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Creating
a Chocolate Sunflower
(can be done with royal icing too - click here for Royal
Icing Recipe)
1. Photocopy the template to the desired size. Tape the
template on a sheet pan or flat surface. cover the template
with parchment paper.
2. Melt 1/2 cup of ark chocolate and 2 cups of white chocolate.
3. Divide the white chocolate among 5 bowls (bowls 1 and
2 should have slightly more chocolate than bowls 3, 4 and
5). Tint the two fuller bowls yellow and orange and, using
the color chart below tint the remaning three red-orange,
autumn, green and burnt sienna. Pour the dark chocolate and
the colored chocolates into 6 separate pastry cones or you
can use baggies and nip a hole in one corner.
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4. Cut a very small hole in the dark chocolate pasty
cone. With a fine line, trace the outline of the sunflower,
including all of the seeds. |
5. Still using the pastry cone of chocolate, pipe an
additional line around the edge of the seeds. Before
it sets, use the paintbrush to gently feather the chocolate
in the direction fo the petal, working from the base
to the top. Pipe a dot of chocolate in the center of
the sunflower and spread it with the paintbrush in a
circular motion, being careful not to wipe off the seed
lines. You should be able to still see the parchment
through these semi=transparent "shadows". |
6. With the red-orange, pipe
thin lines around the edge of
the outer petals where they touch
the center petals. use
the brush to blend it toward the tip of each petal.
7. With the orange, pipe thin lines around the outer
edge of the seeds. use the brush to blend it toward
the tip of the petals. Pipe an orange circle inside
the seeds, halfway from the center, then gently blend
the line into the seeds.
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8. Fill in the center petals with yellow. put a drop
of yellow in the center of the sunflower and blend with
the brush.
9. Fill in the outer petals with orange. |
10.
Pipe a ring of autumn green around the center of the
sunflower. Blend gently with a paintbrush.
11. Fill in with burnt sienna, overlapping the colors
for stability. Set aside to harden
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12. When hardened, carefully flip the design and gently
peel off the parchment paper. |
Mixing colors
Color |
Frosting - Tinting using food coloring |
Wafer Chocolate Candies |
Red-Orange |
3 parts red + 4 parts orange |
5 orange wafers and 3 red wafers |
Autumn Green |
3 parts green + 1 part orange + 1 part yellow + 1 part
brown |
3 green wafers, 1 yellow wafer, 1 orange wafter and
5 chocolate wafers |
Exerpt
from The Whimsicalbakehouse Book
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