I was wondering if anyone has tried using moldable chocolate for figures instead of fondant or gumpaste. I was watching Walt Disney's Holiday special on food network and they make all of their figures and accents from chocolate...and from what I can see it seems alot easier that fondant or gumpaste. I searched the forums and came up with nothing, so I thought i would ask...I am going to try it this weekend, but i wanted to know if anyone had tried it.
Here is a recipe for it...just in case you want to try it.....
It is too easy.....or so it seems.
Moldable Chocolate
Ingredients and Preparation:
10 ounces of chocolate (chopped chunks or chips)
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Note: the chocolate can be substituted with almond bark, or colored candy disks to create different colored flowers
Melt the chocolate in a microwave for 1 minute. Stir. If chocolate is not completely melted, return to the microwave for 30 seconds at a time and stir until smooth. If you don't have a microwave, place the chocolate in the top of a double broiler over hot water and stir until melted.
When the chocolate is melted, add the corn syrup and blend.
Pour the mixture onto a waxed paper sheet.
Spread the chocolate with your fingers until it's about 1/2 inch thick.
Cover loosely with waxed paper and let it stiffen for at least a couple hours or overnight. The chocolate will become very pliable.
You can also use a bag of candy melts and 1/3 cup of corn syrup. Melt candy melts, mix in corn syrup, spread on wax paper and let sit over night. Wilton calls it Candy Clay. 
Thanks for the recipe Randa! Sounds easy, I'm going to try that!
Do you know the best way to store the chocolate leftovers?
This is all new to me, I made some today and it turned out really well....it tastes like tootsie rolls. I am going to make all the decorations for my BIL cake "Dallas Cowboys" theme. i will post pics when I am done
Bigcatz, I stored mine in a plastice baggie....oh, yea and I made several chocolate flowers for another project I am working on.
Basement. I wish we had basements out here. They don't do that anymore in this area. I guess it cost to much to dig in clay soil. I am too cheap to have the A/C running all the time so it is usually pretty hot in my house. Maybe I will try again since it is cooler right now.
Thanks for advice. I would prefer to use chocolate.
Another idea is to have cold water with some ice in it and to dip your hand in it from time to time - of course you have to whipe them a bit before you move on.
I almost always have cold hands so I don't have that problem but it helped me once at the sea side when I was doing chocolate leaves on a very very hot summar day.
I live in an old apartment in a block that was built before the world war - everything had basment back there
Maby you coul try garage if you have it...
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