Chocolate garnishes make finished dessert look professional and gourmet.
A chocolate garnish adds beauty, texture, and depth to a dessert.
Chocolate can be made into remarkable designs that can go on top of eclairs, wedding cakes, mousse, or tarts.
Rolled Chocolate
You’ll need a couple of tools to make your chocolate garnishes
- piping bag
- #2 piping tip
- chocolate
- parchment paper
- elastic band
- Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals until it’s fully melted. Use a spoon to mix your chocolate in between intervals. You’ll only need 1/4-1/3 cup of chocolate to make a few beautiful chocolate garnish.
- Place your piping tip into a piping bag. Put the piping bag over the edges of a tall glass.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the piping bag.
- Cut the piping bag tip and twist the end of the piping bag to get it ready for piping.
- Cut a strip of parchment paper as long as the length of your chocolate garnish.
- Begin piping your garnish by piping circles the length of your parchment paper. Continue and go back the same way.
- Make another layer of circles beside the first layer. Go back over and create another layer of circles.
- Cut the parchment paper close to one side of the circles.
- Roll the parchment paper and make sure the chocolate does not touch itself when closing the circle of parchment paper.
- Place an elastic band gently over the roll of parchment paper. Don’t squish the parchment paper or you’ll ruin your design.
- Place the chocolate garnish in the freezer for 20 minutes to set it.
- Take the elastic band off of the roll of parchment paper.
- Gently unwrap the parchment paper. Remove the chocolate garnish from the parchment paper.
- Do not hold the chocolate garnish for a very long time in your hand or it will start to melt.
- Place your decorative chocolate piece in an airtight container until you’re ready to use it.
Chocolate Leaf
Tools you’ll need:
- chocolate
- silicone mat
- food safe paintbrush
- fresh leaves
- Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals until it’s fully melted. Use a spoon to mix your chocolate in between intervals. You’ll only need 1/8 cup of chocolate to make a few beautiful chocolate leaves.
- Lay your fresh leaves on a silicone mat.
- Dip your food safe paintbrush in the melted chocolate and paint the chocolate onto the fresh leaves.
- Cover it fully and make it as thick as you need to for your preference.
- Place the chocolate leaves in the freezer for 20 minutes to set it.
- Gently peel the fresh leaf from the chocolate carefully, not to disturb the chocolate.
- Do not hold the chocolate leaf for a very long time in your hand or it will start to melt.
- Place your decorative leaves in an airtight container until you’re ready to use it.
Chocolate Snowflake
Chocolate snowflakes are easy to make using only a few tools:
- Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals until it’s fully melted. Use a spoon to mix your chocolate in between intervals. You’ll only need 1/4-1/3 cup of chocolate to make lots of chocolate snowflakes.
- Place your piping tip into a piping bag. Put the piping bag over the edges of a tall glass.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the piping bag.
- Cut the piping bag tip and twist the end of the piping bag to get it ready for piping.
- Begin piping the snowflakes. Touch the tip to your silicone mat, pipe it so it’s a bit of a thick circle.
- Lift the tip of the piping bag and make a line. Push out a bit more chocolate so it matches the other end of the snowflake.
- Make 2 lines perpendicular. Make 2 more lines diagonally for a total of 6 branches on your chocolate snowflake.
- Add tiny branches to all of the chocolate snowflake arms.
- Place the snowflake in the freezer for 20 minutes to set it.
- Gently peel the chocolate snowflake from the silicone mat. Do not hold the chocolate snowflake for a very long time in your hand or it will start to melt.
- Store your chocolate snowflakes in an airtight container.
Chocolate Writing
You’ll need a couple of tools to pipe your chocolate words
- Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals until it’s fully melted. Use a spoon to mix your chocolate in between intervals. You’ll only need 1/4-1/3 cup of chocolate to make your chocolate words.
- Place your piping tip into a piping bag. Put the piping bag over the edges of a tall glass.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the piping bag.
- Cut the piping bag tip and twist the end of the piping bag to get it ready for piping.
- Place your parchment paper or silicone mat on a baking sheet. This will make it easier to transfer it to the freezer later. Any plate would work for this as well depending on how much freezer space you have.
- Begin piping your words as if you were handwriting the word. After you’ve completed the word, trace a line underneath the word to make the letters reinforced, or have something that will be easily stuck into your cake.
- Remove the tip from the chocolate word.
- Place the chocolate words in the freezer for 20 minutes to set them.
- Do not hold the chocolate writing decoration for a very long time in your hand or it will start to melt.
- Place your decorative chocolate writing in an airtight container until you’re ready to use it.