Chocolate Roses are gorgeous, delicious lifelike flowers made out of a modeling material called chocolate plastic. Use this chocolate plastic recipe to create the chocolate plastic for the roses. Don’t miss the tutorial with step-by-step illustrations showing how to make chocolate roses!
This recipe yields about six full-sized 3” roses, but the quantity can be adjusted by the size of the roses you make.
Ingredients
- One-half pound of white, milk, or dark chocolate plastic
Preparation
1. Begin by kneading your chocolate plastic
until it is smooth and supple. If you are using white chocolate
plastic, knead it in powdered sugar, and if you are using milk or dark
chocolate plastic, knead it in unsweetened cocoa powder. If the plastic
is too hard to knead, microwave it in five-second intervals just until
it becomes pliable. Do not microwave it too long, or it will be too soft
to work with.
2. Dust your work surface and a rolling pin with powdered
sugar or cocoa powder, and roll the chocolate plastic out into a very
thin layer, less than 1/8” thick. If you are working with a large amount
of chocolate plastic, you might want to divide it in half and roll it
out in batches.
3. Use a small round cutter to cut circles
from the plastic. For one full-sized rose, you will need nine circles,
and for rosebuds, you will need 4-5. The size of the circle cutter
determines the size of your finished rose. A 1.5” cutter will yield a
full-sized rose that is approximately 3” wide.
4. Begin by
forming the center of your rose: take one of the cut circles and roll it
into a cylinder. Leave a small hole at the top of the cylinder, and a
larger hole at the bottom.
5. Take another circle, and use
your fingers to flatten one end of it until it is paper-thin. This will
be the top of the petal, and it helps give the rose a more delicate
look. Wrap your petal around the cylinder, making the top of the petal
level with the top of the cylinder, pressing it at the bottom to adhere
the chocolate plastic.
6.Thin out the edge of another circle to add a second petal
to your blossoming rose. The trick to getting a lifelike rose is to
slip the second petal underneath the edge of the first one. Add a third
petal whose edge starts just under the second one to complete the first
layer of petals. If you want to make a rosebud, your flower is now
complete. To make a full rose, continue to the next step.
7.
Use the remaining five petals to add a second layer to the rose,
thinning the top edges as before, and sliding the edge of each new petal
under the previous one as with the first layer. Curl the outer petals
back slightly to make your rose bloom. Pinch off any extra plastic at
the base of the flower, and re-roll it with the plastic scraps to create
more roses.
8. Allow the roses to sit at room temperature
and dry for 24 hours. Once set, they can be stored in an airtight
container indefinitely.
By Elizabeth LaBau
Candy Expert, about.com
