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Tuesday 30 August 2011

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!

6 comments:

  1. Arre this is amazing! Kabhi socha hi nahi tha!

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  2. thanks Neha
    @Nothing- :) But you cant do it with apna Diary milk. get Morde modelling chocolate

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  5. Hey there!

    Tempering chocolate is really important, especially if you're doing a cake.

    If your chocolate's not tempered then it will melt when ever not in the fridge.

    Nice pictures though!

    http://www.ironwhisk.com/2011/10/how-to-temper-chocolate-2/

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Thanks for the feedback! :-)

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