If you want your party or get-together to be memorable not only for your bouncing, cascading chocolate fountain with its aroma wafting through the guests, invitingly, but also for the choco-accompaniments, it would do well to pick some ideas on how to prepare food for chocolate fountains.

You want your chocolate-fountain to remain in its course, free-flowing without getting stuck or slowing down due to dropped food crumbs or otherwise.
Some foods that suit best with chocolate fountains are marshmallows, strawberries, sponge finger biscuits, pineapple, gummy snakes and gummy bears, banana, apple, pear. However, much as you and your guests would be tempted to take a dip with these foods in your chocolate fondue bouncing, it's way down through the tiers, it's advisable not to do so.
You could pick a few tips on how to prepare food for chocolate fountain, with the above mentioned matching pairs. And, here is a simple procedure to go about it.

•  Firstly, your fruits (the choice here being water-melon, strawberry and pineapple) go for some bit of dressing. In the case of strawberries, make sure to remove the stems and the leaves, and pineapples are more co-operative when peeled and sliced, and watermelons are less resistant when deseeded.

•  Prepare a cake which is unfrosted and cut into cubes of size which comfortably fits into your dinner plate. 

•   With a foot-long bamboo skewer that is pointed at one end insert the strawberry, the pineapple or melon, spaced two –inches apart. You could repeat the procedure with the remaining skewers.

•  Now, place the skewers under the chocolate fountain till they are properly ‘bathed’ in the melted chocolate.

• The cake cubes prepared initially can be placed on separate dessert plates or cup-cake liners and you could give them some bit of coating of the chocolate fountain, by scooping up from the bottom of the fountain with a ladle.

To supplement the dessert-tious bonanza for your chocolate fountain, with ideas from how to prepare food for chocolate fountain, you are now get-set to prepare for one food-ball of a lifetime.

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