This design creates both hearts and a herringbone pattern.
Place the dessert in the center of the upper half of the plate. Using a piping bottle, pipe a teardrop-shaped pool of sauce on the plate so the narrow end of the pool wraps halfway around the dessert.
Using the contrasting sauce, pipe a line of small dots, spaced about ยฝ inch (1.2 cm) apart, then 2 parallel solid lines under the dots, centered across the width of the pool.
3. Drag a small wooden skewer up and down through the pattern without picking it up, dragging through both the dots and the solid lines when moving toward the edge of the plate and through the solid lines between each dot when moving toward the dessert (Figure 13-14).