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Step 7Finishing Touches
The Mega Rochers can be given as is, but 80% of a gift is presentation, specially food based gifts.
I didn't have time to make big version's of the brown paper cups, so I only printed out enlarged versions of the Ferrero Rocher logo on sticker paper (and put on 3 layers of clear nail polish to give it a glossy finish), crinkled up gold gift wrap paper, covered up the Mega Rocher with the crinkled gift wrap, taped it to prevent unraveling, and stuck the logo on.
Overall making and finishing 3 and a half Mega Rochers took around 10 hours, including the time in the fridge and time that it took to learn and experiment.
If there are any suggestions of recommendations that could make future versions better, feel free to comment.
I didn't have time to make big version's of the brown paper cups, so I only printed out enlarged versions of the Ferrero Rocher logo on sticker paper (and put on 3 layers of clear nail polish to give it a glossy finish), crinkled up gold gift wrap paper, covered up the Mega Rocher with the crinkled gift wrap, taped it to prevent unraveling, and stuck the logo on.
Overall making and finishing 3 and a half Mega Rochers took around 10 hours, including the time in the fridge and time that it took to learn and experiment.
If there are any suggestions of recommendations that could make future versions better, feel free to comment.
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with all these Mega Rochers you are really spoiling-us :)
Jokes aside, you might be interested in knowing that the hazelnuts used to produce the Rocher are not just any hazelnut but a specific "species" called Tonda Gentile Piemontese (gentle roud piemontese) which is typical of southern Piedmont in Italy. As far as I know Ferrero absorbs a significant share of the local production and they tried more than once to source their hazelnuts elsewhere. They tried with different qualities of hazelnut, and with similar types imported from Turkey and northern Africa but they consistently failed and ended up wasting an awful lot of production because the other hazelnuts simply did not cut it.
Besides the relative interest you might have in the little story, my point is that if they have gone to those lengths is because the hazelnut is a key element in the final flavour. This means that, if you cannot come by the original thing, smaller-scale tests with different hazelnuts brands might improve the recipe even further.
Piedmont writer :D