When I saw what Astrid from La Cerise created for her daughter’s birthday I was really fascinated. Not having a birthday cake to bake right then, I decided to try my own version of a versatile chocolate decoration. Chocolate is a perfect decoration for me because I don’t like all this fondant and royal icing stuff.

The method is really simple: Just take a drawing of your choice and place it under transparent baking paper. Melt chocolate in a freezer bag and cut a very little hole to draw thin chocolate lines. Trace the lines of your drawing. Once the outer line hardened you can fill the spaces with another kind (colour) of chocolate.

It’s really easy if you start with small chocolate decoration such a the small christmas tree. After the drawing is complete, place it in the fridge. The transfer the decorations (upside down) to a cake or a dessert you want to decorate with it.

If you don’t believe in your artistic abilities you can simply choose drawings from any window color book and take photocopies of them - or scan the page and print it. Be sure to start with simple drawings without too many details - they might get lost when drawing with chocolate as it will not be as acurate as a normal drawing.

Even if you are not in to drawing at all: Try “painting” little grids: They make nice and noble chocolate decorations.

You might want to write with chocolate (names, wishes, etc.). Then be sure to write backwards as you will have to turn the decoration upside down.

I had best results with really good chocolate. I melt chocolate regularily for various purposes and found out that high quality chocolate melts ways better than cheap chocolate. And of course good chocolate tastes better. You wouldn’t like to ruin your lovely cake with bad chocolate, would you?

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