My latest interest has been molded chocolates. I was browsing through a cute shop that specializes in melting chocolates and molds and discovered the possibilities are endless and a bit overwhelming! Wandering around I felt like a kid in a candy store. Oh, wait, I guess I actually was (minus the kid part)! I tend to be an impulse shopper so I took my time and finally settled on a few molds that seemed as though they would be good for beginners. Right.
Let's start with the dice. Very simple mold. White dots, red chocolate. Easy. Except that I made the chocolate dots too thick, so when I added the red chocolate, the white melted and ran into the red. And the air bubbles! I did tap the mold against the counter to rid the chocolate of air bubbles, as is recommended. However, I wasn't entirely successful and there were random, tiny holes in my dice.
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| Examples of the dice should NOT look. ;) |
Sigh. Obviously chocolate molding isn't as easy as I thought it would be! I'd prefer to ice cookies any day of the week. Since I purchased the chocolates and molds, though, I persevered and finally had some decent looking dice. I baked chocolate cupcakes, mixed up some buttercream icing, and topped them with the chocolate dice. These will be cute for a casino theme party. I think the finished product looks great! Unfortunately, my husband had our "good" camera while I was making these chocolates, so I was not able to document the process of making the dice. I also made chocolate covered Oreos, which I'll cover in another post, that I was not able to document, as well.. When making my next set of chocolates I will definitely be photographing the process!
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