I made my first batch of modeling chocolate and think I need help. I followed the recipe and it became very thick and formed a ball when I stirred it. Then I removed it to plastic wrap where it cooled and then put in the refrigerator. This morning I took it out and it was hard as a brick. I cracked a piece off and starting working with it and it warmed but it was not pliable or stretchy at all. It was like a handful of mud in it's consistency. Certainly didn't look like the videos I've seen. I tried rolling it out but it was greasy and stuck to my fondant roller.

I know it's not right, but I've never worked with the stuff before and don't really know how it's supposed to look, feel or what I can do to fix it, if anything. Help! (thanks)

When I make mine, it tends tobe lumped together as I stir in the corn syrup. I spread it on waxpaper about 1/2 inch thick for a couple of hours. Then I wrap it up in double saran wrap, but don't put it in the fridge. I'm not sure if the fridge part is the problem, but maybe. When I'm ready to use it it is typically very hard to start with, then softens as it is worked.

I agree. I've never refrigerated mine either. I just needs to cool completely at room temperature. You might try microwaving it for just a few seconds. I haven't used it in a while because I finally found a fondant recipe that I liked the taste and learned to add Tylose and now I can do just about anything that I used to only make with modeling chocolate.

THe recipe I use from CC also does not call to put in the frig. It "rests" for a couple hours. It does get a little hard, but workable very soon after I have it in my hands. I love the stuff!

That sounds about right, like a tootsie roll.

It does not stretch like fondant. My recipe has corn syrup and has some "stretch" to it but nothing like fondant. I can roll it out and also put it in my pasta machine, but you're not gonna get the same stretch as fondant. Mine is like a tootsie roll.

Is modeling chocolate the same as chocolate plastique? If it is I love the stuff I covered the cigarello cake in my pictures in white plastique cant wait to use it again. I wouldnt compare it to fondant because apart from being able to cover a cake in it the same as fondant it acts in a completely diferent way to fondant.