Ideas for a lovely bowl of sweets on the coffee table for Christmas

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I have a nest of tables in the family sitting room. At the moment there's a tub of Celebrations on it (which although they are scrummy, is not quite the look I'm aiming for

I want to buy a nice big glass bowl (IKEA maybe) and fill with gorgeous wrapped colourful sweets.

(I don't like the Thorntons Moments, had them last year) but:

Ferrro Rochers
M&S bags of wrapped toffee and soft caramel
Chocolate coins
Thorntons Double Cream mints

Any other ideas?

Those red Lindor globes? DC will be angelic all day if bribed with one of those.

If you want a real extravagance, Mozartkugeln or a selection of those individual chocs from Carluccios.

Oo yes Lindor balls. The very best thing for christmas

No ideas, but yours sound ok

Definitely the Lindor balls. The wrappers are very festive.

Do you get green and red m&ms here? Not wrapped but festive looking.

Waitrose do a big box of colourful wrapped chocs which taste better than Cadburys chocs now Kraft have taken over.

Lindor sweets.

Here you go. Knock yourself out with this selection !

lindor balls are ace.
your ideas sound great too.

emtpy a few boxes of after eights is always popular
liquir chocs
fruit cremes
bsileys truffles?
toblerone minis
chocolate ornage minis

M&S 'The Big Selection', a 800g box of assorted toffees and soft centres for 5 quid. Similar to Roses and Q.S. but much better quality and pretty colourful wrappers.

I have a big mercuried glass bowl on my mantelpiece at Christmas, normally fill it with lindor and ferrero rocher to begin with then whatever I get given at work after that

I thought the rule for Ferrero Rocher was that they had to be arranged in a pyramid.

I buy bags of those foil wrapped choc footballs and hearts and put them in a bowl, or those foil wrapped chocolate tree decorations shaped like baubles, pine cones etc - just like a glass bowl of display baubles, but edible.

Are you looking for help with the bowl, 70, or just the sweets?

DS's god daddies have a huge glass blue and gold plate in their living room full of quality street, it actually looks kitsch and lovely.

Ah the joys of children being over 3/ having out of reach shelves! DC would've chomped her way through the WHOLE bowl if given within reach

A. Glut of chocolate coins looks amazing

I have a xmas pudding baskety thing that I fill with sweets and it sits on the piano, if your family is anything like mine though, you will need a constant supply to keep refilling your bowl

(am filling it with chocolate sprouts (3 for 2 in M&S)...perhaps not the look you are going for though)

Wally I've got a couple of big trifle bowls (sort of conical shape) and I've seen a lovely flat bowl in IKEA that I was coveting.

I've always used a wicker basket before when the DC were small but now I reckon a glass bowl would be nice.

Ferrero Rocher are available ready arranged in a pyramid .

I bought a box of M&S The Big Selection to try them out before Christmas (purely for scientific research purposes).

And I have the chocolate sprouts for DS sweet jar

I was given a box of Spanish Valor chocolates, they were beutifully wrapped in metalic paper. They were absolutely gorgeous & better than Lindor if I dare say so.

www.valorchocolate.com/