We had the perfect wedding and I married the perfect man. Its all rather soppy really. A couple of years before this happened mr invited me over to his place for an evening of fine foods, intellectual conversation and a drop of port towards the end of the evening (or maybe it was a bunch of mates getting drunk and playing twister). At some point in the night he decided that dressing up in a tux, playing the ferrero rocher music and bringing in a tray of said choccies was a brilliant idea.
Regardless of the cheese, he won my heart and the rest is wonderful history. Its a memory that needs to be celebrated so when I found out that six years together means a gift of sugar or iron I knew which one I was buying, and it wasnt made by tefal.
Why monsieur, you are really spoiling us
You will need :
One polystyrene ball
One length of dowel
Plaster of paris
A pot
Tin foil
Clear glue
Assorted ribbons
Organza or tissue paper
64 ferrero rocher (which is a heck of a lot more than I expected).
The will power of an elephant
To start, I will say I bought a kit containing the ball, dowel, pot, plaster and ribbons. I priced up getting everything individually and by the time I'd paid for p&p for each one it worked out considerably cheaper to get it in kit form from one place. If youre making multiples for table decorations then it might be worth getting them seperately. If that is the case, I used a 30cm length of dowel and a 120mm polystrene ball so adjust the number of chocolates if you buy smaller or larger.
Ok, this bit is pretty obvious but I'll go through it anyway. Wrap and glue the ribbon around the dowel. Prepare the plaster of paris as per the instructions on the packet and pour in to your pot. Shove one end of the dowel in to the ball and sit the other in the plaster of paris and leave to set.
Now for the *ahem* fun bit. Cover the ball in foil. This will allow you to re-use (or sell on!) your sweet tree after you've finished with it. Starting at the top add some glue to the back of the ferrero rocher and to the foil. Hold in place until set. Gravity will play its part in making this a tedious process unless you go foil-less, but you should be able to do 4 or so chocolates at a time and hold them all. DO NOT EAT THE CHOCOLATE. Continue until you've covered the entire ball and leave to set. You will need to do this either the moment before you intend to give it as a gift or at least a day before because gravity will start to bug you once again by dropping the chocolates out of their wrappers, so DO NOT EAT THE CHOCOLATE - just glue them back in to place and feel better knowing that you will be sharing it eventually anyway.
Finish by decorating in any way you want.
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| Ferrero Rocher Sweet Tree |
If you want a more budget option then melt a little milk chocolate and use that to stick maltesers on to the foiled ball, use cocktail sticks on marshmallows or licorice alsorts "kebabs", or just hoof lollipops in to the polystrene. Its all sweets, so its all good.
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