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Chocolate-Painting Tutorial
Published: 2007-09-22 19:39:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 87277; 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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It's hard to make it just right.But this does work really well for batter like in white chocolate rainbow brownies or cake.
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Thank you! If you do use it, I'd love to see what you make.
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Okay! I'll definitely show you!
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I look forward to seeing it.
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Very nice tutorial!
However, 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. [link]
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.
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Oh, I've never come across that stuff - I don't think it's available in the UK, or only online. Also, I don't have a microwave at my house.
If you don't mind, I will add this to the list of suggestions and tips at the bottom of the Artist Comments for now, and when I redo the tutorial (just correcting some mistakes, nothing major) I'll mention it again there.
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I think you can also buy generic brands at the grocery store, but sure I'd love it if you added it as a tip.
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Every year for my friend's birthday, I make something for her, and this year I'm all out of ideas - but I am SO going to do this. thanks a bunch for the tut, it's pretty cool. Just in time, too!
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Aww, that's great to hear - I'm sure she'll love it! If you take photos, I'd love to see what you make.
And don't thank me for the timing, thank the lovely people who suggested and featured me, as the tutorial's been up for a few years - I'm just glad that I've been able to help people out.
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Honey-sempai!!! ON CAKE!!!!
Awesome! Congratulations on the Daily Deviation!!!
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omgosh!!! it's made out of chocolate 
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So interesting! Maybe someday I'll try doing a cake and decorate it using your turorial(or I could just asky my mom to do it for me instead 
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You're welcome! 
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Hot damn, I need to try this now.
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What a great idea, I definitely have to try it for a gift ^^
Thanks for this wonderful contribution!
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That's great to hear! If you use it, I'd love to see what you make.
And I'm just glad to have been of service.
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That is truly amazing O.O Thank you so much for posting this! I'm definitely gonna do this some day! You're a hero!
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Aww, thank you! I'm glad to have been of help. If you do use it, I'd love to see what you make!
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This is amazing! 0: I'll totally do this if I don't blow up the oven making easy bake brownies!
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I've always wanted to do something like this! Great tutorial!
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Aww, I'm glad to have been of help.
BTW, you icon is adorable.
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I'll be sure to tell you when I do!
And thank you!
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I look forward to seeing it.
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This seems innovative to me yet I can't help but feel like this is standard practice for cake decorating
I feel stupid 
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My mum tells me that this is an accepted way of transferring the design for professionals, but I don't really know about that. 
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This was amazingly helpful and a great idea! I'm definitely doing this sort of thing for my friend's next birthday!
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Aww, I'm glad to have been of help. If you do use it, I'd love to see what you make!
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You just gave me inspiration for my friend's birthday!!! (She, like me, LOVES anime and manga) Thank you so much for making this!!! Although, I could never draw anything as well as that <3
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Don't tell anyone, but I haven't done any of my cakes from my original pictures - they're all from screen-shots!
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It's okay!!! Sure thing
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You could try printing a picture off of the internet and skip straight to step 8 of the tutorial. Just remember where your different cake colors are. 
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