Do you mind PMing me how you made the chocolate leaves? I don't want to enter the contest, but I would love to make leaves for a cake I'm making for Thanksgiving.

OR...if someone knows how to make the colorful leaves, can someone tell me how? Thanks so much!

It's not my cake, but I'll take a stab at it ...

There are a couple of techinques you can use!

1. paint differetn colours of melted chocolate on the back of a real leaf... chill then peel the leaf off ... just make sure the leaf is clean / non-toxic! You could try this with silk leaves, but I'm not sure how well it would release.

2. Make modelling chocolate (chocolate & corn syrup) then roll it out thin and use cutters & veiners, then paint them (or use different colours of chocolate)

3. Okay, that's all I've got for ideas. Anyone else?

I made a leaf cake I am not sure if you are talking to me or not,lol. Look in my photos and let me know if it is me.

RoseAnn

navywife060901,

The cake I'm referring to was entered in the new contest. It's one of the most recent uploads.

Thanks, MelC. I figured you would have to use real leaves, but there's not many leaves by me anymore. Plus, I love how the person colored it. They looks so realistic!

Before this cake was in the contest there were explanations in the comments. The creator said that she had used Wilton candy melts to paint on the back of leaves, let them set and then peeled off.

Good luck! I think they're beautiful!

Thanks for the help everyone! I'll decide by this weekend what I want to do with my cake.

I just posted this very same question~ sorry, I didn't even see if anyone else had asked the same question tonight~ OOPS~

Try this... http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-9593-leaves.html

Thanks DiH. It was a really helpful link.