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How to make hollow chocolate figures
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Jacques Torres
Jacques Torres Chocolate, NY
Calling all Willy Wonkas! Making chocolate candy figures is easier than you may think. World famous chocolatier Jacques Torres takes you through the steps for making a very tasty chocolate monkey. It's a fun project to do with the kids.
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How to make hollow chocolate figures
- Melt dark chocolate to 100 degrees in a mixing bowl.
- Temper chocolate to a temperature of 90 degrees.
- Create a cone from parchment paper.
- Fill cone with dark chocolate.
- Push chocolate to tip of the cone.
- Cut an opening in the very tip of the cone to allow a thin stream of chocolate to be used for decorating mold.
- Use cone to decorate the mold - Create eyes, eyebrows and nose.
- Use brush to paint pants in both halves of the mold.
- Assemble both halves of the mold together and clip to secure.
- Melt and temper milk chocolate to 88 degrees.
- Pour chocolate into mold.
- Turn and rotate mold to ensure that all interior surfaces have been coated with the milk chocolate to a thickness of approximately 1/8 of an inch.
- Pour excess chocolate back into mixing bowl.
- Scrape bottom of mold along baking rack to ensure that the bottom is smooth and flat.
- Place in refrigerator for eight to ten minutes.
- Repeat the coating process to add another 1/8 of an inch of milk chocolate.
- Scrape across baking rack to ensure bottom is smooth and flat.
- Allow to cool in refrigerator for another eight to ten minutes.
- Remove from refrigerator, remove clips and separate mold. (If you have difficulty removing the molded item from the mold, bend and manipulate the mold slightly to loosen it - the item should come out easily.)
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How to make hollow chocolate figures
Chocolate (At least 2 different colors - dark, milk, white, colored)
Saucepan half filled with water
Heatproof mixing bowl large enough to rest snugly on rim of saucepan
Spatula
Small paint brush (used just for chocolate)
Hollow chocolate mold of preference. A monkey, for example. (Obtain mold at any specialized store that caters to chocolate or cake makers)
Clips to hold two halves of the mold together
Parchment paper
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How to make hollow chocolate figures
Hello, I am Jacques Torres from Jacques Torres Chocolates for Howdini, and today I'm going to show you how to mold what we call a hollow figure. So the way to do that, first, is to buy a mold. You can buy a mold of basically anything. Go to a specialized store for chocolate molds for cake makers and you will find mold for chocolates.Second step is to temper the chocolate. Tempering chocolate is always a little bit intimidating. You have to melt the chocolates to about 100 degrees then let the chocolate crystallize on the side. When, the crystallization starts just scrape the sides with a spatula and mix it. If the temperature goes too much down, use a hair dryer on hot to make it come back to the right temperature. The right temperature is about 90 degrees.In order to do the mold, I'm going to show you what to do. First thing, we're going to design that. So I take the front of the mold, put it in front of me, then I take a piece of paper. Now, this is called a cone. I put one finger here on the middle of the long side and I shape a cone just like that. Then when I'm there, I'm just going to turn the corners until the points go inside here and I have what we call a cone. It's something to decorate.This is a piece of parchment paper, so I recommend parchment prefer to do that. Now I'm going to put a little bit of dark chocolate into the paper cone. Not too much. And then I'm going to close it, pushing the chocolate toward the bottom. Then, with scissors, I'm going to do a little hole on top. Be careful that the paper doesn't fall into the chocolates. And now you can see the chocolate is pouring out.OK, so that's enough to decorate the mold. So I'm going to put a little bit of dark chocolate on the middle of the eye. Then I'm going to do the eyebrow. I'm going to make the nose dark.I think that's enough for that. What I'm going to do now is, with a brush, I'm going to paint the pants. You can see the pants here, here, here, and all that, so I'm going to paint all that in dark color. So, in order to do that, take a brush, a clean brush, that you will use only for chocolate, and brush the chocolate inside the mold.It's a very simple technique. You can do that with kids. They just love to eat chocolates. And the good thing about chocolate is if you make a mistake, you can eat your mistake. OK, so here we go. We have one side of the monkey. Now I'm going to do the other side.Here I use only milk and dark chocolates, but you can use white chocolate, you can use colored chocolates to do more, let's say, complicated or more involved molding. We take the two sides, we put them together just like that, and then we put some clips. I have some milk chocolate that I temper exactly the same way as dark chocolate. The only difference is we use the milk at 88, we use the dark at 90 degree. So now I turn the mold around, I pour the milk chocolate inside the mold, than I'm going to be very careful that the chocolate runs everywhere, and then I'm going to put it here.The deal here is every time I'm going to coat that mold I'm going to add about one eight of an inch on the thickness of the chocolate. So here is about 1/8 of an inch thick. It's not thick enough. It will not come out of the mold, so I'm going to put it in the fridge for about 8 to 10 minutes, and do that again with the milk chocolate. Be patient.So I just take that monkey out of the fridge, and, as you can see, the insides are pretty dry now, so I'm going to give it another coat exactly the same way. Another coat of chocolate inside. So now I'm going to move it slowly to make the bottom smooth. That's good. And I'm going to put that in the fridge for another 8 to 10 minutes.OK, now the moment of truth. So I just remove the little clips around. No more? No. Now I'm going to separate the mold and the molded items in the middle. So the back came easy. Uh oh. So when that happens, you can always bend the mold a little bit, and usually it just comes out.A lot of the time there's static electricity that makes it stick. So, as you see, I don't put any fat or anything into the plastic mold, but the molded items come out with no problems. So this is how to make a chocolate monkey with a banana in his pocket. Enjoy. - Print Transcript
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