Chocolate has to be one of the greatest foods in the world. Chocolate makes up the majority of a child’s bag on Halloween, takes its place inside a cute heart-shaped box on Valentine’s Day, hides around the yard wrapped in shiny aluminum on Easter, and sits under a tree at Christmas time. But although chocolate is so common in our lives, how many of us are really aware of the creative things we can make from it? Ladies and gentlemen, behold; chocolate art.
How to make a chocolate butterfly
You will need:
-a small bowl of melted chocolate
-a pencil
-blank paper
-a piece of parchment paper
-1 baking sheet
-1 pastry bag
On the blank sheet of paper, draw two halves of a butterfly. This will be your butterfly template.
Place the butterfly template on the baking sheet, then cover it with see through/translucent parchment paper. Pour the melted chocolate (after it’s cooled down slightly) into the pastry bag and cut a small opening in the tip. Be careful to keep the template and parchment paper in place; you can use tape or a paper weight. Outline the template with chocolate and wait for it to cool. Afterwards, carefully peel off the wings and use the warm chocolate from your pastry bag to glue the two halves together.
And there you go, it’s as simple as that. But there’s so much more to chocolate art than butterflies. Here are a few videos on basic chocolate art.
The owner of these videos is called ‘thechocolateaddict‘. She has so many awesome tutorials on making simple, but beautiful art with chocolate. Her channel will teach you how to temper chocolate, and why tempered chocolate works better as decoration than normal melted chocolate. So here’s to easy, pretty, and delicious ways to accessorize your cake, or other baked goods. Have fun and eat lots of chocolate!