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Truffle Topiary Centerpiece

This impressive, edible centerpiece from our Test Kitchen takes truffles to new heights! Set out the extras on plates or package them for guests to take home.

60-70 ServingsPrep: 45 min.

Ingredients

Gold spray paint
5-inch clay pot
Floral foam to fit inside pot
New small flat paintbrush
5-inch Styrofoam ball
Milk chocolate candy coating, melted (about 1/2 cup)
12-inch length of 3/8-inch wooded dowel
Double-sided transparent tape
2-1/3 yards of gold metallic cord
Craft scissors
White (tacky) glue
18-inch square of gold-flecked tulle netting
Craft wire
Two large wire-edged bows
Toothpicks
60 to 70 Coconut Truffles (recipe on opposite page)
60 to 70 paper or foil candy cups

Directions

Spray-paint clay pot gold. When dry, fill pot with floral foam.
Use paintbrush to cover Styrofoam ball with melted chocolate. Let
harden.
With a pencil, mark dowel about 1-1/2 inches from the other end.
Place several pieces of double-sided tape on dowel between markings.

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Truffle Topiary Centerpiece (continued)

Directions (continued)

Cut away excess cord and glue ends to secure.
Insert long unwrapped end of dowel straight up and down into center
of floral foam. Place pot in center of tulle netting. Bring up
netting on all sides to cover pot. Use craft wire to secure netting
to dowel just above top of pot. Arrange netting to cover wire,
trimming excess netting as desired. Attach bows to opposite sides of
top of pot. Trim ribbon ends as desired.
Use a pencil to make a hole in chocolate-covered Styrofoam ball,
centering hole inside ball. Push ball onto end of dowel until wood
dowel is covered, making sure ball and dowel are centered and
straight.
Insert a toothpick into top center of ball, leaving about a third of
the toothpick exposed. Set a truffle into a candy cup; carefully
push truffle and cup onto exposed end of toothpick. Repeat until
ball is completely covered with truffles.