To give to a dish the finished and at the same time unique look, it should be decorated. Figures from chocolate – a great find for fans of tasty beautiful desserts. Besides it isn't difficult to make them at all.
It is required to you
- molds for chocolate;
- chocolate bars;
- food color;
- parchment;
- pencil;
- metal molds for cookies.
Instruction
1. Small break a chocolate tile and kindle on a water bath. Now pour the kindled chocolate in any capacity and cool it in the freezer. It is necessary to cool chocolate rather long time until weight begins to harden. After that heat chocolate once again to operating temperature at intensive stirring. Operating temperature for milk chocolate is 30-32 degrees, and for white – 28–30 degrees. These actions are necessary in order that future product gained pleasant gloss, hardness and fragility. The chocolate prepared thus will have uniform structure, pleasant aroma and a long expiration date.
2. Make figures by means of special forms for chocolate. They can be bought in shops of ware, confectionery supermarkets, in various online stores offering goods for confectioners. Carefully wipe a form with a towel, paying attention to all bends and small dredging.
3. Accurately fill a form with chocolate, without adding to the very top. Slowly knock with a form on a table that there was all air, and chocolate was evenly distributed on all dredging. To make sure that there is no air bubble left in a figure, raise a form, and look at a product bottom.
4. Place the filled forms in the fridge. Time of hardening depends on the figure size. On average 10-30 minutes are necessary. To be sure that chocolate completely stiffened, look at a mold bottom. Color has to be uniform. Silvery strips and shadows on a figure shouldn't be looked through.
5. Lay a clean towel on a table. Turn a form and quietly knock it on a table. Figures will drop out on a towel.
6. Use chocolate of various flowers to receive more interesting and unusual figures. It is possible to combine several types of chocolate in one mold, giving to each product the unique look and taste.
7. Make chocolate figures by means of a cliche if you have no special forms. For this purpose apply various patterns on parchment paper (it is possible to translate the printed-out pictures).
8. Prepare chocolate as well as in 1 step. Fill with it pergament корнетик or a small cellophane bag. Cut off a nose at a package. Apply chocolate on paper and let's stiffen completely in the fridge. Remove the stiffened figures a cold sharp knife. It is necessary to do it quickly and very accurately.
9. Apply a thin film of chocolate on the sheet of parchment leave to stiffen. It is possible to cut out chocolate figures from the received layer various metal molds. For this purpose it is necessary to press strongly a mold on chocolate layer, to hook a figure a knife and to remove carefully from parchment.