CHOCOLATE CUPS

CHOCOLATE CUPS AND ICECREAM

Well who doesn’t likes chocolate and if it has ice cream along, oh! Isn’t it heaven ? And these Homemade chocolate cups are one of my favorite secret weapons! Here's a pro tip: everything looks cuter when it's served in a chocolate cup! Just picture this: mini scoops of ice cream in a chocolate cup. This recipe for chocolate cups tells you exactly how to make these delicious, edible containers. Once you learn how easy it is to make edible chocolate cups, you might find yourself making them on a regular basis. Chocolate cups are shockingly simple to make. In fact, making chocolate cups is a fun activity.

So here we have this beautiful chocolate cup to make. Let’s see how:

Ingredients:

1 cup of chocolate compound

A few balloons

Recipe:

1. Start by melting the chocolate compound . Don't use untempered chocolate, because it will get soft at room temperature and your bowls might not hold their shape nicely.
2. Set the melted coating or tempered chocolate aside to cool so that it is no longer warm to the touch.
3. While the chocolate is cooling, clean properly and blow up the balloons to the size you want your bowls to be and tie them. Cover a tray with butter paper or foil.
4. Hold the balloon by the knot on top and slowly dip the bottom of a balloon in the room temperature chocolate. Move gently to acclimatize the balloon to the temperature. Dip it until the chocolate is the depth you want your bowls to be.
5. Gently remove the balloon from the chocolate, and set it carefully on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat until you've dipped all of your balloons.
6. Let the balloons sit at room temperature until the chocolate or coating is entirely set. Once the coating is set, refrigerate the tray briefly to make the chocolate hard (this will make it easier to remove the balloons).
7. To get the balloons out, first press around the sides gently, breaking the seal between the balloon and the chocolate. Then hold a balloon below the knot and gently cut a slit above your fingertips, and control the flow of air as it escapes. Slowly release the air from the balloon, and as you do, the balloon will start coming off from the sides of the bowl. If it pops, peel off a portion of it still stuck to the balloon and pull it away gently.
8. Once all your chocolate bowls have had the balloons removed, fill them with ice cream, mousse, whipped cream, cold dessert soup, or candies.
9. Store chocolate bowls between layers of waxed paper at cool room temperature.

These beautiful glossy bowls are entirely edible, so you can fill them with all of your favorite things, and then once you're done eating what's inside, eat the container, too!

Enjoy and keep showering your love.