Chocolate Decorations

If you google for Chocolate Decorations,  you'll get a million results! All exquisite and beautiful! But when you make them yourself, however silly and disproportionate they turn out, you are on cloud nine! :-) As you'll see in the photos below, my chocolate decorations were silly and random. But they did a fantastic job of beautifying my cake! (that's a mystery until August 30th!)

There's something called TEMPERING the chocolate. Its the process of heating the chocolate to a precise degree & then immediately cooling until it reaches a degree. Now, we (read: I) can get into the advanced, complicated stuff later on.. Today, its gonna be the easy way of decorating with chocolate!

You'll need -
Modelling Chocolate / Baking Chocolate / Cooking Chocolat
Parchment Paper / Butter Paper
Zip Lock Bag



Method -
1. Melt the chocolate in microwave for 1 minute or use the double boiler method to melt the chocolate.

2. Make sure there are no lumps. Beat the chocolate well with a spoon. Pour into a zip lock bag or any plastic bag. Depending upon how thick or thin you want your decoration to be, cut the tip off.

3. Line a parchment paper on a flat surface & draw designs. You can keep a template below the parchment pare & draw accordingly. I just scribbled. :-)

                           
4. Let it cool for 10 minutes. (Or you could place it in the freezer for 5 minutes)

5. Very VERY gently, pull away the paper from the chocolate. Store in refrigerator until use.

Your Chocolate decoration is READY! :-)

You can use these to decorate cakes, brownies, desserts like mousse, ice cream etc!