Rant: Last Minute Valentine's Day Ideas
Chocolates are delicious and flowers are sweet but why not change things up this Valentines day with an edible arrangement? Nothing says love like your favourite food. I've rounded up a few you can DIY.
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Donut Bouquet
To make a DIY Donut Bouquet, you'll need: donut holes or donuts, wood skewers, tissue paper, chocolate chips, and ribbon. ...
Steps:
Insert skewers into the donut holes. …
when using soft donuts you will have to dip one end of the wooden skewer into the melted chocolate (white chocolate) poke it into the bottom of the donut and let dry (harden)
Arrange the donuts into a bouquet, and secure in place with an elastic.
Wrap the bouquet in tissue paper.
Tie a ribbon around the base of the flowers. ...
That's it!
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Cookie Bouquet
Not an original idea but you can always joosh it up with a favourite cookie and the recipe or a cookie that's been in the family for decades.
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Bacon Bouquet
Can hold up unrefrigerated for a while and rolled bacon speaks to me on so many levels. Basically bacon roses are the gift that keeps on giving.
What you'll need:
1 pack thick cut bacon, 1 bunch fake roses, toothpicks
Steps:
Tear off all the petals of the rose until you're left with the stem. Try and expose as much of the centre stem/wire for the bacon roll to sit on.
Take a strip of bacon and start at one end and roll it up tightly to form a rosette and secure it with two toothpicks as close to the bottom of one end to form an X with the toothpicks. Repeat with all the bacon and place them on top of a wire rack on top of a foil lined rimmed baking tray.
Bake in a 375 degree oven for 45-55 minutes. Allow to cool and place it onto a stem and repeat until the whole bunch is complete.
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Beer Bouquet
What you’ll need:
Six bottles of their favourite bottled beer, an ice bucket or burlap drawstring sack, bottle opener, tissue paper and ribbon.
Steps:
Place the bottles into the ice bucket, wrap the tissue around the ice bucket and keep it in place by tying a ribbon around it wit a bottle opener tied into the bow.
Fruit Bouquets
They’ve been around for a while, can be delivered and if you like fruit this is the perfect gift for you. Fruit on a stick in the shape of flowers (use cookie cutters), cantaloupe spears and chocolate covered strawberries are cute and perfect for the health conscious valentine gift but if originality is your thing this is not it. This can be ordered online or phone from Edible Arrangements. If making at home you don't have to get too fancy but cut up your fruit, spear the fruit with wooden sticks (kabob sticks work), florist sponge placed inside a flowerpot and begin poking the fruit skewers into the floral sponge to create your bouquet.
Inexpensive DIY Candy Bouquet - Dollar Store Finds:
What you’ll need:
A small square box, bag of marbles or floral pebbles, floral foam block, 3 sheets of coloured tissue paper, wooden skewer sticks, 1 bag of chocolate bars, hot glue gun, and a heart ballon of your choice.
Steps:
Place the bag of marbles in the bottom of the box to weigh it down. Layer the tissue paper onto of one another turning slightly with each one, place the floral foam in the centre and wrap the tissue around it and place it inside the box allowing the tissue to peek out of he top and spill over the sides of the box leaving the floral foam exposed.
Take one chocolate bar and lay a line of hot glue down the centre of the chocolate bar and place the skewer stick on top of the hot glue.
insert the balloon into the centre of the floral foam and begin to fill it in with all the chocolates.
That’s it!