Magic Chocolate Flower Dessert- Valentines day Special

Hey friends Valentine ’s Day is around the corner and how about surprising your love of life with this magic chocolate flower dessert, you will need only 3 ingredients chocolate cream and a cupcake. To watch the video here is the link to my YouTube channel.. Do SUBSCRIBE for weekly videos :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_WhMr2gRUM

First of all lets learn what is tempering of chocolate

What is tempering?

Tempering chocolate is an essential step for making smooth, glossy, evenly colored coating for your dipped chocolates. The tempering process takes chocolate through a temperature curve, a process which aligns the chocolate's crystals to make it smooth, silky, and glossy.

HOW to TEMPER?

Firstly cut chocolates in small pieces

Place a bowl on flame with water for double boiler

Then place glass bowl dry on the bowl of water

Add half of chocolates in double boiler

and once it starts meting add another batch of chocolate to bring down the temperature and mix it well

so that you get a running consistency melted chocolate.

Now to make petals take parchment paper and draw straight lines keeping equal distance and then draw curved lines on both sides , this will help us get the petal shape .

Now spread the chocolate thinly, spreading it thinly is very important. And shape it using a toothpick. Tempered chocolate solidifies quickly as it cools, so it is important to maintain its temperature and to keep it moving while you are dipping hence working around quickly is very important.

Use something cylindrical to hold it in place (I am used bangles ) to support the petals and curve it up into a half circle. Once semi set refrigerate for 5 minutes. The petals are ready keep it aside in fridge to maintain the shape while we proceed to make another round shaped chocolate to hold the petals.

Buttercream

Now let’s make butter cream..Add butter and icing sugar in bowl and whip it add vanilla essence and red food colour and mix it will. Then put a rose nozzle and fill in the cream for piping.

Take a cupcake of your choice; you can purchase it from the store too. First cover the cupcake with cream and then pipe in the roses.

.To assemble the flower, remove the petals from fridge and cut the round in half and use melted chocolate to hold it in place do the same with another half. Now take the half flower and carefully place the cupcake inside it and close it with another half flower

To make the petals open take dark chocolate in a glass and add hot cream into it and mix well. Before serving reheat the chocolate mixture and immediately pour the hot sauce.

The hot sauce melts the base of the petals making them fall open beautifully. Do subscribe to my channel and keep cooking.