Would you like a chocolate with that wine?

I'm not quite sure where I got this idea, but it can make giving a bottle of wine look just a little more exciting, that is if you are not my sister.  Nothing excites her like a bottle of wine.  Thank goodness she doesn't know about my blog!  Yep, she's the same one that says I have too much time on my hands. LOL

This is a nice easy project and  you can do your grapes in
whatever colour cellophane you like.  I have used  Maltesers but you could use any round chocolate.  You will, however, then need to cut the size of your squares of paper accordingly.


What you need:
round chocolates
Thin wires of approximately 10cm
1 florist wire
 Florist tape
 Cellophane in colour of choice


Cut squares of cellophane big enough to wrap around your chocolates.  Because I am a little 'arty farty' I like to do a contrasting colour for a few of the grapes just to give the bunch a bit of a glow.  Minimum of chocolates I would cover would be twenty.  Any less than this and your bunch will look a little sad.  You need to wrap your wire tight enough to keep the paper together but not so tight that you won't be able to pull your chocolates out of the bunch one at a time.

 When you have covered all your chocolates you can start twisting the grapes together with the bits of wire that were left poking out.  Start from the bottom grape and work your way to the top where the main stem would be.



If you need to trim a little of the cellophane away from your wrapped chocolates, do so before attaching the chocolate to the bunch. When you have joined them all together, by twisting all the wires into one neat wire, you will need to attach the florist wire to this.  Then cover all the wire with florist tape.  This will make the join look a little neater.

Make a loop of the wire.  Make it big enough to fit around your wine bottle. With the left over wire you can make a tendril by twisting it in little loops.  As you can see on the top photos, I have also added a few artificial green leaves.  These are ivy leaves but if you could find grape leaves that would look even better.
Enjoy and maybe don't forget to tell the person you are giving this gift to that the grapes are edible.  I've been making these for a few years and my husband looked surprised when I said I needed to take a photo of the completed chocolate thingies.  Chocolate thingies????? What chocolate thingies????? They've got chocolates in them????