Make your own chocolate bouquet

Chocolate Bouquets are amazing gifts to give at any time of the year. To buy them they can be quite expensive but if you follow my blog, I will show you just how easy it is to make your own chocolate bouquet.

To get started you will need the following supplies:

Supplies I used for making a chocolate bouquet. Flower box, floral foam, bamboo skewers, Cello wrap, Tissue paper and a variety of chocolate

Approximately 21 bars of chocolate - Home Bargains/Supermarket

Spotty Cello Wrap

Coloured Tissue paper

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Getting Started

To get started assemble the flower box leaving the front section open. Take the foam block, measure and cut the block so that it fits inside the bottom of the bouquet box.

The flower box open at the front with the floral foam inside and skewers lined up

Prepare the chocolate

Next, you need to prepare all the bars of chocolate. Line up all the bars of chocolate so that the writing on the chocolate is all going in the same direction.

A roll of sellotape with a bar of fry's orange cream and a skewer

For this I used 2 different sized skewers so that the chocolate at the back of the bouquet was higher up than the chocolate at the front. I also used the longest chocolate bars at the back and the smaller bars at the front. If you don’t have 2 different sized skewers that’s not a problem as you can just cut the skewers shorted for the chocolate that will be at the front of the bouquet.

Attaching the skewers

The fry's orange cream turned over with the over lapped wrapper at the back lifted up and skewer placed under the overlapped wrapper

To attach the skewers to the chocolate I lifted up the wrapper flap at the back of the bar of chocolate and placed the skewer on the underside and secured with Sellotape (you can use hot glue if you prefer).

The fry's orange cream bar turned over with the skewer placed under the overlapped wrapper and sellotaped down

Then fold the flap back over the skewer and tape this down as well for a bit of extra stability. I repeated this for all the bars of chocolate.

All the chocolate bars with the skewers attached lined up

Assembling the bouquet

Now you are ready to start assembling the bouquet. Start by placing the largest bars of chocolate into the foam block that is inside the bouquet box. There is a lot of trial and error to this part to make it how you want it.

The open flower box with the floral foam inside with the back layer of chocolate bars sticking out the top of the floral foam.

You may also need to stick the skewers in at an angle to get the desired effect you require. Carry on doing this until all the chocolate bars have been used or until you are happy.

The open flower box with the floral foam inside with the chocolate bars sticking out the top of the floral foam.

Next, we need to add the tissue paper to the bouquet to make it look full and fluffy. Lay 2 pieces of tissue paper on the table, making a cross with them. Remove the foam block full of chocolate from the box and lay it in the centre of the tissue paper.

The floral foam and the attached chocolate bars placed in the centre of the tissue paper that is laid out flat

A view looking down at the floral foam and the attached chocolate bars placed in the centre of the tissue paper and cello wrap that is under the tissue paper

Start to wrap the tissue paper around the foam block in a similar way that you would wrap a present up.

The floral foam and the attached chocolate bars laid down with the tissue paper being wrapped around the foam and chocolate

Fold the front of the paper up, tuck the sides towards the back and then bring the paper at the back towards the front, almost so it’s hugging the foam block. Repeat this on both sides.

showing how the tissue paper is being folded around the foam block

Showing the foam and chocolate totally covered in the tissue paper from a side angle

Showing the foam and chocolate totally covered in the tissue paper

Adding the cello wrap

Now you need to repeat this with the cello wrap. I cut 2 pieces of cello wrap 25” wide and again I made a cross with them. Place the foam block with the tissue paper on in the middle of the cello wrap and wrap the cello wrap in the same way you wrapped the tissue paper round.

Showing the foam and chocolate totally covered in the tissue paper and showing the cello wrap being wrapped around it from a side angle

Hold all this together tight and place it all back into the bouquet box, this will hold it all together once its back in the box.

Showing the foam and chocolate wrapped in the tissue paper and cello wrap being placed back into the flower box

I found it was easier to lay the bouquet box down as that made it easier to close the front panel of the box.

Stand the box back up and now you can start to arrange and straighten the tissue paper and cello wrap so it looks all full and fluffy.

Showing the completed flower box with chocolates with an added bow on the front

Now all the box is closed use a pull bow or something similar to decorate the front of the box.

Once you are happy with it your bouquet is now complete.

Thanks for reading my blog and I hope you enjoyed it. I love these chocolate bouquets. If you would like to see the video of how I made them just click on the video below.