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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 awesome
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I approve of your use of Belgian choco!
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True that, the Belgian stuff is not cheap.
And I know it, because I live in Belgium, and I'm an addict to the stuff... OTL
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Well, the Belgian cooking chocolate isn't usually terrifically expensive, sometimes it just isn't available. I think they're usually scams to make us pay more for it in the UK.
Oh wow! I visited Bruges a few years ago, and I bought a bag of huge hunks of chocolate. It was so good. So, so good. Hopefully I'll be going back next summer!
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Hah, now we trapped you with the chocolate; so you're bound to come back! XD
Though I don't live in Bruges, I'm more towards the centrum, in Brussels. 
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Mm-hmm! There's also a lovely Early Music Festival that we'd like to catch.
Well, the Eurostar stops off at Brussels, and then we have to get another train to Bruges.
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It depends on which one you're talking about, I might be there.^^
And to be honest, if you're here for the beauty of Belgium, don't bother stopping in Brussels. There are pretty buildings in it, but that's just the very centre of it. Bruges is ten times better (or any other town for that matter).
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I don't know, sorry - last time we were there we stumbled on it by chance.
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Simple, but something I wouldn't really think of and will deifinitely use! Thanks for the clear tutorial
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I'm glad to have helped! If you do use it, I'd love to see what you make.
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Yeah - I'll be sure to link you up and drop you a message if I do ^_^
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I'm looking forward to it.
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I'm totally gonna use this technique and make a Master Chief cake for my husband. :3
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Aww, that's so cool! If you take a photo of it, I'd love to see the final result.
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Thanks! My mum taught me how to do it, and then I made the tutorial to share it with everyone else.
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Awesome! Its really well done!
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Funny maybe, but it works!
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Will definately try this out the next holiday or birthday I get the chance to, might just go and make a cake right now
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will do, but I'm pretty new to dA so I wouldn't know how to send it to you
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Well, if you go to my profile page by clicking on my name there should be a "
If there's anything else you're not sure about, the FAQ's are usually a good place to start, but if there's anything you don't get you can try asking me, I've been around for a while now.
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thanks a ton again, definately gonna read the FAQ's and will send you the pictures of the cake if I ever make it
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You're welcome, and I look forward to seeing them!
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I love you, I finally know what to get people as birthday presents!!
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Aww, glad to be of help. If you use it, I'd love to see any photos you take.
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I shall be sure to send you some when I use it!
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I look forward to seeing them.
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This is a great tutorial! I'm glad you went into the level of detail you did with describing the design steps. Totally adding this to my List of Things I Want to Do If I Ever Find Time XD
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Thank you - I'm glad to have been of help.
Pattern Making Pt1
Pattern Making Pt2
Pattern Making Pt3
Pattern Making Pt4
goes into much more detail about the design process, particularly with regards to taking a pre-existing image from the internet and turning it into a pattern. I hope that's of use to you!
And my List is full of stuff. I totally empathise.
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Wheeee, thanks for the links ^.^
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You're welcome - I only wish I had gotten off my backside and finished editing and uploading the rest of the tutorial, which goes through the whole process.
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It seems a shame to eat it after all that work.
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Yeah... But it's still worth eating it. Even if I get a few comments a month with sexual innuendo.
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AMAZING!!!!!
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I've been wondering how to do this! Thanks so much, and congrads on the DD!
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Thanks! I'm glad to have been of help.
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Great idea!!!!!! *ç* And, uh, now I'm hungry! XD
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Ow, sweet!!
I can't wait to try this out ^^
My friend's Bday is coming up next week, I should start gathering chocolate.
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Congratulations on the DD!!
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