A slightly different dessert...

cabriolean

As we all know Valentine's day is coming up, this means that soon the shelves will be flooded with reduced chocolate. My family grabbed a £2.99 box of 64 very nice chocolates from an M&S outlet.
This works out at about 4.5p per chocolate and these could be used as favours or as dessert. They can be arranged to look very nice (in my opinion) and could maybe serve as a centrepiece as well as dessert.

(25 of them arranged into a rough tower, one of my flatmates has been very generous with his alcohol)
You can also make mini towers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87420577@N04/8443434666/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87420577@N04/8442341931/in/photostream
I think they'd look very nice and impressive arranged on a cake stand and should work out cheaper per person than most cakes, so if you had a topper cake and then tiers of chocolates that could look pretty nice, not to mention, so long as they don't get too hot practically nothing can go wrong with them on the day.
You could get 320 for a little less than £15
P.S. the most shown on my flickr is 37, this is because they have already had a few casualties by family and flatmates

notanewuser

Chocolate is not a dessert however you stack it on a plate.

cabriolean

notanewuser wrote: »

Chocolate is not a dessert however you stack it on a plate.

Lots of people are having candy buffets, I don't see sweets as more of a dessert than chocolates.

74jax

What date is on your chocolates?

cabriolean

Mine were cheap because they're supposed to be eaten by the 13th, but I've seen similar boxes at the same price on the 15th-20th of February.

sheeppappar

fab idea.. we weren't going to have a cake but now one of the guests has offered to make one instead of a present.. the only thing is we have 150 guests and i wouldn't dream of asking for a cake big enough to feed 150! so the choc tiers could be a brilliant solution!

Scotsbride

cool idea many people don't want anything heavy after a meal/buffet