Chocolate Rose

Making Roses from Chocolate

1/3 cup Corn Syrup

Method

1.  Melt your chocolate in the microwave or over a double boiler.  Need to know how to melt chocolate, instructions here.

2.  Mix well and smooth out all the lumps working with a plastic heatproof spatula.

3.  Add the corn syrup using your spatula remove all the corn syrup from the cup and mix very well.

4.  Place onto plastic wrap and cover well and place in fridge until it hardens.

5.  Remove from the fridge.

6.  Remove a portion from the chocolate and form a bowl, knead together until it becomes the same consistency and temperature.

7.  Roll into a log shape and cut into 8 equal pieces.

8.  Take one piece and roll into a ball, then press out the edges to form a petal shape (similar to a tear drop).  Do the same for the other pieces.

9.  To make the chocolate rose take one of the petals and curl the petal to form a cone, then unfurl one side.

10.  Inside the unfurl petal place another petal, roll the petal around the first gently pressing the petals at the base, add another chocolate petal placing it inside the second, repeat these steps until all the petal have been used.

11.  Gently ease the petals out and shape so that they look like a natural rose.

12.  Pinch of the excess chocolate at the base.

The chocolate flowers can be kept in the freezer so you can always have some on hand.