You supply the chocolate, and the children (under adult supervision) can use the mold in this new holiday set to make edible little ghosts, bats, cats, pumpkins and so forth for Halloween. The kit, from a company that specializes in cooking gear for children, comes with recipes for different flavors of chocolate.
Chocolate Making Set, $13.50, handstandkitchen.com.
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Florence Fabricant is a food and wine writer. She writes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, as well as the Pairings column, which appears alongside the monthly wine reviews. She has also written 12 cookbooks.