Suggestions for making cheap chocs look expensive?

jetty

Do they have their own brand called 'poundland chocolates'? Which chocs are we talking about?

kendalls_cave

not sure if poundland make them, but mine are by "Kensington" seashells

Legacy

I'm skint too this year, so have done "homemade chocolate mini christmas puds" for the neighbours. Dead easy to make. You need:

1 x cheap big bar of dark chocolate
1 x cheap big bar of white chocolate
1 x cheapest large xmas pud you can find (mine was from the 99p shop)
some icing sugar, tiny bit of butter
and, a splash of anything alcoholic (rum/whiskey/pimms/gin/baileys/anything u have open lurking at the back of the cupboard).

Melt the dark choc in the microwave, add a crumbled up xmas pudding and mix together with a splash of booze. When cooled, roll into about 15-20 round balls and refridgerate. These are the mini puds.
In the meantime, melt the white choc in the microwave, add enough icing sugar and butter to make a paste and put a "blob" on each of the puds. Then decorate with a bit of cherry on top if you want to get artisitic!

Wrap sets of 3 or 5 in selophane.. they look really expensive and cost very little oh, and taste great, even if you dont like xmas pudding normally, like me! So much for the diet! :rolleyes:

Should look a bit like this:
:santa2:

skiTTish

Personally i would use them chopped up in place of choc chips and make some stonking chocolate muffins and give them as gifts instead

S1976

Hi, If you can stretch to some glasses - (even most expensive gifts use cheap glasses) or cheap white mugs, you could split say a tin of quality street or roses or both - usually people have favourites like mine are the caramel barrels, and for each person focus on one type of sweet - like strawberry creams for grandad etc etc etc ... wrap them up nice and fancy - and decorate the cup/glass to match - chocs in the container and away you go.

Hell you could even buy the white mugs, marchmallows a chocolate sachet, add a spoon if you like - and bingo you've made hot chocolate mug that sells for 5 pound plus in shops like Boots, and Marks

Bougainvillea

Top Iced cake bar 400g reduced to 53p (was £2)

I used this to make the cakes below using this cake, but removed the icing first. They tasted quite delicious but looked a bit like (home made) truffles, as I picked up milk instead of white chocolate. Thank you for a great recipe. Any ideas what to do with all the spare icing and mazipan?

Legacy wrote: »

I'm skint too this year, so have done "homemade chocolate mini christmas puds" for the neighbours. Dead easy to make. You need:

1 x cheap big bar of dark chocolate
1 x cheap big bar of white chocolate
1 x cheapest large xmas pud you can find (mine was from the 99p shop)
some icing sugar, tiny bit of butter
and, a splash of anything alcoholic (rum/whiskey/pimms/gin/baileys/anything u have open lurking at the back of the cupboard).

Melt the dark choc in the microwave, add a crumbled up xmas pudding and mix together with a splash of booze. When cooled, roll into about 15-20 round balls and refridgerate. These are the mini puds.
In the meantime, melt the white choc in the microwave, add enough icing sugar and butter to make a paste and put a "blob" on each of the puds. Then decorate with a bit of cherry on top if you want to get artisitic!

Wrap sets of 3 or 5 in selophane.. they look really expensive and cost very little oh, and taste great, even if you dont like xmas pudding normally, like me! So much for the diet! :rolleyes:

Should look a bit like this:
:santa2: