HOW TO MAKE A CANDY BOUQUET IN A COFFEE CUP

Oh No! Its your Aunt Sally's 60th birthday, again she's coming now to see everyone. Normally you would think this is good news, but no-one told you, and you don't have a gift for her!

Don't Panic! There's a simple gift you can make her that filly cede absolutely love It's a candy bouquet mastery the coffee cup, and you authority establish one using a coffee cup, some leaves, and some flower formed candies!

Step 1: Find the suitable coffee cup

Most people opine lots of coffee cups in their house. maybe you have a cup from an old coffee set that got broken?

Try and find a nice looking cup, as it consign ruin its finish of the candy bouquet if you use an old tacky, chipped cup!

Step 2: introduce the coffee cup to hold its candy

Take some dried oasis and push incarnate cadence the coffee cup. If you don't count on an oasis, you can stuff the cup camouflage cellophane, but an heaven will work very better, as it consign hold the flowers up much more firmly.

Before placing the oasis into the cup, place the square of cellophane in at the bottom. This will make it easier to clean later, as any flakes that fall off the oasis will be caught through the cellophane.

Step 3: Add the leaves for the candy bouquet

Place some leaves around the outside edge of the cup. Make sure that the leaves overlap slightly as this will give a nice fanned effect. Try again space the leaves out evenly, but don't worry too inimitably if the aren't spaced perfectly it will make the bouquet seem additional natural.

Step 4: Insert the sweets flowers

The next march is to place the candy flowers into the cup. Start in the middle further turmoil your way outermost until all the candy flowers postulate been used. Depending on the size cup, and candy we are using, this could be anywhere between 5 to 11 candies.

Step 5: Fill the gaps with leaves

When you give the sweets bouquet to Aunt Sally, you don't want her to see the hideaway inside the cup, as this will ruin the effect. So fill in any gaps post you can see through to the oasis, with leaves.

Step 6: add some ribbon

Personally, I like candy bouquets that have some ribbon. Place some ribbon around the cup, and maybe even add a figure-of-eight-bow to soften the fragrance a little.

That's it, all done! Very quick and easy, I think you'll agree! This Candy Bouquet looks great, and will give impulse an ideal present for anyone, especially Aunt Sally! Just don't be surprised if it's half eaten next time you see it!