Today we are making chocolate pencils and paper. This is a great fun social dessert

that will get the conversations rolling. Serve them with a candle so you can run the chocolate

pencil through the flame and use it to draw a masterpiece.

The first thing you will need is some melted chocolate, for this one I suggest you use

compound chocolate or fake chocolate, which is chocolate which does not contain any cocoa

butter. It doesn't taste as good as real chocolate but it has a higher melting point so the pencils

won't melt on you guests hands when they hold the pencils.

Put your chocolate into a piping bag or a plastic bag and cut off the very corner. And

then squeeze the bag to fill up the drinking straw. You need to choose cheap straws so

that they are easy to get off later, if you use really thick quality plastic straws you

wont be able to peel them off without breaking the chocolate. If you have flexi straws like

I do then don't fill up the bendy part.

Place them in the freezer for 10 minutes to set then using a craft knife cut along one

side of the straw. Open the straw at one end and peel it back all the way to the other

end, then place them back in the freezer until you are ready to use them.

To make your chocolate paper take some white compound chocolate, melt it and pour it onto

some non-stick baking paper. Add another sheet over the top and use a rolling pin to spread

it out thinly. Then working quickly peel off the top sheet and put it down flat so that

you have two really thin sheets of chocolate. If you are working on a cold bench or live

in a cold climate your chocolate may set too quickly to do this neatly so instead of working

on the bench put your baking paper onto a baking tray that has been slightly warmed

in the oven. And that will give you a bit more time to work.

Before it sets take a knife and split it into pages in a size that will fit on your serving

platters. Then to keep them flat place another sheet of baking paper over the top and add

some weight onto it. If you don't do this they will just curve slightly as they set.

Then for your basic set up remove your paper carefully and place it onto your serving dishes.

I am using tiles because they are completely flat and they are low cost. Then add a candle,

sharpen your chocolate pencils using a new clean sharpener of course. And then leave

a few of the chocolate shavings on the tile just for presentation.

For a more elaborate set up you can add some different coloured chocolate paper and pencils,

a modeling chocolate eraser, the recipe for the modeling chocolate is on the channel.

And a mini piping bag of ganache which can be used for finer details onto the artwork.

If you want it to be colourful you could of course use candy melts to make different coloured

pencils or colour white chocolate using oil based food colour.

Light your candles and you are ready to serve. Make sure you have your camera ready to take

a photo of your guests creations before they eat them.

And have plenty of spare pencils and paper on hand so everyone can draw as many pictures

as they like.

What painting would you like to see drawn in chocolate? Why don't you give me a challenge

put the painting or artists name in the comments below. I'll give you a couple of weeks to

get your requests in and then the one that has been requested the most I will do that

one for you.

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