Chocolate Transfers, Is It Just Me?
Decorating By projectqueen Updated 8 Jun 2007 , 8:56pm by KoryAK
You pipe on the wax paper or just use as a bag? Doesn't seem like it would be stiff enough but I guess you could tape it down to a cookie sheet or cake pan.... Good idea? Wouldn't work for other chocolate work like collars, etc. though....
I use a disposable bag and pipe onto waxed paper. I haven't tried anything that I've need anything like a collar... just a picture or writing [mine stinks! 
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I've done a very large butterfly and some free hand work so I had to upload that cake to the naughty gallery but it's on my website under adult photos.. nothing bad about it really but anyway...
I use a regular piping bag just as I would with buttercream icing only I don't use a coupler and I don't use a tip. I fill the bag with the chocolate melts and stick it in the microwave for 30 secs until done, then when it's ready I nip off the very end of the bag and use that. I don't know how to make the parchment bags or I'd try that but I'm scared to try them lol. I ended up breaking my butterfly when I removed it from the wax paper but I think I left it in the freezer too long lol. So when I placed it on the cake I placed it piped side UP instead of down and it was all pointy and stuff but she still liked it lol.
I plan on doing my husbands work a cake for the summer picnic and plan on doing a chocolate transfer or a FBCT which ever I can manage to get right lol. It's going to be the company name and a very large crab under the name, placed ontop of a sheet cake. I'm hoping to get orders from this for future functions and from parents for thier children's parties and what not lol.
Anyway do yall think a FBCT would do better for that or a CT??? I want to use Old English lettering for the company name because his boss is from England... anyway what do yall think would be best? It would say Crabb & Company LLC. and then a very large crab picture... Thanks for any tips and help 
Most plastics are made with caustic chemicals and are coated with an oil or other substance to keep it from sticking to itself. The foodsafe Acetate that you buy by the roll or in sheets is made and treated in a different manner so the chemicals do not leach into your food.
You can wash and reuse the strips from cakes and even from transfer sheets. Just wash them in very mild kitchen soap, rinse well and air dry.
As to using something that was bought in a hobby shop? The last thing I would ever want to do is to accidently poison people because I was trying to save money. It just is not worth the risk and the liability. If you are baking out of your house and you get someone sick it just is not worth losing the house.
I tape my image to a glass sheet then lay regular old saran wrap over it. You have to make sure there are no wrinkles. The wrap sticks to the glass sheet, but I have to tape it if I use a regular cookie sheet. Very cheap, easy, and food safe. Do NOT however, use wrap and sheet with no paper in between - it will stick too bad to get it off in one piece.
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