Recipe of Mario Batali Chocolate Decorations For Valentine's

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate decorations for valentine's. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate decorations for valentine's using 4 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Decorations For Valentine's:

1. Prepare This recipe is intermediate level or above.
2. Make ready 135 grams Couverture chocolate
3. Get 20 grams Simple syrup
4. Prepare 50 grams starch syrup : 22 grams [1 tablespoon] Mizuame or honey

Steps to make Chocolate Decorations For Valentine's:

1. Chop up the chocolate and melt over a double boiler (about 50℃). The chocolate might separate if the temperature is too high.
2. Warm the chocolate to the touch.
3. Combine syrup and mizuame in another bowl and warm over a double boiler [about 30℃].
4. Combine the warmed Steps 2 and 3 together.
5. Pour the mixture onto a parchment paper, place a plastic wrap to cover and chill thoroughly in the refrigerator. Let it sit for a day if possible.
6. Knead to evenly incorporate. Then it is ready.
7. Dust cocoa powder on your hands and shape like clay. You can also roll out the chocolate and cut out with cookie cutters Use melted chocolate as glue.
8. [For a rose] Place Step 6 on a new parchment paper and place a plastic wrap on. Roll out the chocolate to be thin [about 3 mm-to your liking].
9. Core =1 circle Flower petals = heart shape cookie cutters [or flower petals shapes] and cut out as needed. The amount of petals depends on the size of the flower.
10. Core = Cut the round shape into half, let them over lap each other and roll to the arrow direction.
11. Wrap and stick the petals to the core. Shape nicely depending on how the whole shape looks. Repeat this process and make your desired size.
12. This is made with core = 1 piece, and petals = 5 pieces.
13. The picture is for how it looks like form the side.
14. Cut off the excess.
15. The rose will look beautiful if you make the edges of the petal thin and wavy. The rose in the picture is pretty big. I used core = 1 pieces and petals = 8 pieces.
16. For spirals, spread out Step 6 on half of a parchment paper and make cuts.
17. Use the other half of the parchment paper and place the chocolate in between. Wrap the chocolate onto a rolling pin or a core of a plastic wrap, and let it chill.
18. Remove the parchment paper form the stick.
19. Remove the parchment paper form the chocolate. It's prone to cracking. Wrapping Step 17 to a stick is easier to make the spirals.
20. [Arrangement]

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