Design / Colouring
We’ll use naturally coloured cocoa butters to design our Easter Eggs. For this marble design, we don’t use any tools, just our fingers. It’s a lot like finger painting, but, if you have experience with colouring chocolate, you’ll know we do the colouring in reverse to how you’d paint a canvas. So I’ll show you how to control the ‘paint’ and get the effect you’re looking for. In this class we’ll be working with a larger palette of colours than I usually do; blue, green, turquoise, white, purple, red and pink.
Shelling
Once the moulds are painted, it’s time to shell the mould. This can pose questions for people around how much chocolate to use for the shell, how to know how much to use/you’ll need, how to get the shell thickness that you’re looking for, and so on. We’ll go through all of these points in the class.
Sealing / Fusing The Eggs
In order to get that 3D egg, rather than it having one flat side, we’ll need to connect the two halves together. There are several ways to do this, but in class we’ll connect the two eggs by fusing them together. In this case, we’ll need to form a thick edge. I’ll show you the tips and tricks I have learnt to get that edge you need without it cracking or breaking during the shelling process.
Filling The Eggs / Chocolate Truffles
Before fusing, you can fill the eggs with nuts, small chocolates, candies, love notes, soft fillings, etc… In this class, we’ll make some easy chocolate truffles, enrobe them and then fill the eggs with these before connecting them.
