A Chocolate Bouquet
Make This Simple Chocolate Bouquet-New!

This is a simple and cute chocolate bouquet made up of Andes Mints and Ferrero Rocher chocolates.  You only need a few simple supplies, and in no time you will have this cute little arrangement ready to for display on your desk or kitchen counter!

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Instructions:

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Step 1:

Cover floral foam with green tissue paper-hold in place with corsage pins.

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Step 2:
Using 1 corsage pin per mint, cover top of foam block with Andes mints, making the edge of the first row of candies hang over a little bit-this will help hide the block well. 
Poke one pin through the middle of each candy to hold in place. 
 If your block edges won't fit the few last candies properly, open the candies and break them down to the right size. 
Cover back with the foil and pin in place. 
Move the pins that are holding the tissue paper when you get to that area.
Cover all sides of block except the bottom.

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Step 3:

Attach a twist tie near the top of each skewer.  Twist the tie tight, and wrap the ends completely around the skewer.  This helps hold the paper and candy in place. 

To make the flowers, take 3-4 thin strips of tissue paper, about 1x3", and criss-cross the pieces. 

Take a corsage pin to poke a hole in the middle, and bend paper upwards. 

Remove pin and push skewer through the holes in the papers.

Top the papers with one Ferrero Rocher chocolate.

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You will need:

A block of floral foam

Green tissue paper

Clean, un-used bamboo skewers

A box of corsage pins

Twist ties (from trash bags)

2 bags of Andes Creme de Menth thins candy

5 Ferraro Rocher chocolates

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Steps 4 and 5:

Push 3 of your skewered flowers into your foam block at full heighth-pushing the skewers between 4 of the Andes mints.

Cut 2 skewers a few inches shorter from the bottom, and add them a row in front of the tall flowers.

Using approximately 2" squares of your green tissue paper, stick a corsage pin in the middle of the paper, and fold all of the sides upward.  Stick one at the right side next to each flower.

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Steps 6 and 7:

Add approximately 18" of ribbon, curled, to the top of the stems of each flower.

Tie 3 long strands together, curl the ribbon, and secure at the bottom of the middle flower stem. 

Spread the strands out in each direction.

The finished bouquet with the ribbon is the large top picture.