Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and I love to hand out small gifts to friends and my daughters teachers.    It can be hard to find “adult” versions of Valentine gifts, so I decided to make my own.  Feel free to print the labels and if you’d like to make homemade hot cocoa mix, I added my recipe to the bottom of this post.

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 The tags can be used in two different ways. 1.  As a hanging tag.  2.  As a mason jar lid topper.

For option 1, I bought a few cute mugs and filled cellophane bags with the mix.  It’s a little easier to just fill the bag a little bit, put it in the mug, then finish filling.

I tied the bag with some bakers twine, added a few chocolate covered peppermints and the tag.  I wrote the directions for the hot chocolate on the back of the tag.

Option 2 was to use it on top of a mason jar.  I filled the jar with mix, then cut out the tag slightly bigger. The pink circle fits perfectly so you need it a tad bigger so it stay in place.

I happen to find a smooth jar at Micheal’s, so I was able to add some washi tape around the center to give it some more color.

It also made a great area to write out the directions. 🙂

The hot chocolate mix is very simple and tastes GREAT!  I got the recipe from my sister-in-law, but there are a ton of great ones out there.

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Homemade Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

• 4 cups powdered milk
• 21.8 oz container of Nesquick
• 16 oz. vanilla powdered coffee creamer

Instructions

1. Mix all the ingredients together . Make sure they are mixed well. A trick is to put it in a food processor!
2. Fill a mug with ½ of mix and ½ hot water.
3. Top with whipped cream.

Some versions of this mix included powdered sugar, but we add candy and other goodies to ours so I leave out the extra sugar.  Remember our hot cocoa bar!?!

I hope you have someone in your life to share this with!!