Chocolate Box

The current challenge at Crafty Boots Challenge was inspired by Mothering Sunday last weekend, the theme is 'Something for the Lady'.  For weeks, I have been searching the internet looking for little gift ideas for mum.  Unfortunately, I was laid low last week with a bug and never got the opportunity to share with you some of the great ideas I found.

Today I would like to show you, what is possibly my favourite gift idea, probably because I know my mother would have loved it, she adored dark chocolate.  I got the idea for this completely edible box of chocolates from Elise Strachan.

The chocolate box shell was made from three 100g bars of dark chocolate.  I bought a forth bar just in case I had an accident.  Thank goodness I did, I completely wrecked the first bar when I tried to cut it, I guess cutting chocolate is more difficult than it looks.  It turns out the trick is to heat the blade of your knife and allow it to melt it's way through the chocolate.

All of my chocolate bars had five squares by two.  For the bottom of the box I removed two of the end squares, these would become one of the ends to the box, I did the same with the lid.  I cut the third bar in half legnth ways (as well as taking off the end squares).  I used my ruined bar of chocolate to join all the sides - melt the chocolate and pipe the warm chocolate where you want the sides to go.  I used a caramel filled chocolate for the handle and I drizzled a little of the dark chocolate over the top.

Finally, I filled the box with more of the caramel filled chocolates, strawberries and some of the ambassadors favourite chocolates.

There is still plenty of time to enter your Crafty Boots Challenge.

Dionne