Nest

Name: Nest
Ingredients: Pipe tempered chocolate onto frozen marble in a back-and-forth motion. The chocolate will crystallize almost immediately.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Art of the Chocolatier

By Ewald Notter

Published 2011

About

This technique has many potential uses depending on the desired look. It can be used to create a bird’s nest, as shown here, or the chocolate can be used to look like straw.

Method

Pipe tempered chocolate onto frozen marble in a back-and-forth motion. The chocolate will crystallize almost immediately.
Cut off the ends of the piped chocolate with a knife to create the desired length strands.
Use a triangle spatula to immediately remove the chocolate strands from the ma