Welcome to How To Cook That, I'm Ann Reardon and this week I'm attempting to
make a 🏀👟shoe out of solid chocolate! First things first I need to make a mold
using reusable food safe molding gel and to do that I need a container. So I'm
going to use Lego to make a container so I can get it as close to the shoe as
possible so we don't need as much molding gel and I'm using a new shoe for
obvious reasons. I hope it's obvious 😜 Just build the Lego walls up higher and
higher around the shoe all the way up to the top. Now I ended up making it go
across the front of the shoe so we don't use as much mold and gel because we're
going to need to fill it all the way up to the height of the back of the shoe. To
stop the molding gel from going inside the shoe I'm going to stuff it full of
reusable plastic shopping bags really as tightly as I can just shoving them in
there and then having one that sort of rounded on top. Make sure when you look
at the shoe from the side the bags are not visible you don't want them sticking
out the top just a little bit below that top level. I've never done this
before and I am concerned that the molding gel is going to seep into the
tiny holes in the fabric and get stuck in the shoe making the two inseparable,
so to try and prevent that from happening I'm gonna spray it with
cooking oil ... I don't even know if this will work but I guess we'll find out
when we unlock the shoe. Pour some molding gel into the base of your container so
that we can get the imprint of the sole then wiggle the shoe back in ... just
pushing that down there and then pour some more molding gel in. The shoe is
kind of floating to the top and going to one side so I'm going to add a piece of
Lego to hold it down and let that bit set first. Once that set you can take
that Lego off and pour in more gel ... unfortunately this is the last of my
molding gel and it's nowhere near enough so I'm going to have to pause filming
this video here and go order some more reusable molding gel 🤯
Now we can get back into it ... melt your molding gel and then fill up the
container all the way up to the top and then of course we're going to have to
wait for this molding gel to set. Finally it is set and it's time to break off all
the Lego that we carefully built up so that we can get into the mold. Alright so
now we have a shoe encased in molding gel and my concern is of course are we
going to be able to get it out or has that molding gel seeped into the fabric
and we'll never get the shoe apart. We also have to think about where we want
the joint to be ... I don't want it at the top or over the laces because that's too
complicated an area so I'm going to cut across the bottom and down the back and
see if we can get this thing out. The gel is quite soft so you can just run a
knife over it and then gently pull the two edges apart to check you've cut the
whole way through. In areas where it's a bit thicker like at the toe of the shoe
because the toy sits a little bit up off the ground
if you haven't got all the way through just hold it open and then cut along the
same line until you're through. Then do the same down the back of the shoe that
should do and then let's see if we can get this thing out. It will come off the
vinyl because that's smooth I thought it would come off there but I'm more
worried about the actual fabric. We did oil it so far it seems to be slowly
coming off if I push it with my fingers ... you can see in there it is lifting off
wonderful, you have no idea what a relief that is because I actually really
thought they were going to get fused together and then that would be the end
of this video ... goodbye finished fail! Hopefully the lace area works as well
that's also very intricate. I'm just using my fingers to gently sort of reach
in and ease it off on both sides and then finally we can lift out the shoe.
Hmm I can see some molding gel here and around the laces that's going to mean
our mold might not be looking great because we've lost some of our gel so we
will have lost some of our detail. any little bits that are sticking a long
way out that's just going to get the chocolates stuck in it so I'm going to
trim those off they will be from where the gel has gone into a hole in the shoe
and then get rid of any little loose bits of gel that have broken off and
then after that we're just gonna have to sort out the problems once it's actually
chocolate and then just really carve it and try and fix it.
it looks pretty good we'll see how it goes. While I was getting the shoe out of
the mold it's ripped a bit here ... so what I'm gonna do is just put a little bit of
melted molding gel into the gap and glue the two pieces back together and do the
same thing on the other side. that's looking better and then I'm also going
to add some extra gel along the back so that we only have an opening at the top
because I don't want the chocolate to pour out obviously. How much chocolate do
you think we'll need to fill the chocolate shoes do you reckon one two
three four five six seven eight nine blocks will be enough? I'm kind of hoping
so because that is a lot of chocolate! Then you want to take that chocolate, melt it
and temper it ... if you don't know how to temper chocolate click on HowToCookThat
under this video and it will take you through to my channel and you'll
find a video there called 'Chocolate Secrets'. If you don't temper your
chocolate then anything that you make out of chocolate will be very soft and
not properly set at room temperature unless of course you're using fake
chocolate with vegetable fat in it but then that doesn't taste very nice so we
don't want to do that. It's time to fill the shoe just open up the sole and pour
in the melted chocolate. I've put mine into a jug to make this bit a little bit
easier to handle. Keep filling it up until it's over full and then tap on the
sides to get rid of any air bubbles. We don't want bubbles or little air
pockets on the details of the shoe because chocolate is quite thick if you
don't do this then you are definitely going to get air bubbles. Because there
is so much chocolate I am concerned that it's too heavy for the mold and it's
just gonna split open so I'm gonna support it with some tape around the
whole thing. That looks a bit more secure. Now we can
scrape off the extra chocolate from the top I just put that back in the bowl and
add some tape across to hold it together at the join of the sole of the shoe. Let
me know in the comments how much chocolate you think it took to fill the
shoe? Just let me know in grams or ounces whatever country you're from and I will
pin the comment that is correct or the closest to correct 📌 Now we're going to
have to wait till tomorrow to be sure that this is set right the way through.
The moment of truth ... cut off the tape and let's get this thing out of the mold so
we can see if it looks like a shoe or just a mess!
Look at that ... that's not too bad we've got to do a bit of work on it obviously
and it is a little bit on the wide side where the chocolate has pushed the mold a little
bit out. Here at the join of the mold where we had cut down the back the
chocolate's seeped into that cut so we need to trim that extra off. I like using
a serrated knife for taking off bigger chunks and then just swap to a blade to
just shave off small amounts because that leaves it looking nice and smooth.
This next process is just like carving but you've already got a really good
starting point you know exactly where everything is and how deep it goes you
just need to neaten it up especially around this laces area where the gel went
under the laces so when we remove the shoe some of the gel from the top of the
laces came with it. So our mold wasn't quite correct. Despite my best efforts
there are still a few air bubbles so I'm going to just fill those with some
chocolate because you don't usually see holes like that in shoes 👟 Well I hope not
anyway not when they're new. And there are a couple of spots again on the laces
where we need a little bit of repair. Just look at the actual shoe and see
what it's supposed to look like and then just use some chocolate in a piping bag
just to fix that up again. It was mainly the loops along the laces there that
needed fixing everything else was pretty good and so that doesn't look too bad
but I think I'd rather see it in gold so I'm just going to brush the whole thing
with edible gold luster dust! I love the way this just sticks
to the chocolate 💝 I am gonna leave the sole brown and then just use a skewer or
a toothpick to run along the lines on the shoe so that they're more defined.
Pop that into a shoe box and you've got an epic present! Share this video with a
friend you'd like to give this to click here for the channel here for more
chocolate creations here for cakes and here for desserts. Make it a great week
by loving others and I'll see you on Friday 💕