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Chocolate-Painting Tutorial
Published: 2007-09-22 19:39:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 87275; Favourites: 1930; Downloads: 1138
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Minor Edit: I would like to have to thank each and every one of you for each and every
on these cakes. But I do not have the time - I've just started university, and I'm fortunate enough for these to have become extremely popular. I cannot spend all my time clearing out the favourites! So please, accept my heartfelt thanks NOW. They wouldn't be doing so well without you. I wouldn't have the DD without you. So thank you.Now back to my main comments.
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EDIT 6: (I really need to re-do this, don't I?) The video tutorial is finally done, three years late. But done!
Playlist of all videos 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt1: Guidelines 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt2: Preparing Your Image 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt3: Outlines 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt4: Colouring 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 1: Preparing to Transfer 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 2: Image to Cake 
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 3: Dot-to-Dot Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 1: Preparation and Testing Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 2: Painting Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 3: Mixing and Outlines EDIT 3: Given that the main query I get concerns the icing, and that it's a question I can't help much with, I'm very glad that somebody has found a good tutorial on how to make chocolate-fudge icing! SironaSelkie found this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvl7iE… and seems fairly happy with the results. I hope that's helpful.
EDIT 2: Oh my gosh, thank you for the Daily Deviation! I just saw that I had a comment- and fav-spam in my box, started to get suspicious, and went to check the DD list - and there it was! I'm really honoured, and I hope that it's useful to lots of you out there. Many thanks to Nyiana-sama for the suggestion and FantasyStock for the actual DD.
I'm afraid that there is no way I can cope with thanking you all individually for favourites on it right now. But please know that I really appreciate every single one, that I hope you have a use for it, and that I would love to know if you do use it.
My cakes:
lutra-gem.deviantart.com/art/S… :thumb64326962: :thumb97257711: :thumb136122083: lutra-gem.deviantart.com/art/C… :thumb178287360: :thumb256143460: :thumb325692233:
I would LOVE to see any cakes decorated using this technique! If anyone follows the tutorial and you take a photo, if you post a comment here or on the cake, I'll link all of them at the bottom of these comments. Looking forward to seeing them guys!
Whew! That took a long time.
This is the tutorial I made to accompany my birthday cake lutra-gem.deviantart.com/art/C… which so many people liked. I really do love all you guys, and you make me feel a better artist.
Anyway, VERY large file I must point out, I'm going to try and make it so you click the download button to the left of your screen to see it.EDIT: I would like to say thank you hAtObAaKaQuAy for correcting me; the characters on the side are actually katakana, not kanji.
I apologise if anyone thinks that this is in the wrong category, but the only food and drink related tutorial category was in the Non-art gallery, and that pissed me off, as this is art. So I stick it in paintings since it's just painting with a different medium.
I hope that this tutorial is of some use to you, and I apologise for any mistakes I have made in the writing of this; I'm afraid that if I make a mistake I have to type the whole thing out again once I've left the editor, which sucks.
The tutorial (c) me Lutra-Gem
Haninozuka Mitsukuni (c) Bisco Hatori
People who have followed this tutorial:
kaatjemsk.deviantart.com/art/M…
Did (I quote) "Master chief dukin' it out wif the white ranger from the original power rangers....." This gal's bro ate the cake before she could photograph it. So that sucks. But she says that this tutorial DOES work using frosting/icing. She also says to make sure you have the colours you want for it ready made, especially the black.
jesus1st-anime2nd.deviantart.c…
sora-the-explorer.deviantart.c…
theserventofdarkness.deviantar…
megwhiteiii.deviantart.com/art… and megwhiteiii.deviantart.com/art…
gaarasbabe.deviantart.com/art/…
chappiinny.deviantart.com/art/…
dragondreamer93.deviantart.com…
yumesenpai.deviantart.com/art/…
Didn't take a photo, but used this design: media.photobucket.com/image/ri…
sisteroftheflame.deviantart.co…
w-histle.deviantart.com/art/Ch…
fav.me/d31rhvo
4meezy4.deviantart.com/art/gin…
agateczka21.deviantart.com/art…
1: fav.me/d38jc6c 2: tang-gong.deviantart.com/art/A… 3: tang-gong.deviantart.com/art/S… 4. tang-gong.deviantart.com/art/T…
rovaneth.deviantart.com/art/L-…
mailla.deviantart.com/art/Touh…
weisewoelfin.deviantart.com/ar…
zanreo.deviantart.com/art/Cana…
s-h-a-d-o-w-7.deviantart.com/a…
fantasy-dreamermc.deviantart.c…
& sironaselkie.deviantart.com/ar…
misjie.deviantart.com/art/Vita…
:iconhrethenyawe: hrethrenyawe.deviantart.com/ar…
rinkujutsu.deviantart.com/gall…
Abbreviated Tips from people who have used it:
On the Icingyumesenpai : Don't use Glace Royal/Royal Icing because you can't put the pin holes in it and it's hard to work with. It might work if you left it a day to set.On the Coloursicantthinkofaname-09 : Even better than baker's chocolate is Wilton melting chocolates. They're little chocolate discs that you can heat up in the microwave, so you don't need to use boiling water. They taste good and they make a really even consistency. www.deviantart.com/users/outgo… They also make all sorts of bright colored 'chocolates' (these ones taste like vanilla), so you don't even have to stick to chocolatey colors if you don't want to. Absolutley-Delish : White chocolate with food dye makes better colors is what I've found to work better. It's hard to make it just right.But this does work really well for batter like in white chocolate rainbow brownies or cake. YellowDaw : I have one more tip: if you don't have the "colored chocolate" you can also add food coloring to white chocolate to make different colors. I think it might depend on the food coloring. I once colored white chocolate with Wilton's color paste and it turned out fine. I think with chocolate you should use either paste or powder colors -liquid colors might make the chocolate grainy because they contain water. Zanreo : Don't melt more chocolate than you need. You don't actually need that much chocolate(especially if you have a small picture) and it's better to melt more if you need more, than melting more than you need - that's just a waste of good chocolate.
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Then do! I'd love to see what you make.
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oh I'm terribly sorry, I just can't stop myself o.o (it's not really important at all.. especially seen as your cake is amazing 
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I did mention in the Artist Comments that I had been corrected on the kanji/katakana issue. If I ever have the time to redo the tutorial I will make that correction. But I didn't know about the downward line! I worked out the signs by comparing the (horizontal) titles that come up when naming the characters in the anime, so it's not surprising I got that wrong.
I'm glad that you like the cake though - and really, I have no advice other than to make one yourself if you want one!
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It's okay - there's a LOT of text in there, with all the edits and tips I've stuffed in. I've never actually studied Japanese at all, though I used to intend to. Working out what I DID put on the cake consisted of comparing "Haninozuka" and "Morinozuka" to work out which bit was the "nozuka" 
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haha yeah that can be tricky if you've never studied japanese before XD I am studying it at the moment
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Hahah, thanks. I'd had a lot more experience by that point, but I think it would be fair to say that it's my best to date. I'll just have to try to top it this year!
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Nope! My birthday isn't until September so I hadn't given it any thought yet. Now you've asked though... Usually I pick a series that caught my fancy that year and pick my favourite character that has fewest dark clothes (I'm not a fan of dark chocolate). Since I started uni a few weeks after my last birthday the only series I've had time to see are Sherlock and DRRR!! Sherlock I don't think I'd dare to try on a cake (it would end up being John, anyway) and... DRRR!! has lots of fantastic characters... who wear black or have black hair. I guess I could do Shizuo or Kida, but Shizuo has his black bartender's uniform, and much as I like Kida he's not my favourite. I could make my biannual return to FMA, I guess. Oh, maybe I could do Stephanie Brown as a Robin rather than Batgirl... That could be fun, actually. But no, at this stage I'm not making any decisions!
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Hmm... That might work. And it looks interesting! I'll add it to the list of things to check out whenever I have time. -_-;;
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haha XD list getting long? XD my list has become so lengty it's depressing -_-' faaainally finished D.Grey-man though XD (good for meeee xD ignoring studies and watching anime...... -.-... but when you're studyin' japanese it's not the worst thing to watch anime XD (or so I keep telling myself..)
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The list has always been far too long. I have a decent net connection in my room at uni, but a lot of sites are blocked and I don't have time anyway. Until very recently the connection at home was terrible too, so it wasn't practical for me to watch or read anything of great length. Plus, I'd prefer to get hold of things legally, where possible. I might take out a subscription to CrunchyRoll over the summer and watch some stuff.
And yeah, I guess there's some reason in that. 
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haha totally know what you mean xD I used to have absolutely terrible connection at home O.O (seriously, it took from 1 to 2 hours to stream ONE episode of naruto XD was the time I had just discovered anime, and was hooked from the first second, so of course I waited for HOURS and HOURS loading XD) stupid schooool blocking sites like that XD but yeey
And seriously O.O sounds like you have it busy <:c one must always have time for muuusiiiic O.O XD
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Of course I have it busy! I'm in university and I want to get a good degree out of it! And by its nature, that means playing/singing in ensembles (six for me at the moment), individual practice, composition, music theory, essays, history... Keeps me out of mischief. 
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sounds busy.... sorry I didn't answer yesterday... my dog died, and I'm still trying to figure out how to stop crying...
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Oh, don't be sorry! I'm sorry your dog died, and right now I really empathise - I got some bad news about a friend from my old school dying too, yesterday.
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I'm glad... I hope you come to terms with it soon.
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thank you <:3 think it'll be a while though... We all loved that dog so much... he was such a good dog
This tutorial is so awesome! Thanks sooo much. I'm definitely gonna be making my own birthday cake this April
Quick question: How do you get the icing so smooth? (I'll probably use the fudge icing recipe that ~SironaSelkie used)
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Thanks! I'm glad to be of help. Um... I don't handle the icing myself (my mum prepares the cake) so I'm not sure I can offer any help on that. Sorry! (Thank you for the favourites, by the way. 
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It's okay, I found a youtube tutorial on how to make a smooth cake
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Oh great! I don't suppose you could link me to it if it works for you? I like to be able to share any useful tips and tricks for it, and it's a question I've been asked a few times.
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Thanks! And thanks for the favourite too.
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Very cool. This seems like it would be much easier to do as a frozen buttercream transfer, then then it could also be in color without all being white chocolate. But then it wouldn't be chocolate at all 
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No no, this is a totally different technique. You don't need to do the pin pricks because you don't do it directly on the cake. You take the pic you want and lay wax paper over it (so you can still see the image) and then pipe the outline in black icing and then pipe and fill in all the color. Then freeze it, and then press it onto your cake (icing down) and peel off the wax paper. Here is a link to a tutorial: [link]
I bet you could do this with chocolate painting too, you would just have to remember to bottom layers will end up as the top when you finish.
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Oh, I see what you mean! I genuinely don't know how well it would work for chocolate - I'd actually expect the chocolate to snap, but that's just me... But regardless of that point, from my own experience I think I would find the working-backwards element hard, as I genuinely do paint with the chocolate - mixing and layering and everything. If I did it backwards there'd be almost no room for mistakes. Thank you very much for showing me this, though.
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Haha, yeah chocolate is a little less forgiving than buttercream. But if you don't chill it solid it would still be pliable to bend without snapping. And I can see how the painting aspect would be really tough with the transfer technique. I'm not that great at painting, so the "pipe-by-numbers" is a little more my speed
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what kind of frosting did you use to ice the cake before designing it
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As I mention in the Artist's Comments, I use chocolate-fudge icing, but I don't know how to make it myself as my mum makes the cake, I do the decoration. However, someone very kindly linked me to a tutorial she used on making it: [link] Otherwise, any other icing/frosting that has a firm set should work. I think there are some other tips and suggestions from people in the Artist's Comments, including on the use of dyes for the chocolate.
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Very interesting. Thx for your Tutorial ♥
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You're welcome! I'm glad to be of help.
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my friend ~ChromaticRose and I made a cake with Riza Hawkeye on it thanks to your tutorial
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Thanks a lot for showing me, it looks awesome! I've added it to the list of cakes.
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Well my b-day party is this friday. I might as well use this tutorial and decorate this with a maplestory character (friends are maplestory fans) Well....Wish me luck on this cake! >.<
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Oh wow! I do indeed wish you all the very best of luck for the cake, and I hope that you have a fantastic birthday.
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Ha, wow this looks fun. I'll definitely have to try this sometime!! Thanks for sharing!
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It can be hard work, but it's usually worth the results.
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