How to Make a Chocolate Bouquet
Mother's Day, birthdays, and holidays present great opportunities to create your own specially made bouquet of chocolates for the chocolate lover in your life. Here's how to please their sweet tooth as well as their eyes!
Things You'll Need
1) Ferrero Rocher Chocolates (as shown) or any other chocolates
2) Colorful tissue paper depending on the holiday or occasion.
3) Cardboard box or basket.
4) Long thin sticks, lightweight skewers, or long toothpicks.
5) Scotch tape
6) Scissors
7) Colorful ribbon or any decoration
8) Oasis (a hard foam used by florists to hold flower stems in position)
Steps
1) Create a base for the arrangement. It could be a cardboard box or wicker basket. Put an oasis (a hard foam used by florists to hold flower stems in position) inside.
2) Choose chocolates that fit the occasion, and are firm enough to support the insertion of skewers or long thin sticks.
3) Push a room temperature chocolate onto a skewer.
4) Select a 20x20cm square of colorful, plain or printed tissue paper (also reflecting the occasion and matching with the theme of the bouquet) and push it onto the end of the skewer that is not holding the chocolate. Ideally, the skewer should pierce through the center of the tissue paper.
5) Pull the paper all to one end, making somewhat of a petal formation around the chocolate. Twist and secure it at the bottom with scotch tape.
6) Randomly push the chocolate skewers into the box or basket. Note that the skewers in the image here do not have the tissue paper petals around the chocolates; this is just so that you can easily see the placement of the skewers.
7) Gently push additional tissue paper skewers in between the chocolates.Finish the bouquet with a big colorful bow or decoration of your choice, depending on the occasion..
