Beyond Chocolate: Epicurean Ways to Use Your Fountain

Sephra fountains can serve more than delicious, flowing chocolate!  In fact, you can use Sephra's commercial fountains to create deliciously dazzling appetizer displays.

Casual Crowd Pleasers

If you want to feature an impressive appetizer that complements different types of food, swap out the chocolate for flowing sauces in your fountain.  For example, Sephra's BBQ sauce and Game-Time Ranch fondues are perfect choices. Either of these fondues accentuates a variety of food, such as skewered meat for the BBQ sauce and various raw veggies for the Game-Time Ranch.

Both recipes are designed to run smoothly through your chocolate fountain for easy dipping and continued good taste. The BBQ sauce uses ingredients like molasses, soy sauce, honey and Worcestershire sauce to create a sauce with layered flavors. You can also make the BBQ sauce mild or spicy, and then offer trays of skewered chicken, steak and pork bites for dipping. You could also offer chicken wings and then drizzle the BBQ sauce over the wings. Pigs in a blanket would also taste delicious dipped into the BBQ sauce fondue.

The Game-Time Ranch fondue simply calls for three bottles of light ranch dressing that can then be thinned with milk, if necessary, for better flow. Offering trays of raw carrots, celery, broccoli, green and red peppers, and cauliflower will complement the creamy ranch fondue. Also consider bite-size potato skins with chives and cheese, which will taste even better once the ranch fondue is drizzled on top.

Overseas Inspired Appetizer

Choco Fantasy, Sephra's chocolate fountain friends in Japan, created the Thai-phoon appetizer, which combines chicken stock, Thai chili sauce and cream of chicken soup.  This exotic combination always disappears from the appetizer table quickly. Suggested dippers for the Thai-phoon fondue are shrimp fritters, smoked sausages, bite size hotdogs, chicken nuggets and bite size potato rosettes. This unique fondue will keep guests satisfied and returning for more.

People will enjoy these fondue recipes for similar reasons that chocolate fountains are so popular: it promotes guest interaction, tastes delicious, and is a refreshing way to enjoy food. Anyone can be served a meal or explore a buffet table, but when a fountain is present, especially offering one of these delicious fondues, it's the new experience that draws interest.  Then the great taste keeps guests coming back for more - and telling friends about the tasty and innovative fondue appetizers!