Chocolate!

At the end of May, I took a chocolate class at the Notter School of Pastry Arts . It was the most amazing thing I have ever done! I still can't quite believe that I made all these things.

Here are some modeling chocolate roses we made. Mine is the middle one in the front row. These will be sprayed with colored cocoa butter to color them red.

Here is the little showpiece we used the roses in. It's the first piece I made, and by far the simplest. After seeing the other things we made, this one looks pretty basic.

These are the petals for the second flower I made. You make them by dipping the tip of a knife in white chocolate and then dabbing it on a sheet of acetate. Then you put the acetate in a tube so that the petals will be curved.









And here is the assembled flower.

Here it is after Chef Notter airbrushed it with colored cocoa butter.

And the finished piece.

Now the third and final showpiece. You know the routine by now. Here's the flower. The petals are made from shavings of white chocolate.

Here are some of the components I will use for the showpiece.

And the finished product. I think this is the best thing I made.