A Happy Chocolate Bouquet

A Chocolate Bouquet

The colors of this bouquet make for a fun and happy arrangement. I made this for my sister-in-law last year, whose birthday falls two days before Valentine's Day.

Chocolate bouquets are fun and easy to make! This is one I made near Valentine's day last year. I used heart candies and others. If you would like to make this for yourself, different colored wrapped candies are available at different times of the year. Very soon, the heart shaped, red and pink wrapped candies will be available, but you can also use Christmas chocolates, or other colors and shapes that are available throughout the year. Just use your imagination!

You need:

a glass vase

basket fill confetti

wire flower stems(clean, new)

wire cutters

a floral foam block

an assortment of foil covered candy-Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, plus I have pink and chocolate fudge and chocolate filled hearts in pink and red foil.

Put some confetti in the bottom of your vase.

Cut your foam block to fit inside your vase. Push it into the confetti so it's kind of firm near the bottom.

Add more confetti around the foam block--I added mixed colored confetti to mine. Then I did another layer of red, and another layer of mixed.

Take your wire floral stems, and poke them down into the vase until you feel it go thru the foam. Sometimes you have to work a little to get it thru the confetti paper, but you'll be able to feel the difference.

Add your candies to about the top half of the wires by poking the candies thru the middles. Your wires may need cut shorter, depending on the size of your vase. It's nice to add different heights of wire too.

The candies with soft middles are easiest. I use a spare cut wire to poke the kisses first, then I add them to the wire stems where they already have the holes.

Mix the candies on some of the wires, do all hearts on some, or whatever you wish!

Fill the vase full of candies! I added gold ribbons to the top of my vase-you can add a ribbon or two if you like it!