This is my setup for making all my chocolate truffle (cake ball) decorations for my baby shower cake in my gallery. The egg and 2 different sized spheres I found at Hobby Lobby. They look like they are used for making Christmas ornaments. I used these to make the bear, lady bugs, and mushroom. The purple sphere thing was the bottom half of a plastic egg for Easter. That is what I used for the bears nose and ears. After the chocolate hardens I put the cake truffle into the chocolate and either coat the exposed area with chocolate (mushroom and lady bugs) or attach two pieces together (bear). To attach two pieces I used my electric skillet set to warm which worked really well.
The arms, feet, and legs of the teddy bear and stem of the mushroom was formed cake truffle that I froze and then dipped in chocolate. I am still trying to find a better method of doing this that looks smoother. I ended up just making the mushroom stem rough with a paint brush.
I have Franz Ziegler's Magic Chocolate book which inspired me to do all of this. I only know of one person that likes to eat fondant decorations and everyone I know loves chocolate so I moved into this direction.
Chocolate isn't the easiest thing to work with. You don't know how many times I accidentally hit and broke the antennas. Of course, that was at 2am. I was so happy all the pieces made it to the party without any casualties. Yeah! The mom-to-be loved it. Yeah!
I traced the butterfly wings on waxpaper, added dots, filled in and added more dots on top. After they harden, prop the wings on a line of chocolate. After that hardens, flip it over and do the body with drops of chocolate. For the head, I put a drop of chocolate on wax paper, let it harden, flipped it over and put a drop of chocolate on the chocolate. That made is round then I just attached it to the body. I used the same method for the antennas.
Hope that all made sense.
Here is where the butterfly design came from
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000DJX58/?tag=cakecentral-20
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