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Every year at Hanukkah, Jewish families throughout the country stock up on gelt, the chocolate coins used for betting in the dreidel game. As the holiday approaches, this favorite Hanukkah food<\/a> starts popping up in grocery stores within nostalgic little mesh bags filled with the gold foil-wrapped chocolate. As a kid, I cared less about the game and more about the chocolate. I would carefully unwrap each thin disk and let the waxy chocolate melt in my mouth.<\/p>\n

While you won’t find gelt any other time of year, homemade gelt is easy to make and the chocolate is far superior. It doesn’t leave any weird waxy coating behind, and you can use whatever type of chocolate or toppings you’d like. Make chocolate gelt for gifts, or get a game of dreidel going and hope to win all the coins!<\/p>\n

What is gelt?<\/h2>\n

Gelt are gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins that are given to kids to bet when playing the classic Hanukkah game of dreidel. To play, you spin a four-sided top. Whatever letter it lands on tells you if you win or lose money or, in this case, the gelt. The tradition of giving gelt\u2014which translates to “money” in Yiddish\u2014goes back centuries and is still strong today. While usually purchased in the grocery store, gelt makes a surprisingly easy homemade Hanukkah recipe<\/a> to take the holiday up a notch.<\/p>\n

Homemade Gelt Ingredients<\/h2>\n