Marshmallow Wands Centerpiece

Here is an simple yet effective edible centerpiece, the kids will love helping make it as much as they will love eating it. Makes around 15 wands.

Ingredients

Marshmallows

100’s and 1000’s

Cooking chocolate melted

Bamboo skewers

For the centerpiece

Empty Tissue box

Tissue Paper

Any paper to wrap the box

Metal skewer

Ribbon

Cut the empty tissue box so that you have a

big and a small end

With both open ends facing down put the small end inside 

the big end. Wrap the box in any paper you want (plain paper, 

wrapping paper, just so you cant see the tissue box through

 the tissue paper.)

Once wrapped, use the metal skewer to peirce holes through

 the box, making sure to go through both ends of the tissue 

box and to space them far enough apart to fit the marshmallow

wands.

Put 4 Marshmallows onto the blunt end of the skewers.

Hold the marshmallos over the melted chocolate and drizzle 

the chocolate over the marshmallow wand.

Dip the marshmallow wands into the 100’s and 1000’s and put into the box. Tie some ribbon around the base of the wands.When the box is full place the box on top of the sheet of tissue paper and bring up the sides of the box, use some more ribbon to hold it up over the box. If you cant get all the wands to fit into the box, just keep them aside and use them to replace ones that get eaten, or make 2 boxes.

Costing

This center piece uses mostly ingredients left over from making the Little Tea Cups*. I have seen individual wands for sale at markets for between $1 -$2. They can be made for a fraction of the cost and put in a centrepiece.

*Marshmallows on special $2.00 packet. Using 1 pack and the half a pack left over* $3

*Cooking Chocolate $3.30 about a 1/3 of a pack - $1.10

*100’s and 1000’s $1.69 1/10 of a pack - 17c

*skewers - $2.75 1/10 of a pack 27c

*Tissue Paper - $1.24 1/8 pack 15c

*ribbon – 50c a roll ¼ roll 13c

TOTAL COST = $4.82 or 31 cents each.

Shopping bill = $6.43 (skewers, ribbon, tissue paper  and extra pack of marshmallows)

Look out for our ideas to use up the left over chocolate and tissue paper.