edible chocolate play dough

After posting peanut butter play dough for the instructables community, I was excited to whip up a batch of chocolate play dough for my son so I could add it here. Unlike the peanut butter one, this has virtually no redeeming nutritional quaility and is practically candy so it's not made half as often. But it does make a nice treat and could even make a fun gift for Valentine's Day. It's an almost guaranteed smile-getter!

Step 1 Gather Ingredients

You will be needing powdered sugar, powdered milk, cocoa powder, corn syrup, a stick of butter or margarine, flavoring or extract of your choice, and perhaps you will want flour for kneading. That's up to you.

Comments

[eternalwind]

fun to play with, good to eat!

[whisperonthewind]

Amount of flavoring would depend on whether you have pure flavorings or artificial. Young kids won't notice the difference, and artificial flavorings are less expensive, but you will probably use more. Even without kids, I use only artificial flavorings because of the high alcohol contents - double the percentage to find out the "proof" if you are really curious.

[Doctor What]

 Yes!  I love edible playthings, especially chocolate.

[ItsYourDime]

Hehe.. well you are in luck! I have a chocolate clay recipe that I am experimenting with tomorrow. I will take pictures and post my results. Then I also have another play dough that can be chocolate (or another flavor) if you want.

[stephenrjones]

Could you put this on cakes?

[Doctor What]

 If I want?
Of course I want!
These are great!

So, by chocolate clay, do you mean it can be eaten after it hardens up, or is it just a thicker consistency play doh?

[ItsYourDime]

I'm not really certain. It was in a kid's craft book, but it turns out that it's a pretty standard recipe for cake decorating. It seems to be more like a clay-like consistency than a dough, but I haven't messed around with it first hand or anything yet. I don't think that it hardens up.

[ItsTheHobbs]

Sounds like fondant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondant

[FunkNattidelic]

It could very well be modeling chocolate too. I watch cake boss sometimes, they use both rather frequently :P

[teamcoltra]

 LOL when I was reading the description of Chocolate Clay I was thinking "Man this sounds like fondant or that chocolate that they make stuff out of! 

Then the next 2 comments are exactly what I am thinking... man I love Instructables.

Btw I am an Ace of Cakes guy (very rarely though)

[eheber]

Another way to make this is to get the wilton melts, melt them and pour in 1/2 cup (I think) light Karo Syrup... If you run a search for candy clay it'll pop that one up...

[DaRealNapstah]

This is great for nasty pranks, if you get me >:)

[seabananers]

fun to play with to eat

[Fred82664]

sweet ! if one would make this and this one edible peanut butter play dough add the two to gather one would have Reesy cup play dough 

[SamK92595]

 yum, this with the peanut play-doh and we have a instant reeces cup