How About A Thread To Seriously Discuss Chocolate Making?!?
Sugar Work By sayhellojana Updated 5 Oct 2011 , 1:33am by SpatulaGoddess
Oh well that sounds cute ! I saw some like that, did you cut them when the choc was till kind of soft ?
Yes, but I made the mistake of pouring on the marble & had to work fast! Oh and I found some sheets I had ordered like you make choc prints so I even tried some of that so I have a few hearts with snowflakes on them! I can't see me working fast enough to put that around a cake! 
Are you talking about the choc transfers ?
Oh and yes I bet that marble hardend that choc pretty fast !LOL!!
I like them ! I have a variety of different sheets. I cant wait to see everyones v/day creations !
Had to take a break & cook a meal! 
I have my cut-out cookies and my vintage image cookies in the freezer and my imaged Oreos! I am going to make a single recipe of hearts tonite to try with fondant on top and I am going to be done except I have to do some CC's for all these little choc hearts!
Duh! Telling all this in the wrong thread! Oh well, call it a "senior moment"!!!
I'm still stuffed from all that "dog food"!
I'm planning to make a bow for the top of a cake, like a looped bow from gumpaste, out of chocolate. I have some acetate and my plan, if all goes well, is to make the loops from that, let it set, and glue it together with chocolate. I have gold swirly transfers too! If all goes well, this will be one of my entries in the Arizona cake and sugar art show.
Oh Linda your so funny!
Hey Bob did you see the post /reply I left you on the tiny impressions thread? 
On why Im sure you can use the cutter and stamper seperate ?
Hey sayhellojana . That sounds awesome I hope it turns out for you !
Im still up to my eyeballs in pink ribbon choc,s.cookies, cupcakes for next week !
Thanks fiddle. I'm crossing my fingers. I'm sure someone else has done it, but I havent seen it yet so I'm excited.
Oh Linda your so funny!
Hey Bob did you see the post /reply I left you on the tiny impressions thread?
On why Im sure you can use the cutter and stamper seperate ?Hey sayhellojana . That sounds awesome I hope it turns out for you !
Im still up to my eyeballs in pink ribbon choc,s.cookies, cupcakes for next week !
I did see that! Thank you!! And I just couldn't wait so I ordered my set this morning -- only to come home later and find that the impressions are light and have to be drawn in... 
Why oh why couldn't I have just waited?? Because it's a cake toy, that's why!
I'm still stuffed from all that "dog food"!
Well I never got to try that recipe! I need to put that on my "to-do" list! Sounds soo good!
I know, it's not only awesome, it's ADDICTIVE!! 
Oh ya I can say for sure that Dog Food is yummy!
Its so yummy Im not making it unless theres a special reason to, Or I would break my scale, and I dont mean the food scale!
Oh ya I can say for sure that Dog Food is yummy!
Its so yummy Im not making it unless theres a special reason to, Or I would break my scale, and I dont mean the food scale!
I hear ya!!
Thanks fiddle. I'm crossing my fingers. I'm sure someone else has done it, but I havent seen it yet so I'm excited.
Jana I cannot wait to see the bow! Of course you will have to explain how you do it! We don't have any kind of shows like your talking about!
No email notifications. I was wondering what you all were up too lately.
I'll have to catch up on everything later.
I made little circle and tear drop cut outs of a chocolate transfer and then made little sandwiches filled with choc. mousse. (per Autumn Carpenters book). Except I screwed up the mousse by over mixing. DOH!!! Had to practically melt it back down and put it into the fridge. It wasn't really mousse like but more like a mousse flavored chocolate that you were able to pipe...barely. Still pretty, but not what I wanted to happen.
What type of chocolates and pastries would you make to wow someone?
I might have a good opportunity and I don't want to blow it.
sayhellojana... Those cupcakes are beautiful!
mkolmar.. Thats awesome what you did with the transfers, I have always wanted to try those even bought sheets hehe! You didnt post the choc sandwiches?
Im gonna think on the choc and pastries to wow !
Well, I didn't end up making the chocolate bow 
BUT, the AZ cake and sugar art show was a blast! You should have seen me waddling up to Michelle Foster - I couldn't Speak! I have never been so starstruck. lol. "Hi..name, mine Jana....cake..pretty...er...picture?" What a dummy
I'm going to attempt the bow as soon as I get an opportunity though
LinLiv - nope. I added a TON of melted bittersweet chocolate and then a few good squirts of the chocolate malt syrup to add a bit of sweetness. It turned out great. that was a half batch of IMBC, so about 3 cups, and I added at least 8 oz. of chocolate. Can't have too much, right 
Chocolate IMBC sounds like something I would just stick my head in the bowl and eat my way out of. Between that and the dog food recipe I may break my scale too.
Fiddle-I wasn't sure where to post those transfer sandwiches. I had some chocolate pictures deleted since there is no where to actually put choc./candy pictures by CC rules. That's fine though, I understand why.
I wasn't sure what these would fall under. If I can't post them anywhere I'll try getting DH to post a picture to this thread (I'm horrible at that)
They really are pretty and where not hard to do.
Get those transfer sheets and go to town on them. Do you have the perfection strips to put on the sides of the transfer? They help to make sure it's all even, but you can do it without them too. I'll give you a hint though (found this out the hard way) put choc. just in the middle of the transfer and spread it out. Take a straight edge cookie sheet or something else with a straight edge and drag it across. Watch how much choc. you put on the transfer though. Always easier to add then to have too much and have lots of choc. just pushed to the end the transfer in a giant pool.
ohhhhh, those are so pretty! Perfect for Valentines day and weddings.
I went to the liquor store to get bourbon for chocolates. (that sounded bad didn't but I swear it really is for chocolates).
They were getting rid of some of their choc. molds for 50 cents each. They are just the CK heavy plastic molds, but it will work. I bought 17 of them. Some are of swans, hearts, half circles, peanut butter cup molds etc. They had more but I just couldn't justify them. Oh who am I kidding, of course I could, but I restrained myself for once.
mkolmar.. Yes please post them on the thread when you can ! Yes I do have the perfection strips. Thanks for the tip!
Linda those are beautiful, but really you didnt have to make ME so many.
I would of been happy when I got just one ok maybe two in the mail LOL! Nicely done !
Thanks you two!! LOL I had a little left-over chocolate so I cut-out some more little hearts with snowflakes sooo that means I have to make some cupcakes someday this week----I really better do that before the impress. letters get here! Got to work some house duties in here somewhere!
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