Stop Cat From Eating Fake Christmas Tree

And the first one is done! Let's have a croissant













To this week only photos, I'm too tired, tomorrow I put the explanation step by step.

So, let's explain to those who have not ever done it makes a chocolate egg. First
buy good chocolate, the taste you choose it. This is milk chocolate.
photo 1) I put 600 grams of chocolate in the microwave and I melted at 750 ° only half, in fact you can still see whole pieces (with this method, we are sure that the temperature is between 40 ° and 45 °).
photo 2) After thorough mixing the chocolate has all melted (the temperature dropped to 33 ° -34 °) I added Mycryo (cocoa butter and dried micronized) in the ratio 1 / 10 compared to chocolate (In this case I added 6 grams of Mycryo). I mixed well to dissolve and mix well.
picture 3) I waited until the temperature falls to 29 ° in order to use the chocolate
photo 4) I've put 300 g in the mold making and spin I coated the entire interior. This work should last until the chocolate is thickened. If the environment is about 17 ° -18 ° (in fact I was down in the tavern where they almost never turn on the radiator) will take about 15 minutes (it must be colder than that because the chocolate thickens too quickly and would be a part very thick and very thin)
photos 5) The chocolate is gathering
photo 6) At this point I flipped the mold and I expected that the shell fell down. It took about two hours and a few well-aimed tap on the mold.
photo 7) photo 8) phase of the decoration. Previously I had prepared with stars and hearts of chocolate syrup colored with white plastic roses and I stick with a chocolate drop.
picture 9) I put the surprise in the shell! Important step, otherwise you'll have to re-open the egg (it happened to me once ...)
photo 10) Here I made a strip of parchment paper and I brush several times with the tempered chocolate, then when this is a bit 'thickened I wrapped the egg now assembled (I put the tempered chocolate at the edges well leveled and join the half)
with the strip, I waited for the chocolate indurisse and took out the paper. The same thing I did for the bow!
photo 11) the egg is finished! I called "egg funk" because it is a bit 'crazy like my granddaughter to which it is!

Happy Easter!