Cocoa-Nib Wafer Paste

This is a handsome, tasty, versatile, and trendy decorating material. You could call it the modern version of Florentina paste. Like Florentina paste, cocoa-nib paste flows out as it bakes rather than staying in its original shape the way tuile paste and Hippen paste do. Cocoa-nib paste flows out fairly evenly all around, however, if it is spread into small even circles to begin with — to use for dessert containers, for example. The degree to which the paste flows out, and consequently the