Ann Reardon

How to Make a Chocolate Flower

 
how to make a chocolate flower
 
Chocolate Flowers are a beautiful addition to any cake and even though they look complicated they are reasonably easy to make.

Watch the chocolate flower video below for a step by step tutorial.


How to temper chocolate and what chocolate to use for chocolate decorations

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  1. Thank `s GOD I found such amazing person .

  2. This is absolutely amazing, I appreciate you for sharing your creative ideas and information. Your flowers are just too beautiful!

  3. Hi Ann,

    1st of all thank you so much cz sharing this beautiful video, I wish to give it a try, but here’s some questions I wish to ask, after I made the pedal on the baking paper, I need to Put in inside the fridge to let it set right? How long I should leave it inside then?
    Thanks.

    • Hi moon, that depends on if you are using real (contains cocoa butter) or fake chocolate (contains vegetable oil). If using real let it set at room temp then refrigeraate to get really firm. If using fake then fridge immediately is fine it should only take about 5 minutes to firm up because it is so thin

  4. Thanks for sharing this. Beautiful work!

  5. Hi Ann,

    I first want to thank you for teaching me how to make macarons!!!

    I also wanted to say thanks for the tutorials. You do a wonderful job .
    These flowers seem so simple to do and yet are so elegant. That’s exactly how I like to bake and present desserts. Thanks again for all your great, hard work.

    • Thanks for saying thanks Dee, glad you like the blog 🙂

  6. Ann,
    Thank you so much for posting this! I stumbled upon your videos on youtube one day and thought this would be a great idea for my friend’s birthday (which was yesterday). I think I did something wrong in the temper process and I also happen to have a kitchen that holds a lot of heat when I bake. Therefore, the flowers didn’t turn out exactly how I would’ve liked (like yours) BUT I found a way to salvage them! 🙂 I look forward to trying out your other projects (and definitely re-trying these flowers)! Thanks again.
    ~Kendra

    • Hi Kendra, I think it looks beautiful. If you are having trouble tempering you could always try the ‘fake’ chocolate which does not contain cocoa butter, like candy melts.

  7. This is the cake I’d made for my mom 🙂 I used black chocolate melts, and decided to put those white pearl sprinkles in the middle of them. They look great!

    • You have a lucky mum Sam I bet she loved it. Great job on the flowers, I like the pearl sprinkles in the centre, nice touch.

  8. Hey Ann,

    Thanks for sharing this great idea. I just used them on the fly yesterday to put on your Triple-Choc Cheesecake (which is also great by the way, love the glaze) for my grandmother’s birthday. I modified the flowers a little bit, as I didn’t really like this “blob” the chocolate forms in the centre: I waited for the chocolate to cool down a little and then poked it with a toothpick to form small spikes which looked like stamens.

    Keep up the good work!

  9. I love all your videos. You are awe sum. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

    • I’m imreesspd you should think of something like that

  10. Wow thats amazing, me and my mum are entering a contest and that would be great. THANKS!!!!

    • Let me know how your contest goes : )

  11. awesome

  12. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.

  13. Thanks so much for these directions! I tried it today and love how it turned out!

    • Hu Sam, That is absolutely beautiful. love it 🙂

  14. Hello,
    I was wondering can you pre make the flowers and feathers a head of time? If so how long ahead of time? How long can
    It keep in the fridge?

    Thankyou

    • Hi Idaline, yes you can just store them in an airtight container in the fridge, I like to put baking paper between them. They will keep for a long time just like normal chocolate.

  15. Anne,
    That was beautiful …. but how is the chocolate mixture made to do the flowers? I ‘d like to try that. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

  16. In the video , it looks like there is more chocolate left on the bottom baking paper. You lifted the top paper that had the chocolate on itto use that for the petals, right? But wasn’t there some chocolate on the bottom paper also? What happens to that? Elegant, beautiful and easy. Thank you!

    • Hi Meg, yes you use that for petals too, exactly the same as for the top sheet

  17. That is beautiful. Thank you.I will try next time,hope it will come as good as yours

  18. Hey Ann ! Your techniques changed the way I see chocolate thanks!

  19. That is so amazingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I Can’t wait to try it.

  20. this if fantastic and so simply thank you very much for sharing. It so good to have this training for free too, so many people just want to charge in the world today and its so refreshing that someone just wants to give. Bless you

    • Sorry can’t figure out how to send replies anymore as google has done something to the reply thingy. Thanks you Ann for all your help. Ld.

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