Chocolate mold Easter egg spotted

Chocolate mold Easter egg spotted

With this chocolate mold you need about 200 grams of couverture per pass. If you use 50 grams of couverture for make-up, you need 150 grams for pouring. 

Chocolate coating tempering

Before you can use the mold, you need to prepare a very important component: the delicious chocolate coating. It is not enough to simply melt the drops. The chocolate coating must be tempered before use. Use only high-quality couverture and not the chocolate from the supermarket. When tempering, each couverture goes through three stages. Melting, cooling and heating again. After the last stage, the couverture has reached the optimum processing temperature. Depending on the couverture, the temperatures vary. If you are looking for the Table in our blog post, then nothing can really go wrong. To make sure that your couverture really has the right temperature, you can additionally use a Chocolate thermometer to the help.

Chocolate molds and how to use them

For all molds used to pour chocolate molds, preparation is extremely important. Rinse the mold with lukewarm water and a gentle dishwashing detergent. This must not contain lye or rinse aid, as this would corrode the molds. Then rinse off all residues with lukewarm water and dry the mold very well. Polish the mold with a non-fibrous absorbent cotton or a very fine handkerchief. From now on, you should not touch the mold directly, otherwise fingerprints will be visible on the chocolate later. Hold the mold at the edge where no chocolate will be poured later. Make sure that your mold has reached room temperature, because a mold that is too hot or too cold can interrupt the tempering process.

Make up the shapes

Making up the mold means decorating the chocolate mold with different types of chocolate (white, dark or milk chocolate) in different colors. If you want to learn exactly how to pour a chocolate figurine, you will learn in this Video more about this. When making up the id, start with the splash detail. This is done with the help of a Cornet drawn into the mold. A cornet is a special paper made of glassine, which is rolled into a cornet and filled with liquid tempered couverture. This is like the colored pencil, which is needed when drawing, simply with chocolate. To give the chocolate figure a special look, you can color the white tempered couverture with fat-soluble powder paint to get any color, whether red, blue or green. To make the powder color dissolve well, you can take a little tempered couverture from the large quantity and mix it in a small container. Only when the powder color has dissolved, you can add the color to the large amount. With these colors, for example, a Santa Claus gets his red hat or the Easter Bunny gets an orange carrot. It is important that all materials are clean, dry and free of grease. Paint your egg with your favorite colors and create a unique look.

Pouring and finishing the mold

Once you are satisfied with all the colored details, let the whole thing set again for a short time. Then you take a larger brush to hand. Use it to brush the entire shape with the couverture. Use the type of couverture that you want your product to have. For example, if you want to make a rabbit, use white couverture for the eyes or ears and dark for the pupil. The type to pour is the couverture that your Easter egg will take later. In this case, that could be a milk couverture. After brushing the milk couverture over a wide area, no more air bubbles should be visible. Otherwise, these would be visible as holes in the finished mold. Use a metal horn to remove chocolate from the surface of the mold halves. Now you can fill the first half of the mold with the remaining couverture. Place the second half on top of the first mold and place the four clamps firmly around the edges of the polycarbonate molds. Now sway the mold well in all directions. This will allow the couverture to spread throughout the mold. Turn the mold over from time to time. It is important that you swing the mold back and forth for 5 minutes to ensure that your egg is equally thin in all places. Put the egg now for 5 minutes in the refrigerator. After these 5 minutes, remove the clamps and place the mold in the refrigerator for another 10 minutes. Now you can remove the egg from the mold and place it in your Easter basket.

If you want to fill your egg, you can pour the two halves without the clamp and glue them together later with some chocolate glaze. 

Use of polycarbonate

Polycarbonate is not a simple plastic or hard plastic. Unlike most plastics can withstand very high temperatures. Polycarbonate is very transparent, is very strong and incredibly robust. It is considered almost unbreakable and scratch resistant, which is why it is often used instead of glass. You can therefore find the thermoplastic polymer in the production of eyeglass lenses, car headlights and in the construction industry. Since it is also lighter than glass, this is a welcome alternative. These properties do not necessarily make the material cheap, and polycarbonate is therefore only used when it is really necessary. For the confectionery sector, it means that perfect chocolates, chocolate bars or other chocolate products can be made in the mold. Unlike silicone, polycarbonate gives chocolate its shine after polishing. Because the chocolate mold is dimensionally stable, the chocolate can contract as it cools, allowing it to easily release from the mold. Silicone, on the other hand, is known for preferring to conform to the masses. This is not desirable in confectionery. Therefore, we recommend that you avoid silicone molds for chocolate products and use high-quality polycarbonate.

Chocolate world miniSchoggi in Adliswil

Immerse yourself in the World of chocolate. Whether pralines, chocolate bars, chocolate bars or other chocolate products, we would like to introduce you to the pleasure of chocolate making. Whether a tempering, pouring, or praline course, at miniSchoggi we will certainly meet your taste. As a great experience for the whole family or for the production of extraordinary gifts, our figure casting courses are perfect. At miniSchoggi, you'll learn how to properly polish polycarbonate molds, make them cute and pour them out nice and thin. In this way, young and old can create colorful and elegant chocolate figures. Children as young as 8 can participate and make a very special Easter bunny or Santa Claus. An experience for young and old.