how to make chocolate garnishes

Chocolate is great on it's own, but chocolate garnishes? Now we're talking!
Making your own chocolate garnishes is a great way to decorate or accent your dessert, and are really easy to make. There are a few different varieties of chocolate garnishing, but I'll be focusing on two of the most common chocolate garnish varieties: piped chocolate and chocolate curls.

Chocolate curls look great sprinkled over anything (ice cream, cake, coffee) and piped chocolate can take almost any shape you can think of, and make great toppers for desserts. Best of all, piped chocolate can be made to match any theme you have with your dessert and can be almost any shape you like, flat or curved!

Enough talk, let's make some chocolate garnishes!

Step 1 Ingredients + equipment

To make your own chocolate garnishes you only need a few things you probably have at home, and of course some chocolate!

ingredients: chocolate wafers (dark, milk, or white) .

equipment: saucepan heatproof mixing bowl icing knife flat baking sheet heatproof spatula wax or parchment paper

Comments

[mitch and sean]

YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChrysN]

The molecule is: Theobromine.

The dinosaurs look really cool!

[mikeasaurus]

Thanks, they were fun to make.

You're right, theobromine is the molecule. Patched!

[build52]

I am voteing

[build52]

I notice the spoon in the back round pretty cool were did you get it

[mikeasaurus]

Thanks, I made it!

[build52]

Yeah I saw that after I posted the comment

[shesparticular]

Love the dinosaurs! Awesome work! I've also done striped curls by piping alternating lines of white and dark chocolate - looks really cool as well.

[mikeasaurus]

I don't know why I didn't think of that, what a great idea!

[instruct39]

tasty!