Welcome to How To Cook I am Ann Reardon
Today we are using chocolate to decorate cakes, not modelling chocolate just straight plain
chocolate.
I will show you how to make four different styles.
These are a great option if the people you are making cakes for do not like fondant.
Firstly Lets start with the chocolate cuff.
If you want it patterned then you'll need to buy chocolate transfer sheets which have
a pattern made of coloured cocoa butter on a sheet of acetate which is just thin plastic.
You will need to cut it to the correct height for your cake and then make sure it is long
enough to go around.
If you need to make it longer you can stick two pieces together just try and match up
the pattern when you join the two pieces.
Then putting it shiny side onto the cake not the cocoa butter side so that you can check
how long it needs to be.
Mark where you need to cut it and then make it about half a centimeter bigger than that.
Trim it to the right length and then place it on some baking paper with the rough cocoa
butter side facing upwards.
Add your chocolate, if you are using real chocolate you'll need to temper it, if just
click on how to cook that to go through to the channel you will find it there under the
chocolate playlist.
If you do not want to temper then you can use compound chocolate which doesn't need
tempering.
Let the chocolate set a little and then wrap it around the cake.
Once it is set peel off the acetate and the cocoa butter pattern stays on the chocolate.
If you want your chocolate cuff perfect then instead of wrapping it around the cake you
can wrap it around a round cylinder or a container that is covered in baking paper just like
we did in the chocolate transfer sheet dessert video.
The second method is chocolate frills I want to take a moment to show you this great
leather bound journal that I got from another you tuber Jennifer.
Her channel is called sea lemon.
I always jot down ideas for recipes and write down notes from my cooking experiments in
a journal so this has been great.
You can check out her channel and she will show you how to make this particular journal,
how to bind books and do more DIY craft projects too.
I'll add a link to her channel in the description below this video.
To make the chocolate frills rip some non stick baking paper into long rough strips.
Spread some chocolate onto a fresh sheet of baking paper, you can colour your chocolate
using oil based food colours that you can get at cake decorating stores.
Then take a strip and gently press it onto the chocolate and quickly peel it off.
Wrap that strip around the cake and once it is firmly peel off the paper.
You can then add another strip of baking paper covered in chocolate.
Repeat that overlapping the layers until you get to the base of the cake, you can use the
same colour the while way down or you can change the colour as you go.
Number 3 is double layered chocolate cuff... make a short section of chocolate and place
it onto the cake.
Then take another strip of plastic and cover the middle of it with chocolate, and then
on the edges pipe some circles of chocolate so that you have the patterned bit at the
front overlapping the first bit that you put on.
This avoids having a join at the back of the cake it makes it nice and neat.
You can finish that one off by adding a real flower, to do that get a little tube from
the florist that holds a little bit of water in them and holds the stem of the flower firmly
in place by sealing it in at the top.
Then all you need to do is make a hole in the cake and poke it in.
The fourth method is to spread chocolate out onto baking paper and then when it is firming
up cut it into rectangles the smaller your cake is the narrower the rectangles are going
to need to be so that it can bend around the cake.
Once you've cut then place some weight on top to stop them warping and let the chocolate
set.
Then add them overlapping them as you go all the way around.
To finish it off add some chocolate swirlies to the top of the cake, you can find out how
to make them in the chocolate decorations video.
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Oh and I forgot I need your help with something, I have had heaps of requests for another surprise
inside dessert some people want it to have a justin bieber logo and others want a twitter
logo,
I am only going to make one of those two,
so let me know in the comments which one you want in the comments and I'll make it for
you after Christmas.
Have a great week, I'll see you Friday