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  • Today we're looking at how to make chocolate bowls using ice as a mould, and this chocolate

  • sphere. To start with we'll need to melt our chocolate. I'm gonna to use chocolate melts.

  • To melt those in the microwave, 30 seconds, stir, 20 seconds, stir, 10 seconds, stir,

  • and then repeat that until it is completely melted. You must stir it, or they will burn.

  • And use a bowl that doesn't get hot.

  • So to use an ice mould, obviously you have to make the ice in the shape that you want,

  • so I've used some cheap sphere ice moulds from China for these moulds. And then just

  • simply put your chocolate in a zip-lock bag and zig-zag it back and forth over the top

  • of your ice. And then before it sets completely hard, you need to get a round cookie cutter.

  • And just place that over the top to cut off any excess chocolate, unless of course you

  • want the excess chocolate there in your design, I didn't in these ones. So just, on each of

  • them, push down, and then you should just be able to wait a couple of minutes, and simply

  • lift the chocolate off the ice, because the ice starts to melt and get smaller, which

  • makes it ver easy to get the chocolate off.

  • Then the next question of course is, can you use that same mehtod with a larger chocolate?

  • Well yes you can. Here I've made a more of a lacy chocolate bowl, using a large ice mould.

  • I didn't find it as stable as using containers as the mould. Proabably because some of the

  • water from the ice gets between the joins of the chocolate, but it is a tecnique that

  • does work. So simply take your chocolate again in a zip-lock bag and start to pipe in on.

  • Make sure all your design joins up. You can't have gaps in it, because obviously when the

  • ice is gone, it needs to be able to hold itself together. So keep piping until you've got

  • a design that is completely joined together. Leave it for about 10minutes for the ice to

  • melt out a bit more, and then simply take it off the top. I had some paper towel under

  • the al-foil to absorb the water from the ice as it melts. And then you can fill it with

  • strawberries or whatever you so like for your dessert.

  • You can click on the other two videos here to see how to make chocolate bowls using containers

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