Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Encyclopedia of Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques

By Frédéric Bau and École du Grand Chocolat Valrhona

Published 2017

  • About

Teardrops, commas, fans, or chocolate petals—choose your tools according to the shapes you want. This is definitely the type of decoration where practice makes perfect, so you will need to repeat the exercise until you get it just right. Whatever shape you decide on, it will be lovely!

Ingredients

Method

Dip the corner of the blade of a kitchen knife or spatula (1) into the tempered chocolate. Place the flat of the blade firmly on the strip of parchment paper or acetate (2) and remove it quickly, drawing it away slightly. Repeat the procedure until you have filled the strip.