To give the dish a finished and at the same time unique look, it must be decorated. Chocolate figurines are a great find for lovers of delicious beautiful desserts. In addition, making them is not at all difficult.
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You will need
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- chocolate molds;
- chocolate bars
- food coloring;
- parchment;
- pencil;
- metal cookie cutters.
Instruction manual
1
Finely smash the chocolate bar and melt in a water bath. Now pour the melted chocolate into any container and refrigerate it in the freezer. It is necessary to cool the chocolate for a sufficiently long time until the mass begins to harden. After that, heat the chocolate again to operating temperature with vigorous stirring. The working temperature for milk chocolate is 30-32 degrees, and for white - 28-30 degrees. These actions are necessary in order for the future product to acquire a pleasant shine, hardness and fragility. Chocolate prepared in this way will have a uniform structure, a pleasant aroma and a long shelf life.
2
Make figures using special chocolate molds. They can be bought at ware shops, confectionery supermarkets, in various online stores offering goods for confectioners. Wipe the form thoroughly with a towel, paying attention to all bends and small grooves.
3
Gently fill the mold with chocolate, without adding to the top. Slowly tap the mold on the table so that all the air comes out, and the chocolate is evenly distributed over all the recesses. To make sure that there are no air bubbles inside the figure, raise the shape and look at the bottom of the product.
4
Place filled forms in the refrigerator. Hardening time depends on the size of the figure. On average, it takes 10-30 minutes. To be sure that the chocolate is completely frozen, look at the bottom of the mold. Color should be uniform. No silver stripes or shadows should be visible on the figure.
5
Lay a clean towel on the table. Turn the form over and gently tap it on the table. Figures will fall on a towel.
6
Use chocolate of various colors to get more interesting and unusual figures. You can combine several types of chocolate in one mold, giving each product its own unique look and taste.
7
Make chocolate figures using a stencil if you do not have special shapes. To do this, apply various patterns on parchment paper (you can translate printed pictures).
8
Prepare the chocolate in the same way as in step 1. Fill them with parchment cornet or a small plastic bag. Cut the nose off the bag. Put chocolate on paper and let it completely freeze in the refrigerator. Remove frozen figurines with a cold sharp knife. This must be done quickly and very carefully.
9
Put a thin layer of chocolate on a sheet of parchment and let it harden. From the resulting layer, you can cut chocolate figures with various metal molds. To do this, use a mold to press firmly on the chocolate layer, pry the figure with a knife and carefully remove it from the parchment.
note
Try not to touch the chocolate with your fingers so that no prints remain on the surface. Store chocolate figures in the refrigerator by transferring them with parchment paper.
Useful advice
If the figures did not lag behind the mold when you took them out, it means that the chocolate is not frozen sufficiently. Everything can be fixed by re-melting the chocolate and pouring it into the mold. Next time, hold the molds in the refrigerator longer.
To get colorful chocolate, use food coloring. By adding a small amount of dye to white chocolate, you can get a wide variety of colors and shades. Figurines can be used not only as decoration, but also as an independent dessert, which children will especially like.