Chocolate Lace Decorations

These elegant, lacy chocolate tubes appear to be complex and difficult to produce but actually the opposite is true. The procedure is simple and they can be prepared far in advance, in which case the decorations should be stored still rolled up in their plastic sheets until needed. The PVC or polyurethane sheets used must be thin — just slightly thicker than baking paper — or the decorations will break when you unroll the plastic. The thin plastic needed here is also sold in rolls from whic