Anna's Edible Arrangements: Latissa's New House

  10-20-10
Ok so I'm a little late with Latissa's house warming gift.   Latissa, my coworker, wanted me to make her a cherry lemonade cupcake. I haven't quite mastered making "only one" cupcake so I made her a dozen and experimented with a cream filling in half of them.  As I write...the verdict is still out on which ones she preferred.  Anyway, while we were at work recently my mind came up with an idea that I thought would make a perfect house warming gift. A house made out of chocolate and her surprise cupcake inside. Part of the reason I was a little late with Latissa's gift was due to the fact that I had to order a house mold. No...Not HOUSE MOLD, a mold of a house    I ordered the mold but it was a bit smaller than I thought. So I made a tiny cherry lemonade cupcake for the inside of the house and regular sized ones because there's no such thing as just 1 cupcake.
The house was made out of toffee chocolate. I whipped up a few peanut clusters with the extra toffee chocolate because I knew Latissa liked peanut clusters. I added her address (minus the Street) to give it an even more personal touch. Making tiny numbers using a toothpick was a challenge!!!  The house wasn't as perfect as I would've liked but it was my very 1st house. I haven't mastered painting with chocolate just yet. It's really hard and time consuming to add multiple colors of chocolate. I just thought the windows and doors would stand out more if they were framed in another color. Latissa said she also liked white chocolate so white it was.
SO NOW IT'S TIME TO MOVE IN...Oh that's right, she's already moved.

First up ... cherries tossed into the cherry cake batter.

And a few tiny ones minus the 2 I ate. (I had to test them)
I only needed 1 for inside the house anyway.

And here's the beginning of a tiny
cherry lemonade cupcake.

There all finished. Probably more icing than cake?

I ate the other 2 without icing.

I REALLY was testing them!

Now inside Latissa's toffee chocolate house.
Who needs furniture when ya have cupcakes.

Ok a little less glare in this shot.

I had to remove the cupcake to get the clusters inside.
I would've had lemonade iced toffee chocolate peanut clusters
if I had tried to add the clusters with
the cupcake already inside.

Ok a little less glare.
Lemonade iced
toffee chocolate peanut clusters.....NO

Less glare.

I had a little bit of trouble sealing this side of the house because the chocolate had toffee in it. The chunks made
some of the edges rough. Next time I mold the chocolate I'll fill the edges with plain chocolate if there are other
ingredients in the chocolate (like toffee or peanuts). That way my edges will be smoother.