Chocolate Shards

There are so many ways chocolate can be used for decoration, and I am only starting to learn few of them. I have done chocolate collars a few times now and am fairly confident in making them. This time when I was asked to do a chocolate cake, I started trolling through various images online to find out what could be done. And my oh my, there are so many things which I wouldn’t even dare attempt at the moment, but these shards looked good. Apparently there are (at least) two ways of making these shards, and I will be writing about the method I used.

I used the shards to decorate this Devil’s Food cake.

 

Ingredients:

Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate – Cubed

Method:

Melt all three chocolates in separate bowls, either in microwave or a double boiler. If melting in a microwave, heat for only 30 sec bursts and stir constantly. Stop when most of the chocolate is melted, stir briskly to melt all the remaining chocolate.

Take a large square piece of baking paper and put on a movable surface, like a tray. Drizzle dark chocolate, then milk, then white all over it. Then hold the tray and paper up carefully, trying to sort of let the chocolates merge a little bit into each other.

Now put the tray in the fridge to set for an hour.

Take another square piece of baking paper and put on your work surface. Take the chilled and set chocolate from the fridge and invert it on top of the second piece of baking paper, then carefully peel off the baking paper from the chilled chocolate. The chocolate would now be inverted, and look like this

 

Now taking a sharp knife, trim the sides to get a square/rectangular shape. You need not be very precise on this, just get some neat edges. Now, using the same knife, cut it into shards. The trick is to touch the chocolate as less as possible, or not at all, because it WILL melt because of the heat of your hands.

 

 

The beautiful shards are ready!!