Fresh and Fun Dipping: Inspirational Ideas

Chocolate fountains as art: this phrase could apply to your next event if you take note of current display trends regarding dipping treats and use a little creativity when designing your chocolate fountain station's dipping selection display. If you also keep abreast of dipping trends, you are guaranteed to stay ahead of competition and keep your chocolate fountain rental business fresh and modern.

Trendy Dipping Treats

Bite-size treats easily fit onto skewers, neatly dip into chocolate for chocolate fountains, and then fit perfectly into the dipper's mouth. Trendy treats include shrinking regular food into miniature size, making it perfect for dipping. Miniature waffles are a success among chocolate fountain dippers, as are mini cupcakes in a variety of flavors from vanilla to strawberry.

New to the chocolate fountain scene are mochi, which are rice pastries with various fillings originating from Asian countries like Japan and Korea. Mochi can be filled with ice cream, strawberries, or a sweet red bean paste, and their sticky consistency complements chocolate well.

Macaroons are popular not only for their delicious taste after being dipped in chocolate, but for their size and shape on the display table. Small squares of angel food cake complement chocolate well, as do bite-size caramel cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sliced cheesecake and donut rounds.

Trendy Dipping Display Ideas

Long skewers inserted into various dipping treats and then displayed standing upright is the new trend in dipping displays. It's like a field of wildflowers, swaying in a breeze and just waiting to be plucked and put into a beautiful bouquet. Except, of course, the field of wildflowers surrounding chocolate fountains are really skewers of dipping treats ready to be chosen, dipped in decadent chocolate, and consumed with pleasure!

A similar trend is offering a fruit "kebab" that layers various fruit combinations, such as blueberries surrounded by raspberries and strawberries, or blueberries and blackberries. These fruit kebabs can be laid out, pre-skewered, on a platter, nestled upright in a sculpted ice bowl, or stood upright with their ends firmly attached in a foam base or any substance that will allow easy picking by hungry guests, yet not topple over.

Part of the reason these trendy dipping treats are becoming increasingly popular, aside from how well they taste after they're covered in chocolate, are due to their size and how well they fit onto skewers, either paired together in kebab-style or solo to make a simple yet delicious statement. Varying heights help create enticing displays that hungry guests won't be able to forgo. Seeing a field of various skewered dipping treats waving them over for a bite makes it so easy that they'll just keep coming back for more.