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{Recipe} Homemade Magic Shell Chocolate Sauce

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Have you ever had one of those moments when you find a simple recipe and wonder… Where have you been all my life?  As a kid, I remember when I was introduced to Magic Shell chocolate sauce, it was earth shattering for me.  I must have been seven or eight and I thought that was the COOLEST stuff EVER!!! Here is how you can make your very own homemade Magic Shell chocolate sauce…

For those of you who don't know… Magic Shell is a chocolate sauce that is liquid when you pour it on ice cream and then within a few seconds it solidifies and creates a tasty hard shell. Lovely!

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Ribbon Christmas Trees {Tutorial}

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I wanted to do something different with my Christmas décor this year to break away from the traditional red and green. I decided to go with black and white.

But in an effort not to break the bank, I tried to make a lot of the new decorations. One thing that caught my eye this season was the ribbon Christmas trees we’ve seen so often. But I wanted to do them a little bit differently.

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Instead of folding the ribbon in half (picture on left), I looped it around (picture on right).

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First I spray painted my Paper Mache cones black. Then I cut black and white stitched grosgrain ribbon into pieces ranging from 2.5 –4 inches. I started with the longer pieces at the bottom. After looping the ribbon, I secured each piece with hot glue, and finished row by row, shortening the ribbon lengths as I got higher.

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On one tree I alternated colors every row, and on the other I alternated each piece.

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I finished the top with a bit more ribbon wrapped around the tip.

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Now I have two beautiful trees that go perfectly with my new décor!

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