Chocolate modeling paste

[kthull]

Not any harder than the paste itself.

[Headless Chicken]

In class, we used equal parts melted couveture chocolate and glucose (which can be sub. with corn syrup).



This was the result, however, my theory teacher conflicts saying that the correct ratio was 2 parts chocolate to 1 part glucose

I'd try them both if I was stocked in chocolate.

[kthull]

I just wanted to thank everyone for their help in this and other threads. My son's cake was a HUGE hit. Everyone, including myself, was amazed that I made everything myself. Even better, it tasted great too. It's such a good feeling to see people coming back for seconds!

I'll post pictures after I download them from the camera.

[kthull]

Ok, so here is the cake with a closeup of the roses.

[Anna W.]

Great Job!!!

[W.DeBord]

Good Work Kevin! You did a great job on your painting!!

[angrychef]

Wonderful job, Kthull! That really is a beautiful cake----pretty handwriting too!

[m brown]

Beautiful Job!!!

[Spoons]

gorgeous handwriting!!! nice roses.

[kthull]

Thanks everyone. Coming from all of you, it means a lot. And I couldn't have done it without you.

[Isa]

Fabulous cake!!

[chrose]

Kthull
Very pretty cake and roses. Writing was always my weak point. I could do a beautiful cake and ruin it because I can't letter for s...!
But again the roses are very delicate and nice. Keep up the practice. I knew I had a picture somewhere handy, this was one of my old pictures. All white chocolate made from the Cocoa Barry.
http://www.cheftalkcafe.com/forums/a...=&postid=45984

[kthull]

chrose, those roses are amazing! I definitely enjoyed making the roses, although the white chocolate was much more subject to hot hands than the dark chocolate I first tried. That had it's pluses and minuses. I could get rid of any imperfections just by a quick touch.

How did you get the color mix into your roses? Did you paint it on or did you merge two different color bases when constructing your petals?

I got a gum paste kit the other day and your roses look a lot like those did in the picture. Such fun stuff!

[chrose]

Kevin,
I used to do gum paste but I found it tedious and a pain, though I do like the way things come out so I did it when I had to.
I am working on a new PC system so all of a sudden I found many of my old pictures that are better than that one. I'll see if they're postable.
As I said, I use the Cocoa Barry Plastique and I make separate color bases with paste colors. Then I mix and match colors. Sometimes I will take a smear of color and just stretch it into the piese. There may be a pocket of color which is partially covered. The key is to make it look as natural as possible. That means mistakes, imperfections and color variations are encouraged. If you try too hard to make the perfect rose, it will show and look unnautural. So sometimes I would purposely overwork the edges so they became very soft and just tore away an edge for a more natural look.
If I can load the pics I'll show you what I mean.

[kthull]

Very cool. I didn't have any luck posting pictures using the tool on the forum, so I had to put them up onto my own site and just put links here for people to see. (Finally gave me the impetus to really start working on my site too!)