Hello Modeling Chocolate, Goodbye Fondant.
Modeling chocolate, or chocolate clay, is the new fondant for cake decorating. Whatever fondant can do, modeling chocolate can do better. It’s as simple as that.
Fondant is the popular sugary dough used for cake decorating. The stuff on wedding cakes that gets left on the plate.
Modeling chocolate is a chocolate and corn syrup mixture that produces a flexible, edible clay-like material that is perfect for covering cakes, making marvelous flowers, many fabulous decorations, and it tastes delicious. It drapes beautifully, and can be textured, tinted, and molded into shapes. It’s also very easy to use, and does not need to be tempered. It comes pre-made, or you can make it yourself.
For Cake Decorating, Modeling Chocolate Reigns Supreme, both in Flavor and Appearance.
How to make a snazzy rose with modeling chocolate
I made my very first chocolate decorations with modeling chocolate several years ago. My cake decorator friend and owner of Cakework in San Francisco, showed me how to make chocolate roses. I thought they were just so exquisite!
Seriously, when was the last time someone told you they loved the taste of fondant?
I also use modeling chocolate for most of the decorations on my chocolate figures.
Sorry fondant, your 15 minutes is up. Modeling chocolate is the new hip kid on the block.
See my Craftsy.com “Intro to Modeling Chocolate”, review post here
if you want to hear more about the above course!
NEW course: “Modeling Chocolate Magic” on Craftsy.com !
Can it get any better then this? So many new things I have learned to do with modeling chocolate! Lauren Kitchens explains things so simply and has the best personality! Love this class! I only wish I could give it 10 stars!
– CDodd12 (via craftsy.com)
Peace, Love, Chocolate,
Katreece
The Chocolate Addict.com
NOTE: please understand that I am an academically challenged right-brainer, and forgive any typos, grammatical faux pas, and things that don’t make sense.
September 23, 2013 at 7:32 am
Thank you for an alternative to buttercream. I do not like working with fondant, do not like the taste of fondant – can’t think of one positive thing to say about fondant.
Love your work, talent and ideas!
Faithful follower forever
September 25, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Hello Sweet Cindy,
Agreed, and so many people use it. It seems so old fashioned to me. I don’t think they know about modeling chocolate … or they don’t know you can use it in the same way as fondant and it looks/ tastes great.
Cindy, you are THE best 😉
xoxo
October 17, 2013 at 10:32 am
I found a picture of a beautiful chocolate rose to use on my business cards and wanted to know how to make them. Never thought about modeling chocolate. My sister is to blame for getting me addicted to making chocolate. I just made my first Chocolate “Bucket” to donate for a silent auction for a good cause. This will allow me to become even more creative.
I do not have a website yet. Just getting started.
October 27, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Hi Kimberly!
Thanks for stopping by, let me know how it goes, I would love to see what you make, let me know if there is anything I can help you with and good luck.
xoxo
February 24, 2014 at 4:03 am
Nice Blogs
Looks very useful to me but I would like to make this molding chocolate cakes in different ways. I need different colors, so please is there a recipe for making molding chocolate in simpler ways?