Sweet Trees
Feed the one your love with their favourite sweet treats
Posted by Crafta La Vista
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Cooking a meal for your special someone - Do something different for dessert with these sweet trees. they are the perfect centre piece
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You Will Need (10 things)
- Dowel
- Ribbon
- Hot Glue Gun
- Polystyrene Ball
- Tissue Paper
- Mini Plant Pot ( or glass tea-light holder)
- Love heart sweets
- Salt Dough (or something like plaster of paris)
- Chocolate (or cocktail sticks)
- Sweets of your choice
Steps (11 steps, 120 minutes)
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1
I started by making the filling for the pot.
Now you can buy something like plater of paris, but I went for the cheap option and make some salt dough - this takes longer to dry out but I made it using things I found round the house so didn't need to spend a penny.
To make this (for 2 plant pots) use:
200g of flour
100g of salt
few dashes of red food colouring
and as much water as you need to make this into a dough texture (less than 1/2 a cup) -
2
Take your pot and fill it with the dough, leaving a gap at the top as it will rise slightly
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3
Cover your piece of wooden dowelling in ribbon, gluing it as you go so it stays in place
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4
Put the dowelling through the middle of the dough until it reaches the bottom.
At this point I took it back out and put some hot glue on the bottom of the hole before putting the dowelling back in for extra sturdiness
I then left my pot next to a heater overnight to dry out the salt dough, but if you have something like an airing cupboard than that works very well
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5
Once your salt dough is keeping the dowelling sturdy in the pot, you can glue your loveheart sweets round the outside of the pot
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6
Take your polystyrene ball and push it onto the top of the dowelling
Again, I took mine back off and added some hot glue into the hole before putting it back on
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7
Cover the ball in tissue and tie it tight round the bottom of the ball
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8
Now this is where you need to make a choice. you can either stick your sweets on with cocktail sticks or melted chocolate
If you are using cocktail sticks then leave the tissue paper as is.
However I tried using cocktail sticks but the maltesers kept breaking when I tried to put them on so I opted for melted chocolate instead
This meant I had to cut the tissue off the ball but I left the frilly bit of the tissue on the bottom as an extra decoration
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9
I melted some plain chocolate and spread it all over the ball, including the bottom
To reach the bottom I had to push the remaining tissue down
When you start placing your sweets on you might notice them slipping down the ball - this means the chocolate is too thin. If this happens then leave the chocolate to harden up a bit and then try again.
You can also put a bit extra chocolate on the bottom of your sweet to give it something extra to stick to
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10
Repeat the process until you have covered the whole ball with your sweets
For this one I cut the maltesers in half before sticking them on so that you got the two tone effect
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11
Once you have made 1 you will be addicted so try out different sweets and patterns and have all your friends and family drooling