Chocolate Decorations
by Jean-Pierre Wybauw

Chocolate Decorations is Master Chocolatier Jean-Pierre Wybauw's great new chocolate book, a worthy companion to his famous Fine Chocolates which is a best selling professional book for the chocolatier, decorator, and pastry chef.

Features:

• more than 100 delicious and original chocolate decoration techniques
• hundreds of clear action, full-color, high quality images
• color photos of finished pieces
• detailed text instructions

Contents Decorations of Frozen Materials

• Decorations of frozen marble
• Various decorations with the help of a frozen spherical mould
• Creating chocolate decorations with the help of a frozen rod or cylinder
• Creating decorations with ice-cold liqueur
• Decoations with ice cream

Piped Decorations

• Lattice decoration
• Lattice cylinder
• Decoation in colored sugar
• Holly
• Palm trees
• Old objects
• Branches
• Pine tree

Decorating Moulds

• Picasso
• Marble
• Endless line
• Negative models in a mould
• Drops
• Broken egg effect
• Mould with sides
• Puzzle
• Spaghetti egg
• Airbrush on thin flexible silicone stencils
• Coloring with brush
• Covering with chocolate curls
• Lattice of thickened chocolate
• Egg with all manner of dry fruits, nuts or pearls
• Spraying with thin lines
• Egg with nest
• Structured egg
• Egg with line pattern
• Merging colors
• Special

Flowers

• Flowers
• Assembling the flowers
• Leaves

Techniques for Chocolate Showpieces

• Cut and paste work
• Modeling chocolate
• Kneadable chocolate for modeling
• Preparation of a slab of chocolate for chocolate sculptures
• Gelatine moulds
• Latex moulds
• Silicone moulds
• Piping of chocolate using an airbrush

Various Techniques

• Flambé chocolate
• Abstract
• Curls, triangles, and two-colored strips
• All kinds of tubs
• Wafer-thin glossy chocolate sheets
• Chocolate bow
• Sprials - waves - circles
• Small loops for cake decoration
• Large waves for showpieces
• Rock, moss, or sand bottom
• Decorations on shiny foil to be cut out
• Wood
• Fans and band-shaped cake rims on heated sheet

Stencils - Patterns - Print Techniques

• Decorating with stencils
• Burning stencils
• Stencil to impress
• Basic stencils
• Self-made foil for imprints
• Impression of complex drawings
• Screen printing technique

Index

More books by Jean-Pierre Wybauw from C.H.I.P.S.:
Fine Chocolates—Great Experience
Fine Chocolates 2—Great Ganache Experience
Chocolate without Borders

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