15 minutes Preparation
Melted chocolate adds a fun and professional finishing touch to any dessert, pudding or treat. Piping it can create many fun designs, shapes or words, so get creative!
Ingredients:
- 150g milk or 150g dark chocolate
- 100ml boiling water
- Small saucepan
- Sheet of baking or greaseproof paper
- Piping bag
Method:
- To melt the chocolate break the bars into small pieces and place in a heat proof bowl.
- Pour the boiling water into a small saucepan and place the bowl over the water.
- Don’t allow the bowl or water to touch otherwise the chocolate will burn.
- Simmer the boiling water, stirring the chocolate as it slowly melts.
- Once the chocolate has fully melted and allowed to cool slightly scoop the liquid chocolate into a piping bag, filling it from the bottom.
- Once the bag is full, twist the end to stop the chocolate from bursting out of the top when squeezed.
- Place a sheet of baking paper on a flat surface (weigh the corners down if it curls)
- Snip a small section of the end off the tip of the piping bag
Tip the nozzle down, squeezing gently until the chocolate starts to flow out.
- Shapes, designs and words can now be made using the chocolate.
To practice piping the chocolate:
- Draw an egg outline with a line going down along its right side then a regular o, with a line flowing down the left side.
- Draw a short line down with a curve to the right at the top, then a separate vertical short line then another long vertical line.
- Draw an F, then an 8 on its side, then another long vertical line, and then make an s shape.
- Happy April Fool’s!
