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Old 01-15-2007, 07:40 PM
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Just asking for verification....

Planning on taking some plastic chocolate in my checked baggage on a trip. I wasn't thinking I'd have any problems with it getting too cold....

...anyone able to contradict me?
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Nope, no contradictions......it'll be fine!
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This might be a dumb question but what is "plastic chocolate"?

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This might be a dumb question but what is "plastic chocolate"?

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It's that stuff you buy at the novelty store....right next to the plastic vomit...

No, seriously, it's modeling chocolate......you melt chocolate (white or dark) and mix it with corn syrup. The corn syrup seizes the chocolate and makes it into a pliable, moldable medium. You can use it for a lot of things....covering cakes, making flowers, sculpting figures, ribbons, bows.....etc.
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Thanks for the responses!

One of those things you just want to be sure of...
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Oh ok...I have just never heard molding chocolate being refered to as plastic chocolate...ya learn something new everyday...

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Oh ok...I have just never heard molding chocolate being refered to as plastic chocolate...ya learn something new everyday...

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Just a guess...it may have gotten the name from the french term for the stuff, which I'm pretty sure is chocolat plastique.

btw, the cake I made to place it on turned out beautifully, the bride (who had actually been out of the loop on the whole thing - my bro-in-law the groom handled it and surprised her with it) came up to me with tears in her eyes and hugged me when she saw it!
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the bride (who had actually been out of the loop on the whole thing - my bro-in-law the groom handled it and surprised her with it)
Mellow bride! They usually can't STAND to be out of the loop!!!
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