Emi-Lou London : Homemade Christmas in a box.

This week was my final one before Christmas and I wanted to make the guys I work with a special treat to go with their Christmas cards. Last year I made homemade truffles which went down extremely well, so this year I wanted to do something that would hopefully be equally as popular but due to limited time something that was quick and easy too.

I bought some bright red flat pack boxes from a local craft store to display them in and set to my chocolaty task.

What you need:
300g Milk / Dark chocolate
100g shelled pistachios
70g dried cranberries
100g White chocolate
3 Crunchie bars

Equipment:
A high sided baking tray about 13cm / 23cm.
(So long as it's square / rectangular it doesn't really matter!)
Foil or greaseproof paper

The method:

Break all the chocolate up and put to the side (milk and white in separate bowls)
Place the milk/dark chocolate pieces in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of water. Heat the water to boiling, then remove from the heat and allow the chocolate to melt slowly- stirring from time to time

While the chocolate's still melting line the tin with grease proof paper or tin foil
When the chocolate has melted, stir in the pistachios, crunchie and cranberries
Pour in to the lined tin and allow to cool in the fridge

Whilst my chocolate was cooling in the fridge I set up my flat pack gift boxes and lined them all with a square of foil.

Melt the white chocolate in the same way in a separate bowl
When the milk/dark chocolate has almost set (but be sure not to let it set completely, or the top layer of chocolate will not stick to the milk/dark chocolate)

Pour the white chocolate over the top to make a second layer. Try to manoeuvre it by picking the tray up and tipping it from side to side rather than using a spatular to try and even it out as (my mistake) it can mix with any chocolate that hasn't quite cooled.