Sweet Trees

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  Step 1

  I started by making the filling for the pot.

  Now you can buy something like plater of paris, but I went for the cheap option and make some salt dough - this takes longer to dry out but I made it using things I found round the house so didn't need to spend a penny.

  To make this (for 2 plant pots) use:
  200g of flour
  100g of salt
  few dashes of red food colouring
  and as much water as you need to make this into a dough texture (less than 1/2 a cup)

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  Step 2

  Take your pot and fill it with the dough, leaving a gap at the top as it will rise slightly

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  Step 3

  Cover your piece of wooden dowelling in ribbon, gluing it as you go so it stays in place

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  Step 4

  Put the dowelling through the middle of the dough until it reaches the bottom.

  At this point I took it back out and put some hot glue on the bottom of the hole before putting the dowelling back in for extra sturdiness

  I then left my pot next to a heater overnight to dry out the salt dough, but if you have something like an airing cupboard than that works very well

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  Step 5

  Once your salt dough is keeping the dowelling sturdy in the pot, you can glue your loveheart sweets round the outside of the pot

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  Step 6

  Take your polystyrene ball and push it onto the top of the dowelling

  Again, I took mine back off and added some hot glue into the hole before putting it back on

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  Step 7

  Cover the ball in tissue and tie it tight round the bottom of the ball

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  Step 8

  Now this is where you need to make a choice. you can either stick your sweets on with cocktail sticks or melted chocolate

  If you are using cocktail sticks then leave the tissue paper as is.

  However I tried using cocktail sticks but the maltesers kept breaking when I tried to put them on so I opted for melted chocolate instead

  This meant I had to cut the tissue off the ball but I left the frilly bit of the tissue on the bottom as an extra decoration

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  Step 9

  I melted some plain chocolate and spread it all over the ball, including the bottom

  To reach the bottom I had to push the remaining tissue down

  When you start placing your sweets on you might notice them slipping down the ball - this means the chocolate is too thin. If this happens then leave the chocolate to harden up a bit and then try again.

  You can also put a bit extra chocolate on the bottom of your sweet to give it something extra to stick to

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  Step 10

  Repeat the process until you have covered the whole ball with your sweets

  For this one I cut the maltesers in half before sticking them on so that you got the two tone effect

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  Step 11

  Once you have made 1 you will be addicted so try out different sweets and patterns and have all your friends and family drooling

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