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Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we are making this huge Wonder Woman
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Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein picture out of 100% CHOCOLATE!
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To make this crazy, sweet creation print out the pop art artwork nice and large and trace
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around all of the red and pink parts onto some acetate and cut them out.
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Colour some white chocolate using oil-based food colouring and spread it thinly on your
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acetate.
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Then add the lip pieces upside down onto the chocolate.
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And the reason I am going to add them upside down is two-fold, 1 because the acetate on
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the bench side is completely flat, whereas the stuff I'm putting on top is a little bit
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curved.
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And 2 because air bubbles rise up to the top and we don't want any air bubbles on our pieces
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so this way when we flip it over we get the nice, perfect side for our artwork.
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Once that is starting to set cut around the shapes using the acetate as your guide, and
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you can see there right in the middle of the lip there is a big air bubble and that's why
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we are using the other side, not this side.
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Add a whole heap more colour to get that bright red colour.
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To get it this intense I am using coloured cocoa butter which is another way you can
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colour chocolate - you just melt the coloured cooca butter in the microwave and then add
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it and mix it in.
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So you can use that or you can use powdered oil based food colouring.
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You can't use your gel or your liquid food colours because they have the liquid, the
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water in the them will seize the chocolate.
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Spread out the red chocolate and add the pieces over the top and cut around those too.
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When you're cutting out the shapes make some extra cuts running out towards the edge and
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this will just make it easier to get these pieces off.
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If you just have one large outside piece it may be tricky to get off without breaking
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your shapes.
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But if you have lots of little ones it is easier to get them all off.
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For the white colour I am using white cocoa butter on its own and I am spreading it out
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really thinly onto some acetate.
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This is a bit like making your own chocolate transfer sheet.
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White chocolate is actually quite yellow as you know so to try and colour it really white
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is bit tricky.
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Add the tempered white chocolate over the top and put your pieces into place.
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Just like before we need to cut around each one.
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Colour and temper some blue chocolate.
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And to get this bright a blue I used a whole packet of powdered blue food colouring - that
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cartoony blue is pretty intense but it looks awesome.
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Add your pieces over the top, there are so many blue bits it is a bit like doing a jigsaw
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puzzle to get them to fit.
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Just start with the biggest pieces and work down to the smaller ones and you should be
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right.
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Then trace around each of those pieces using your knife.
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Working with chocolate like this takes a long time because you have to temper each batch
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of chocolate.
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Now if you don't know what tempering is, what it does is it makes all the crystals in the
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cocoa butter line up really tightly together so that it sets firmly and room temperature.
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So the chocolate is not all soft at room temperature.
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If you don't know how to do that there's several ways you can do it at home and I've got a
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video called CHOCOLATE SECRETS which shows you how you can do that at home.
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But it does take a little bit of time.
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Each time you want to melt some chocolate, you need to temper that chocolate so there's
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a lot of tempering going on in this artwork.
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Lighten some of your blue by adding more white chocolate and of course temper that.
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Then add the eye pieces on top and cut around them.
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To make the skin with those iconic pop art dots you'll need some bubble wrap.
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Now this one has raised bubbles on one side and smooth plastic on the other.
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Some bubble wraps have that smooth plastic on both sides - and you can't use that type
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so make sure you get this one that has the bubbles.
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Using permanent marker trace the shape of the face and all the other dotty areas of
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skin onto the smooth side of the bubble wrap.
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And make sure you also mark down the area on the face that is plain and not dotty too.
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Cut along the lines that you've just drawn so that you end up with 5 pieces of bubble
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wrap.
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Melt 2kg (4.4LB) of white chocolate and temper it of course and then spread that out onto
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a large silicon fondant rolling mat, or if you don't have one of those you could use
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some foil under it instead.
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Level it using a spatula as best as you can and then gently press the bubble wrap down
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on top.
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Look at all those dots perfectly lined up.
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Add all of the rest of the pieces and check that the chocolate is coming up in between
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each of the bubbles to fill that area up.
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If it's not, just gently press down with your fingers to get it to fill up.
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Cover that whole thing in non-stick baking paper or you could use foil.
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Then place something heavy and flat over the top and push it down gently to make your pieces
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are level.
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Remove those and once the chocolate is starting to set but is still soft, use a knife to cut
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around each piece.
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Once it is set remove the excess and place it in a bowl.
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Peel off the bubble wrap so you're left with this beautiful, textured chocolate.
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Look at that, doesn't it just look perfect!
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Melt the white chocolate off-cuts and put some of them in a smaller bowl and add to
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that some oil-based food colouring.
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To make the cartoony pink, I'm using some red and then to off-set the yellowy tone from
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the chocolate I am adding the tiniest amount of blue.
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Once you're happy with that shade, you can then colour the big bowl of the white chocolate
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and temper that and then pour it over the set chocolate.
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By test colouring on a small batch first if you make a mistake you haven't ruined the
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whole lot.
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That's why I encourage you to just colour a small bowl and then the rest.
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Now it doesn't matter here if you still have a thin layer of pink over the top of the white,
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in fact that's just fine, that'll make sure that they're all full.
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So just have it very thin going over the top and I'm just going to work on one piece at
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a time here because they are such big pieces.
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Once that pink chocolate is starting to set take a scraper and run it across the top to
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scrape back a thin layer so that then you can see the pattern that we are after underneath.
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Continue scraping it back and if you have any areas which are a little bit recessed,
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like I've got a little bit here, then you may need to use the edge of a spoon or a sharp
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knife to scrape those back.
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I am so glad that this worked!
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In my head when I came up with the idea I thought yeah this will definitely work but
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once I'd actually committed so many blocks of chocolate to this and so much time tempering
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and cutting out all of the template pieces I started to have doubts of what if this doesn't
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work!
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But it's looking beautiful so we're all on track.
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Now because we've scraped it back it does have a really fine white sort of dust over
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the top of it, I don't know if you can see that but the chocolate looks a little bit
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dull when it's been scraped.
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So to bring it back to life what you need to do is fold some paper towel and dip it
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in some ice cold water and rub it all over the surface, I don't know if you can see the
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difference on the camera here.
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Here is before and after, before and after - it's not a lot of difference, I can probably
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see it better with my eyes than you can see on camera.
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Temper some dark chocolate and add to that some black oil based food colouring.
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Keep adding more and more until you get a really good black colour.
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Pour it onto a big sheet of acetate and place the black pieces on top.
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Now I have only cut out the bits that are on the face here not the hair, we will do
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all of those bits later.
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At this point I realized I am going to need a LOT more dark chocolate and a baseboard
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for the artwork.
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So after I've cut these out I'll pause filming and go and buy another 20 blocks of dark chocolate,
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2 more blocks of white and some wood for underneath!
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These little tiny ones are going to be fiddly to cut out so I'm just going to pipe those
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ones instead.
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Ok back from the shops now we need lots of foil to cover the board.
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My local hardware store cuts the MDF wooden pieces to size which just saves me a lot of
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time getting out the power tools.
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And then just wrap the foil around the edges and tape that into place.
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Once it's all taped up, flip it over so that we've go the foil side facing up.
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Now we're going to need some wood to make a frame so the chocolate doesn't just drip
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off the edges.
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Take each of the pieces of wood and wrap it in foil just squeezing it at the ends.
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Tape each corner into place so that it sits like a frame around the edge.
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The frame is not actually attached to the base board and this is so that we can remove
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it later.
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But we want it to sit nice and tightly and snug around the baseboard.
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Place the printout into the frame and use that to position the areas of skin.
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For the larger pieces you can kind of hold it and hover into place then move the paper
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out.
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For the smaller pieces I found putting it underneath and then just feeling with my fingers
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to check if they're in the right place and adjusting them accordingly is what worked.
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Temper some more white chocolate.
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Then add some silicone bake snakes at the top and bottom of the face or if you don't
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have those you could use foil here instead.
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Pour that tempered chocolate into the gap and for the finer areas I'm just going to
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use a piping bag just to make sure I'm getting into each of the corners and that it didn't
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drip it everywhere.
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While that is setting we want to melt and temper our dark chocolate.
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And into that I'm also going to mix the leftovers of black chocolate that we had.
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That's going to darken it a little, it's not going to make it that full black.
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I would just need SO MUCH colouring to get this much chocolate black.
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So I'm going to leave it that browny chocolatey colour.
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Pour a jug full of dark chocolate up the top area and spread it out for her hair, trying
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to get it as smooth as you can.
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If you get a little bit over the skin don't worry we'll fix that up later just get it
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as thin as you can, just use a piece of paper towel and just wipe off as much as you can.
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Add the headband into place in the top corner there.
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And then get some more jugs of chocolate ... this is a VERY BIG artwork, this is a lot of chocolate
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going into this!
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Pour that into the next section and spread it down and around to fill all the way to
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the edges.
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Because this chocolate piece is her hair, try and make the lines from your spatula in
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the same direction as her hair should flow.
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So run it from the top down towards her shoulder.
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You can lift up that little shoulder piece while you spread the chocolate through that
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gap and then just pop it back carefully into place.
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Next carefully add your blue pieces where they should go, starting with the bits that
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sit on the edges because the chocolate at the edge is going to set faster than the middle.
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I love the shapes of all these pieces, they all flow.
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They're a bit art nouveau sort of look to the shapes.
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Temper a whole heap more dark chocolate and pour that into the final section.
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Spread it out using a spatula and then use a piping bag for those finer areas.
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If your piping bag happens to pop like mine did - that's a bit of a bummer!
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Then just push as much of that chocolate off the skin as possible.
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Then add all of those blue and red pieces into place using your picture for reference.
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Jut keep looking at your picture and keep checking that for reference so you know where
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they go.
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Again try and do the ones that are touching the edge first because that chocolate is going
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to set first.
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Once it is set use a sharp knife just to scrape off any of the dark chocolate on the skin
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area that should not be there.
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And now to add the face.
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Cut your template and place it on the chocolate.
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And use it to position the lips, then remove the paper.
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You can 'glue' it into place using some dark chocolate and then add the pink lips and the
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white teeth on top and glue those into place using chocolate too.
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Continue using the template to add the pieces to where they go.
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And you may have noticed there are 2 white dots on the face, that was where there must
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have been 2 bubbles on the bubble wrap that were popped so they didn't make a hole.
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I'm kind of hoping that one of these black pieces is going to cover that and disguise
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it.
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There you go one of the eyebrows ... it's not covering it, it's not over the top but
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it's close enough that we don't notice it so much anymore.
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Add the white of the eye and then the black over that and the bottom eyeliner should sit
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just underneath that.
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Add the blue iris, then the black pupil on top of that.
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If your back is aching from bending over chocolate art all day do some stretches...
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And then put the other eye into place.
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Pipe a tiny dot of white chocolate onto each eye.
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Sign your 7kg (15LB) chocolate artwork in the corner.
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Clean up the kitchen and then lie on the floor and take some photos and you're done!
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