As I started work today, the snow was gently falling outside and Christmas carols were serenading me from the radio… there is definitely no mistaking that Christmas is near. And with Christmas this near, what else is there to do but bring out the chocolate? But not just any ordinary chocolate…
Chocolate Painting!!!
Serious fun, if ever there was such a thing. Grab some chocolate and try this yourself – it is a barrel of fun for all ages, a great way to keep the kids busy while they wait for Santa, and as an added bonus, the finished masterpieces all make fun and unique gifts.
All you need is some milk chocolate (or dark chocolate if you prefer), a selection of other colours you might like to use, and a new, synthetic paintbrush. This is what my colour palette looked like as I started today’s project.
Now, if you have a few chocolate moulds kicking around the house or studio like I do, then using them as a starting point has to be one of the easiest ways to paint chocolate. Once you used the moulds to shape your chocolate, the rest is painting the chocolate in like you would colour a colouring book. Sort of a paint-by-number kind of thing (if there were numbers in the chocolate).
But then, if colouring within the lines is just not your style, try painting your very own picture – no chocolate mould required!To do this, use a clean yogurt container lid as your mould to create a flat chocolate surface to paint on. To help me get my finished picture just like I wanted it to be, I traced a cookie cutter out onto parchment paper, placed this ‘template’ onto my chocolate paper, and painted the background (blue) around my template. Then I removed the paper and finished painting the picture leaving the raised outer ring as plain chocolate to form a frame for my painting.
I did learn that there are a few tricks along the way. First, if you are like me and cool your chocolate in the freezer, it is very important to let the shaped chocolate become more room temperature before painting, or the coloured chocolate on your paintbrush will cool too fast and harden before you can get it off the bristles (believe me – this happens FAST!). Second, a little coloured chocolate goes a long way, so unless you are painting alot, you won’t need nearly as much of the coloured chocolate as you think you will. You might, however, run out of the plain chocolate faster than you think you will because moulding ‘paper’ does take a lot more chocolate than you think. And thirdly, I learned again just how much fun chocolate painting is (and tasty too!).
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