Flo Braker

Plastic Chocolate

Preparation info
  • Makes

    ½ cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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top 1000The Simple Art of Perfect Baking
The Simple Art of Perfect Baking

By Flo Braker

Published 1984

  • About

Adding corn syrup to melted chocolate produces a chocolate compound that has the consistency of soft clay after it has stood for a while at room temperature. It’s an easy mixture to work with for a variety of decorations.

This is rolled around Chocolate Angel Food Roll.

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces semisweet chocolate
  • 3 tablespoons light corn syrup

Method

Chop the chocolate into matchstick-size pieces, and place them in a 1-quart mixing bowl that fits snugly over another bowl half filled with hot tap water (120 degrees). When the chocolate is smooth and liquid, remove the bowl from the container of water.

Add the corn syrup and stir with a rubbe