Melt more candy coating in the microwave (each butterfly took about 15 discs) in a microwave safe bowl. Place melted candy in a ziploc bag. The candy coating can also be placed in a plastic bottle and heated in hot water (not boiling) and kept warm on the stove. Be careful to not let any water get into the candy coating, as it will make it curdle.
Cynthia Stroud’s Expert Tips to Master 3 Beautiful Chocolate Decorating Trends
It’s easier than you might think to create show-stopping desserts with these three chocolate decorating ideas seen in Great Chocolate Showdown. From a simple chocolate drip technique to hand painting and transfer sheet designs, open your desserts up to a world of delicious decorating possibilities that taste as good as they look.
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How To Paint With Chocolate (Cocoa Butter)
Painting with cocoa butter is different to painting with water-based food colour and edible alcohol. The former is like oil painting and the latter is more like water colour painting. Keep this in mind when creating your designs with cocoa butter.
To create cocoa butter colours, melt cocoa butter and mix in edible food colour powder or dust. If a colour is too deep, you can add white edible food colour dust. Be sure to keep your cocoa butter warm and liquid the whole time you are painting otherwise it will coagulate and make it difficult to achieve the spread you want. To do this, whilst painting, balance your painting palette or a plate you are using over a bowl of warm water.
Tips for Painting With Chocolate:
• It is important that your paint brush is dry and free of water otherwise it will cause the cocoa butter to coagulate into clumps.
• To create shades in your cocoa butter painting, layer over an area with white cocoa butter.
• To create texture, brush over any painted areas with dry brushes.
• To achieve colours true to type, it is worth painting a layer of white first
• You cannot use water-based food colouring to colour cocoa butter as the moisture in the water-based food colouring will cause it to seize up.
How to Decorate With Chocolate Transfer Sheets
When painting on transfer sheet, paint on the details first. You ought to paint in reverse to the way you’d paint on a piece of paper. On a piece of paper or canvas you’d normally paint the background first and add details after, but for transfer sheets, paint the details first then the background after. To get a good idea of whether your painting is coming along the way you intend, lift the sheet from time to time and crane your neck to look at the unpainted side. That will tell you how your painted cake will look.
Tips for Creating Chocolate Transfer Sheets:
• When spreading the melted tempered chocolate, ensure it is not too warm & runny (or it will melt your painting) and don’t overwork the chocolate whilst spreading it on the painted transfer sheet or it will dislodge the painted details.
• Ensure the transfer sheet is covered from edge to edge or this will result in gaps in the transfer collar
Chocolate Painting Class
1 to 12 (public classes), 8 to 24 (private) (private classes)
label $79 (or 4 payments of $19.75 via – Afterpay)
What you’ll do
Looking for unique things to do in Melbourne? Come and learn how to paint with chocolate!
Chocolate painting is a new means of art, where you hand paint coloured chocolate on a chocolate block. Yes, the canvas and the paints are 100% chocolate!
It’s a tasty and familiar medium that is and can be enjoyed by everyone. By using chocolate, it engages your senses and can allow even those who are unfamiliar with art to experience a new and creative outlet.
Combine chocolate and art, and you’ll get an inviting and positive artistic experience perfect for chocolate lovers and artists alike.
Keen to dive right in? Come to have your first experience of chocolate painting and kickstart your creativity today!
Allergens statement: The chocolate in the workshop contains soy, dairy, and may contain traces of nut allergens.
- There will be a hot surface (max 50 degrees) for melting chocolate during the painting. All participants must follow the safety instructions during class. Yesign holds no responsibility for injury if it was misconduct.
- Do not eat chocolate or chocolate paints during the workshop, in the interest of hygiene.
- Drinks and food will only be allowed outside of the workshop space. Water bottles are excluded.
- The participants in the workshop might be photographed for commercial use of Yesign. Please let us know if you do not want to be photographed in advance.
- If you cannot make the workshop, please contact us at least two days prior to the commencement of the workshop. Yesign offers alternative workshop sessions or a credit refund to use for any chocolate purchase.
- There will be no refund if the participant cancels less than a week prior to the commencement of the workshop.
- Credit refund or re-scheduled workshop will be given for change-of-mind cancellation.
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Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly, no painting or drawing experience. Children under five require parental supervision.
 
What you’ll get
Complimentary coffee or tea, chocolate tasting and ice cream (while stock lasts).
 
What to bring
Tie up long hair and wear enclosed shoes.
 
Suitable for
This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.
Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 5 years old).
Adult accompaniment is not required.
Location
G22B Wharf St, Docklands VIC and Wharf St, Docklands VIC (varies by date; click the date selector to see details)
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The incredible art paired with delicious handmade chocolate is what the team aim to present to you at Yesign where they explore the possibilities of bringing excitement from palette to palate! Chocolate painting is a new means of art, where you hand paint coloured chocolate on a chocolate block.
Young is the leading artist and designer of Yesign. She is qualified in Food Science, Psychology, and Product Design. She is a self-taught chocolatier, and a chocolate artist. She has been working as a mental health support worker with those under 18 for over 7 years. She engages with children and adults in a fun and easy way. Last but not the least, she is a chocoholic.
Let’s discover the new world of chocolate art together!
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About the Author
Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has cont.
Cindy Hopper was fortunate to be raised in a family who appreciated the arts. This background led to a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education. With a keen eye for design and color, Cindy has continued her love of art and is now passing her creative skills on to her three children. Cindy’s family and friends are the beneficiaries of her passion for fun and meaningful creative projects.
Cindy’s personal blog, Skip to My Lou, has taken her love of a project to new levels. Postings keep the family busy -– from testing new recipes for holiday treats to designing and building floats for a neighborhood parade to making fabric rolls to hold crayons to creating themed parties. Cindy seems to have an unending supply of ideas for gifts, parties and rainy days.
