Skill level: Advanced
Ever wanted to learn how to create a free-standing edible showpiece made from just chocolate? Liz Marek breaks down how to create an enormous chocolate ant in this exciting tutorial.
In this course, you will learn how to create a giant ant featured in Liz's episode on Disney's Foodtastic series streaming on Disney+ made from tempered chocolate. Learn two different ways to make robot coupe, a moldable, chocolate medium that can be used like modeling chocolate. You will learn how to airbrush onto chocolate, something that can be very difficult to do with the oil-based nature of chocolate.
You will learn how to create the ant facial details, the antennae and eyes, along with the wings made from edible materials.
There's a lot to cover in this video, so let's get our tools together, and let's get started.
2:25:30 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to create an enormous ant showpiece made from tempered chocolate
- Learn how to make two different kinds of robot coupe
- How to make edible giant wings and how to airbrush with cocoa butter
Tutorial Chapters
- Scaling the ant
- Tempering the chocolate
- Pouring the chocolate
- Making wings from templates
- Making wings from templates
- Making sheet gelatin
- Pouring the wings
- Making the wings
- Putting the molded pieces together
- Shaping the body
- Connecting the body pieces
- Building up the body Pt. 1
- Smoothing down the chocolate
- Building up the body Pt. 2
- Smoothing the body Pt. 2
- Shining the body Pt. 1
- Making the legs Pt. 1
- How to make robot coupe
- Building the legs Pt. 2
- Cutting out the wings
- Painting the wings
- Building up the legs
- Smoothing the legs
- Shining the legs
- Building the body Pt. 3
- Setting up the airbrushing equipment
- Tempering the cocoa butter
- Painting the ant
- Adding the eyes
- Shining the ant Pt. 1
- Painting the ant Pt. 2
- Glossing the cocoa butter
- Shining the ant Pt. 3
- Putting it all together
- Finishing touches
