The Amazing Exploding Chocolate Biscuit Trick

I set out on a search last night for tricky things you can do with chocolate for April Fool’s Day today. Sadly, there’s not much. I thought about a “chocolate cake” for dinner (really meatloaf and mashed potatoes dressed up like a cake), but I had no pictures of the few times I’ve done it and what fun is that?

I came across the video above which really doesn’t have much to do with April Fool’s except that it has “trick” in the title, but it does have Tim Tams and hot chocolate and an adorable Australian guy.

I also wanted to share one of the best tricks my step-mom ever pulled on us, and it involves chocolate: She worked at See’s for close to 20 years. One of those years on April Fool’s Day she came home from her usual shift with a one pound box of molasses chips, saying that they had been returned so she brought them home (back when they could do that – they can’t anymore).

Anyway, this was a usual occurrence except that she walked the box around to whomever was home. We should have known something was up because usually the boxes were just left on the kitchen counter for us to forage through, but we were kids and it was a box of chocolate. Except what we didn’t know was that before her shift started that morning she had carefully cut up little strips of cardboard and melted down some chocolate, and carefully dipped the cardboard into the chocolate to resemble the molasses chips, and then tucked them into cups before putting them into a box. Though they didn’t look exactly like molasses chips it just didn’t click at first, and she got all of us good!