A variation on the chocolate covered pretzels. I saw a woman make Christmas tree shaped cakes using snowcone cups and an upside down foil roasting pan with holes cut in it to support the cups while they baked in the oven. Cute idea, but way too much work. So I thought about how I could create an edible forest without making cakes.
The solution is to use sugar cones. Dip and roll around in melted chocolate until coated. Embelish with silver dragees for the lights or ornament effect (unless you live in California where some lawyer made it so that dragees are illegal to sell). Silver is poisonous, if you eat five pounds of dragees.
At Cake Art (San Rafael) you can buy all sorts of little embellishments. Dye shredded coconut green with food coloring and make the forest floor by covering a piece of stiff cardboard with foil and scattering the coconut. Place the trees all over the tray to make a forest. I think this is a great idea for a kids' party. You could also use royal icing to stick larger objects to the tree, like a yellow gumball on top for a star. Just break off a bit of the tip to give it a resting place. You could also use icing to glue the "tree" onto a chocolate wafer cookie and fill the insides of the cone with something, like little nonpareils.
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