Chocolate Curls

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Chocolate curls make and ideal decoration for many chocolate dessert recipes.

You can make curls very quickly by using a vegetable peeler.These can be made in advance and stored for several weeks in an airtight container.

Quick Curls

1. Bring a thick piece or bar of chocolate to room temperature. (If your chocolate is too cold you will end up with grated chocolate and if it is to warm you will slice it).

2. Pull the blade of a vegetable peeler along the edge of the chocolate and allow the curls to fall on a plate or a piece or non stick baking in a single layer.

3. To use these fine curls place on the dessert using a skewer or toothpick as your fingers will melt the curls.

Chunky Curls

The chunky curls are best made with dark chocolate which is melted with vegetable oil about 5g (1 teaspoon) per 30g (1 oz). The oil keeps the chocolate from hardening.

1. Melt 170g (6 oz) of dark chocolate with 30g (2 tablespoons) vegetable oil stir until smooth.

2. Pour the mixture into a small rectangular or square tin lined with foil or non stick baking paper to give you a block that measures about 2.5cm (1 inch thick).

3. Allow the block to come to room temperature, remove from the tin.

4.Then use a vegetable peeler to create short chunky curls.

Pictures of Chocolate Curls

Use chocolate curls to decorate the tops of cakes

Color and flavor white chocolate to make a colorful cake decoration

White and milk chocolate have been used to make these curls.
Simply melt white chocolate and place into a container to set and then melt milk chocolate and pour over the top of the white and allow to set.

These long curls are made by spreading melted chocolate thinnly on a work surface and using a long bladed knife at an angle scrape the nearly set chocolate to make large curls.