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Midi Chocolate Football

This was supposed to be a celebration for England winning the World Cup,
instead it is a homage to the boys who were cheated again.

For this you will need

2x 200g Chocolate @ 48p each (98p)
1x Mini Football @ 99p (For the mold,Any Pattern Will do)
1x Packet of Mini Footballs @ 30p (For Tasting and comparison)

Total cost £2.27

Four bars of Tesco value chocolate beside a rubber toy ball and small foil footballs

Right first up you need to take your ball and cut a hole not to big, then
break up two bars of the chocolate into a bowl, now for the melting I opted
for the more modern method of nuking it for a minute (Note the wearing of a
PIMP THAT SNACK T-shirt)

Stirring melted chocolate in a glass bowl, wearing a Snack Pimp At Work t-shirt

Next beat it in the bowl to make sure sure all of that chocolate is melted
(Note the T-shirt), now you need to pour the melted chocolate into your ball
first problem was what to put the ball in to stop it rolling away, the
solution a measuring cup (God bless the Americans and there daft way of
measuring stuff). Second problem was the funnel was to small, discard this
and use a bigger one.

Pouring melted chocolate from a bowl through a white funnel into the ball mould

That’s better. Pour it all in until full, now put it in the freezer for a
couple of hours (Note the T-Shirt again).

Placing a white bowl into the open fridge, wearing the Snack Pimp At Work t-shirt

Once set take it out and cut the ball off, this was trimmed and tidied up a
bit to give a ball shape, to make it all the more I wrapped it in some
football pattern paper.
This involved a search on the Net for the correct patten (God bless Google),
the pattern was then edited and coloured using Windows paint and finally
Printed direct onto Tin foil then left overnight to dry.

Slicing into a colourful rubber toy ball with a craft knife to open the mould

Peeling the split rubber ball away from the set chocolate hemisphere inside

The chocolate ball rewrapped in hand-drawn football foil, a normal foil football beside it

Foil peeled back off the solid chocolate ball, the small original unwrapped alongside

Only thing left to do is take the comparison shot and a cut section just to
prove this is solid chocolate.

The chocolate ball cracked open on a board with a bread knife, halved original in front

Mini Football weighs in at 5g and measures 6.5 cm round
Midi Football weighs in at 335g and measures 25cm round

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