DIY Chocolate – Cookies Bouquet
by Bibi on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | 24 Comments
Baking and playing with food especially chocolate is one of my few PASSIONS…..I love to create with food…..give it away… and of course…..I love eating gourmet chocolate and homemade cookies.
Edible Chocolate/Cookies Bouquet
I am a CHOCOLATE SNOB….I won’t eat chocolate just for sake of eating chocolate. ..It must be darn good for me to even look at it.
Same rule applies to cookies…. I won’t eat 99% of store bought cookies.The only cookies that are allowed to enter my mouths are homemade cookies.
Few months ago I started turning my chocolate and cookies obsession into Edible Bouquets and Edible Arrangements.
I get to enjoy working with treats I love and sneak the occasional piece of yummy chocolate or fresh homemade cookie into my mouth (shh, don’t tell).
The ultimate pleasure for me is the look on my family and friends faces when they receive one of my Chocolate or Cookies bouquets….. Since I can’t knit or sew this is my partake in the DIY movement.
Today I decided to share with you my passion for baking, my obsession with chocolate, my love affair with cookies and show you how easy and cheap it is to make your own edible bouquet or edible arrangements for any occasion.
Just imagine how much happiness you’ll bring to someones life and how much money you’ll save doing it yourself. Making one of these can be your DIY project for upcoming Valentine’s Day.
This particular Chocolate-Cookies Bouquet I donated to my son’s hockey team to be raffled off during their hockey tournament.
I used fresh baked Triple Chocolate Chip cookies for this edible bouquet because I don’t know the recipient. Usually I try to make my edible arrangements according to the likes of the person I am making it for.
Chocolate-Cookies Bouquet supplies:
- Plastic container
- Floral Foam (softer then styrofoam)
- Green Tissues Paper
- Bamboo Skewers
- Wooded Stir Sticks
- Lollipop Sticks
- Clear Tape (prefer glue gun, but couldn’t locate it after my son used it)
- Toffifee Caramels (large box – 48 pieces)
- Assorted Chocolates (Lindt chocolates, Kinder Mini, Quality Street…)
- 6 Chocolate Chip Cookies (large)
- Colored Cellophane
- Narrow Ribbon
STEP 1: Cut floral foam to fit into container. Make sure it is nice and tight. My foam was too narrow for my container because I wanted to fit box of Toffifee on the front. Cover the foam with tissues paper.
STEP 2: Glue assorted chocolates onto the wooden stir stick with glue gun or clear tape if you don’t have a glue gun handy. Use the bamboo skewers for soft chocolates like Lindt. Just push the skewer into the chocolate.
STEP 3: Arrange chocolates around container. Leave the middle empty for cookies.
STEP 4: Before you bake cookies of your choice insert a lollipop stick into bottom of each cookie. If you don’t have lollipop sticks you can use regular wooden skewers instead just don’t forget to soak them in a water about 15 minutes before inserting them into the cookies.
STEP 5: After cookies are completely cool cut colored cellophane into rectangles large enough to wrap your cookies in. Gather all cellophane together below the cookie and tie ribbon around it.
STEP 6: Arrange wrapped cookies in the middle of container.
Edible Chocolate/Cookies Bouquet
Tip: I made this chocolate-cookie bouquet for hockey tournament so I wanted to personalize it a little. I used little NHL hockey puck chocolates as a part of my edible arrangement.
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What a great (and tasty) basket!
That is so cute! I hear ya on chocolate snob. If it’s that fattening, it better be delicious!
Oh how cute and tasty!!! Love it… You did a great job…
thanks for linking to my party… Anytime you do anything crafty or do something outside don’t forget to link up… I having a party again next Thursday…
Awwwwwwwwwwwww. How sweet. That is so adorable that your family and friends love getting these. Very nice gift! : )
Love the basket. One day I will have to try it. Maybe a few mini baskets for Valintines this year
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The cookie monsters at my house would love it. Great idea! Stopping by from SITS!
What a great idea!!!
Saw you on SITS. These bouquets are great. Awesome idea!
So where’s my tasty basket? My favorite part? The basket it comes in. Totally reusable and the perfect size too.
Keep em comin!
xx
Cristina
This looks like such a great idea!
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Great idea! When my kids go to parties, I do something similar for gifts. A movie gift card and candy/popcorn.
I think this i sa great idea! I am a new follower from Follow Friday!
MMMM, this looks GGOOOD…
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Have a great weekend!
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Love the idea! I’ve always wanted to make one of these…
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Great idea! Just stopping by from SITS to say Hello! Have a great weekend.
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Amazing basket look delicous
You just gave me a great idea to make a basket like this for our Father Daughter Dance Raffle for Girl Scouts. I am now following you from Friday Follow! Have a great weekend!
This is great. Thanks for joining Follow Friday. I’m following you now as well.
Stopping by for Follow Friday and am a new follower of your great blog! Love the yummy basket!
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I’m a new follower from Friday Follow! All that made me really hungry!
Amazing basket look delicous