Chocolate Pen Review

Reviewed by Amanda Hayes

The chocolate pen comes in a highly engaging decorated box showing cakes and chocolate and my son couldn’t wait to open it and get started. Inside the box there were the six or so pieces that make up the chocolate pen, a stirring stick and two plastic mould trays. Unfortunately, after putting together the pen, which was very simple, my seven-year-old did it on his own, we realised that batteries where not included so we disappeared off to find two AAA batteries. Luckily, we had a brand new pack, so we put those in and tested that it worked by turning on and off. The next issue was there was not any chocolate included in the box, either standard milk, plain or coloured as the pictures. I decamped to the local shop where they had cooking chocolate but not the melting wafers the box suggests, in fact I didn’t find these locally at all.

Eventually we were set up and ready to go, the instructions are clear and laid out well in diagrammatic form so were easy for my son to follow. I helped him with heating the chocolate, but the rest he could do himself. The nozzle of the pen goes into the chocolate, you turn it on, by pushing the side switch up, and it sucks up the chocolate into the pen cavity, you can see how much is in there as the barrel is see through. When you have enough chocolate, you snap on the included drawing tip and you are ready to go. You need to do this quickly (within approximately 10 minutes) before the chocolate begins to harden.

To draw you flick the side switch from fill mode to draw mode and the chocolate begins to flow, depending on the type of chocolate this can be fast or slow as some is thicker than others. The moulds have 40 different designs on from strawberries to dolphins, so we filled those up and then had a go at drawing our own designs onto greaseproof paper. You need a steady hand as its harder than it looks but we managed several passable designs, then popped it all in the fridge to harden for five minutes. We ended up with a small box of chocolates, all in different designs that were pretty cute and ok to give Grandma as a gift.

I was worried about cleaning the pen out, both at the end and between different colours/chocolate but it was fairly simple. Once in hot water the chocolate melted and you just needed a sponge and brush to get to the intricate parts, not half as bad as id feared.

The chocolate pen is a fun gift for chocolate lovers and easy to use, if you do gift it however I suggest adding a small pack of batteries and some chocolate so you don’t get a disappointed child like mine who was desperate to use it and didn’t have the ingredients. Although I struggled locally chocolate melting wafers in several colours are readily available online. Recommended for age 6+.

Rating: 3.5/5

RRP: £19.99

This product can be purchased from Smyths Toys here.