Welcome to howtocookthat.net, I'm Ann Reardon.
Today I am going to show you how to make chocolate flowers.
To start with you're going to need a rolling pin or something round, two thin strips of
baking paper, some melted chocolate, sticky tape and a Ziploc bag.
Pour your chocolate into the Ziploc bag and then cut off one corner.
Start with a small cut because you can always make it bigger if it's too small.
I'll show you a few different petals.
First of all pipe some circles in a row on the baking paper.
And then I like to put the bag of chocolate into a bowl to stop it tipping out just bend
the tip upwards.
Take a second sheet of baking paper and place it over the top of your chocolate and then
using your thumb or your finger, push the chocolate upwards making it into a petal shape.
Then peel the top sheet off, and this makes them very thin so they have that petal-like
look to them.
And then place the sheet over the rolling pin so that the petals curl around and then
once they set carefully peel them off the paper.
For a second time, pipe some circles of chocolate and this time spread them out using a spoon
to make them elongated and then cover them as before.
Make sure you are using tempered chocolate; otherwise your petals are going to melt just
as soon as you take them out of the fridge.
If you're not sure what tempered chocolate is then click on the link in the description
below this video to go to the chocolate playlist and in there you will find a video on how
to temper chocolate and another video on what chocolate to use for chocolate decorations.
This type of petal that we've just made curls over at the top like in a flower that has
been open for awhile
The third type of petals that we are going to make are the smaller ones that you'll need
for the center of your flower.
For those place a circle of chocolate on your baking paper as you did before, spread them
out using a spoon and then a second sheet of baking paper over the top and spread them
out.
Peel it off to make them thin, then put another sheet of baking paper over the top and roll
it up into a tube and use some sticky tape to keep it in that tube shape and then just
allow it to set.
And then when you take them off the baking paper you can see that you've got those tight
smaller petals for the center of your flower.
To put your flower together use a cookie cutter ring and place a dollop of chocolate in the
middle and then starting with the outer bigger petals, put them around the edge, usually
4 or 5 petals is ideal.
Then I'm going to use the petals that curl over a little bit on the next row and then
the smaller tighter chocolate petals right in the center.
If you don't have a cookie cutter ring that's circle like that, you can just improvise and
use some paper towel rolled into a circle or anything that you have that that's sort
of shape just to give the petals some support while the chocolate is setting.
Once the chocolate is set you can take your flowers and place them where you needed them.
For example in this one is on top of the chocolate cake.
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