Chocolate roses are considered the original edible decoration of desserts and cakes. They allow you to make the product finished. Such an ornament can be built independently, if you follow the simple rules for creating. On them roses from chocolate can learn how to make every housewife.
Jewelry Features
To make the dessert more original, various equipment is used: food printers , plotters, airbrushes for dyes. Various equipment is also used - forms and syringe. In the work they use food coloring, icing, confectionery gels, sets. The decoration process is facilitated with them.
What kind of chocolate do you need?
For work you need tempered chocolate, which is processed in a special way. As a result, the product acquires the plasticity that is needed for sculpting. If you heat the product, crystals will appear due to the crystallization of cocoa butter, and therefore the chocolate will not be plastic. It is best to perform the tempering procedure.
It involves heating and cooling the chocolate. The product retains its luster and texture. If decorations for the cake are often made, it is advisable to purchase a special thermometer that will allow you to control the procedure.
Flower molding can be done with thin rubber gloves, but this is inconvenient. Work should be done quickly, because of the heat chocolate loses its shape. For drying, jars with a narrow neck are suitable. Doing this work is not too difficult. If you try to make several flowers, then over time you will get beautiful roses. They are great for decorating cakes and pastries.
What is required?
Chocolate roses make a confectionery more luxurious. To do the job you do not need professional equipment. It is enough to have improvised means. To make jewelry, you will need:
- chocolate mastic;
- rolling pin;
- a form for receiving circles or a glass;
- plastic container.
Completing of the work
To create one rose of chocolate you will need 200-250 g of mastic. The product should be kneading by hand, and then it is rolled with a rolling pin to obtain a thin paste 3-4 mm thick. Then you need to take a glass or shape and make circles. There should be 15 pieces: about 10 for the petals, and others for the bud. After that, you can collect chocolate roses.
To get a flower, you need chocolate mastic. A circle is created from it, and then it is turned into a tube. Such work is performed with each circle. Then the upper edges are slightly bent, and stretched, and turned out. This decoration will become more realistic. This will turn out the first petal for the bud.
It is necessary to take the second blank, place it under the first, press the petal to the petal. Get the first bud. Three tubes are used to form the second bud. Then they are placed in a container for 3 hours so that they dry out. In the same way, you need to collect a rose flower: you need 10 tubes, placed one below the other. Their upper edges, stretch, bend. After receiving the rose, it is placed in a container for drying. After that, they can decorate the cake.
What is required for chocolate dough?
Chocolate roses can be made from chocolate dough. To do this, you will need:
- dark chocolate (100 g);
- sugar (350 g);
- hot water (150 ml);
- soda (1.5 g);
- citric acid (2 g);
- cling film;
- rolling pin;
- circle shape or glass;
- putty knife.
These are the main ingredients and products for beautiful jewelry. With their help, classic roses are prepared. They are also made from white chocolate, as well as from a mixture. If you combine colors, you get a great decoration.
Cooking
To make roses for the cake, you need to make chocolate syrup. Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire. Then sugar is added and the solution is boiled. When it boils, citric acid is poured, the pan is covered. Syrup is cooked for about 50 minutes on low heat. Then it should cool.
Boiled water is added to the soda, and then syrup is poured. When foam appears, stirring must be intensified. The resulting syrup has a yellow tint, similar to honey. To make chocolate decorations, you need to make chocolate dough. Tiles of delicacies must be crushed, the mass placed in a water bath, the product should become melted. Then syrup (30 ml) is added and the composition is mixed until a thick mass is obtained. Then it is laid out on a plastic wrap and covered with another film. Then everything is left for 12 hours to harden.
Flower making
After hardening, you can make chocolate roses. You need to break off a little dough, knead it with your hands, and use a rolling pin to create a thin layer. Then you need to take a form or a glass, cut out 15 circles. They are placed on a tray, and the remains are eliminated with a spatula. Mugs need to give the shape and thickness of rose petals, slightly stretch.
From the dough create a ball, make it conical. During assembly, the petal is wrapped around a cone, and then another petal is fixed to the first. The third is located under the open part of the second. The open part of the second part closes on the third. So all the details are fixed. Petals need to be bent outward, making the flower realistic.
At the base, you need to eliminate the excess dough. This completes the manufacture of roses. If there are several roses on the cake, then you will additionally need to make other decor elements, such as leaflets. Dark and white chocolate can be used. Chocolate roses will make any cake more beautiful.