Culinary Institute of America

Chocolate Dome

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    dome
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
Baking & Pastry

By Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

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Ingredients

Ingredient U.S. Metric
Bittersweet chocolate, melted, tempered As needed As

Method

  1. Pour the chocolate into a 2¾-in/7-cm polycarbonate dome mold. Allow the chocolate to set for approximately 30 seconds, just until some of the chocolate begins to set.
  2. Invert the mold over the bowl of chocolate to allow most of the chocolate to spill out, leaving a hollow shell dome. Once the chocolate hanging from the mold has begun to set, use a tool that is w