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Chocolate Cages
Preparation info
- Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
By Bo Friberg
Published 2003
Making chocolate cages is a delicate procedure and should not be attempted on a hot day without the proper facility for working with chocolate. Because the piped chocolate mesh must be open enough — that is, the lines must be spaced far enough apart — to display the item the finished cage encloses, the cages are very fragile.
Ingredients
- Small balloons
- Vegetable oil
- Piping Chocolate
Method
- Have ready small, wide glasses, such as on-the-rocks glasses or other suitable containers, on which to rest the balloons after piping the chocolate; you will need 1 for each cage you are making. Have an equal number of binder clips or paper clips available (see Chef’s Tip). Blow up as many balloons as needed to the size of gra