White Waxy Look On Chocolate Transfer
Decorating By gourmetcakes Updated 4 May 2007 , 1:10am by gourmetcakes
I just did my first chocolate transfer last night.....I loved the technique and the look I achieved. Well, I went to show my DH after about an hour and it had this white waxy look to it. The attached picture shows Dora's face has a white look to it as well as baby Jaguar and Diego (Diego's face has been touched up by using my warm finger to try to get rid of the white look - I did get that fixed eventually) - (if you look at their arms, though, it is the correct color and not white). Not every color did this, only my lighter brown color.....did I overheat the chocolate? I did mix the light cocoa candy melts with white candy melts to get a light color, but I mixed them very well. I did heat it up several times to add more white to get the lighter color.....I also did the transfer on parchment paper.
Does anyone know why this happened? Has it happened to you? What did you do to keep it from happened again?
I really need to find out what I did because I LOVE this technique and will use it for any cakes such as this. HELP!!!!
I had this same issue and was told it was from over heating the chocolate.
I can see that that was the case. I had a feeling it was from overheating. My bag of light brown was almost too hot to hold, much hotter than my other colors. I reheated the black to fill in Dora's hair at the very end and it did the same thing. So, I guess I will not recycle my light brown and black for another project and start with fresh chocolate......
Thanks! I am very excited to do some more transfers! What a wonderful website this is!!!!!!!
Even though you don't have to temper candy melts, its a good idea to treat them a little like you do. Heat them very gently and, if possible, stir a couple disks of unmelted into you melted to cool it down to a good working temperature and set a good crystallization pattern. Your chocolate should NEVER be hot. I also prefer the look when doing my CTs on a plastic surface as opposed to paper - not so dull.
In the microwave in a glass bowl at 50% for 30 seconds, stir, repeat until melted.
Rae
Thanks for the information. I am definitely overheating mine.
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