I've been searching the web and come up empty handed! How do you make chocolate scrolls like around the sides of this cake?

probably my favorate decoration and i have no idea. would also love to know.

You can buy them like that or you can make them. I will see if I can find the technique for you somewhere but you pretty must spread out a thin layer of tempered choc. on a cool surface, let it set up to the right consistency and use a wide metal putty knife or an offset to push rolls of chocolate.

First you melt the chocolate, spread it on a marble slab or back of a
cookie sheet or pan. When it is almost set, you slowly scrape it by pushing it away from you using a knife or that thing you use to apply spakle on a wall before you paint, and when doing this, the chocolate will curl up like the size of a cigarette. You use a tooth pick to pick them up.

It is a bit tricky because you have to do this at the exact consistency or temp. of the chocolate..

That many chocolate curls would be a LOT of work!

Its true, we did them in a class, they are fun, its good to know how, but it takes some practice to get them to all be consistant, not to mention the practice of tempering the chocolate just right. If you are wanting to just do a cake quick? I'd buy them.

anyone have a link to where you can buy them? I cant seem to find anything.

http://www.pastrychef.com/

They are under "Chocolate cigarettes" I just looked..

That's a really great site, thanks for the link, nichi!

Thanks for the info! I wasn't looking to make them right this second or anything. A wedding we went to over the weekend used them, and I thought it might be something fun to do some time. Sounds like it might be something fun to *buy* some time!

THANK YOU NICHI!!

Nati posted a tutorial on this in the article section:

http://cakecentral.com/article173-How-To-Make-Chocolate-Cigarellos-Natis-Way.html

Here is a link to a how to site...check it out.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/boonenati/cigarettes.html

Hope this helps.