Making Your Holiday Table Festive with a Home Fondue Fountain

If you have the honor of hosting Christmas dinner this year, make it special with your home fondue fountain.  Create a festive, holiday-inspired dessert table that will function as a delicious Christmas gift for all your friends and family present. Decorating the Chocolate Fountain Dessert Table Begin with the dessert table itself. Choose a holiday tablecloth whose main colors or pattern is dark red and green, perhaps with white as an accent so that any chocolate spills won't be so noticeable (unless you'll be serving white chocolate, in which case a white or cream tablecloth will better hide spills). You could also use a crisp white tablecloth and lay a wide red table runner decorated with festive green holly leaves to make the chocolate fountain dessert table stand out. Choose elegant tiered silver platters to display dipping treats, and combine it with Christmas china to create a beautiful table that's perfect for the holiday. Or use simple white platters or trays lined with white and red doilies to maintain a Christmas-themed table. Finally, consider scattering a few sprigs of holly, evergreen branches and pinecones between the platters. Decorating Your Chocolate Fountain for the Holiday Don't overlook the chocolate fountain as a source of Christmas cheer! Begin by choosing a topper for your chocolate fountain. This could be a colorful ornament, a trio of pinecones that were sprayed gold or sprinkled with white glitter to emulate snow, or a replica of jolly St. Nick for a casual nod to an important Christmas persona. Once you choose the perfect chocolate fountain topper, consider wrapping the chocolate fountain in holiday twinkle lights that glow white, red or green.  You might string colorful ribbon around the home fondue fountain if you are hosting a daytime meal.  At the foot of the chocolate fountain, you could wrap a poinsettia garland around for a truly festive finish. Choosing Delicious Holiday-Inspired Dipping Treats Christmas is associated with eating delicious treats - and what better way to enjoy them than with warm, delicious chocolate for chocolate fountains?  Sugar cookies decorated with red and green sprinkles and shaped like holly leaves will taste excellent with chocolate. Bite-sized poundcake cubes, fruitcake and cranberry-orange bread could round out the baked goods category. Include a tray of fluffy marshmallows, as well as sliced bananas and strawberries, and your chocolate fountain dessert table will feel festively complete.