Modeling chocolate facts for kids
The roses on this cake were made from modeling chocolate.
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| Type | Chocolate |
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| Main ingredients | Chocolate, corn syrup, glucose syrup, or golden syrup |
Modeling chocolate is a special kind of chocolate paste. It's also known as chocolate leather, plastic chocolate, or candy clay. You make it by melting regular chocolate and mixing it with a sweet syrup like corn syrup, glucose syrup, or golden syrup.
This unique chocolate is mostly used by professional bakers and fancy dessert shops, called pâtisseries. They use it to create amazing decorations for cakes and pastries.
What Makes Modeling Chocolate Special?
Modeling chocolate is different from other soft materials like buttercream frosting, marzipan, or fondant. It's much firmer and holds its shape really well. This means bakers can mold it into many different shapes and structures that would be hard to make with softer ingredients.
How Bakers Use It
Bakers can shape modeling chocolate into detailed flowers, figures, ribbons, or even entire sculptures for cakes. It's like edible clay! You can make modeling chocolate from white, dark, or milk chocolate, so it comes in different colors and flavors.
