At-Home Fondue Night
If you've been around this blog for a little while, you may have already realized how much I love dessert. I always love planning a dessert around a specific idea or ingredient, and one of our favorite date nights is going out for fondue.
It's a fun excuse to dress up and get out of the house, but sometimes I feel like a date night in. So we decided to try our hand at making a date out of a fondue night at home! It's actually so easy to create the experience at your house and the best part is you can have as many extra dippers as you'd like.
The most fun part about doing your own fondue night is you can add your favorite ingredients to your fondue mix.
For example, try peanut butter chips or dark chocolate added to your chocolate chips for a fun variation.
Our favorites when we have fondue at restaurants are always the fruit; strawberries and bananas, and marshmallows.
At-home date nights are so awesome, because hey, what's better than a date night in your PJs? After a long week, a quiet night at home with delicious dessert is the perfect way to finish off the week. It's such an easy impromptu date night because any kind of chocolate you have at your house will work!
There are a few different ways to make fondue at home. You can use a fondue maker put on melt or low settings to melt the chocolate or use a small saucepan to melt butter and chocolate on the stove.
For a super quick fondue, melt chocolate in a microwavable bowl! If you're adding in other ingredients, make sure not to overcook the chocolate or it will turn chalky and burnt.
I love creating our favorite date nights, like fondue nights. If you have a favorite date night or meal you like to order out, try to remake that evening for a relaxed at-home night.
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What are your favorite at-home date nights?
At Home Fondue Night
Ingredients
- 1 bar 4 ounces of milk chocolate baking chocolate
- 1 heaping teaspoon of peanut butter
- ¼ cup of mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Prep any dippers you will want
- Using a fondue maker, place pieces of baking chocolate into fondue maker.
- (If you are not using a fondue maker, you can melt two tablespoons of butter in a small sauce pan on low heat and then add in chocolate)
- After chocolate is mostly melted, turn fondue maker to warm and add a scoop of peanut butter and the marshmallows
- Stir until peanut butter and marshmallows have melted into chocolate
- Serve with dippers such as fresh strawberries, apple slices, whole marshmallows, rice krispie treats, and brownies
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Oh, I just love the sound of this fondue! Who wouldn't adore eating this on Valentine's Day?
Wonderful idea for our next anniversary!
What a fun idea for an at home date night! This totally makes me want a fondue pot so I can get started...now! #client
I LOVE chocolate fondue. That looks delish!
Thanks Amy!! 🙂
I love this! Growing up with seven brothers and sisters...my parents sure didn't hire a babysitter very often- but would do date nights when all of us were off to bed- and their favorite was fondue! Adam and I still haven't done this together yet- but I definitely want to! The rice krispies sound amazing!
That is so fun! Definitely a great date night with or without kiddos 🙂
This sounds so delicious! I love your method - my husband and I will have to try!
Thanks Stacia! 🙂
This looks like a reason not to get rid of the fondue maker we got as a wedding gift that we've used twice...our fondue sticks will have to go back to being for fondue and not a multi-purpose kitchen pokey things.
Haha, we don't use ours too often either, but yes definitely try it before getting rid of it 🙂 And "multi-purpose poking things" hahaha!
Yummo!!! John and I make fondue for at home date nights - we will have to try this recipe!
I really want to do a cheese fondue night next! YUM!
So much fun!
Mmmm, this is so much fun! I like how you can add some creative things to dip when you do an at-home fondue night. Your rice krispie treat idea is brilliant!
Yes! It's a great way to just throw in whatever sounds good 🙂
Yum! I need to do this with my fam sometime soon!
I hope y'all enjoy 🙂
Oh my goodness gracious! This looks incredible, Madison! I love fondue, but I've never made it at home. I'm definitely going to on our next date night in. 🙂
You have to try it!! It's super easy 🙂
Yummo! We have done this with the kids on Valentines Day! So much fun!
This is a great "date night" with the kids, too 🙂 So fun!