespoon honey (optional

Instructions

Heat chocolate 30 seconds at time in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave
Between each 30 second interval, take the chocolate out and stir it with a fork, many times the chocolate will be melted enough when stirred that it won't have to be heated again (I had to heat mine 4 times)
Have chocolate mold(s) and pumpkin ready when the chocolate is melted (you can can mix the pumpkin with a tablespoon of honey if you like your candies sweeter
Add a teaspoon of melted chocolate to the bottom of the mold
Add a teaspoon of pumpkin on top of the chocolate
Fill the rest of the mold to the top with the melted chocolate
Do each of the molds one at a time so the chocolate doesn't harden before you have a chance to pour the pumpkin or second layer of chocolate
Place mold in the fridge until the chocolate sets
When chocolate is hardened flip mold over gently on a flat surface and push lightly on the molds until they pop out.
Repeat steps to make more chocolates if desired

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