Adding Cocoa Leaves to "Death By Chocolate" Cake Mix

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Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you how to make chocolate leaves to go with our chocolate roses. This is not the same chocolate paste that we're making the chocolate roses out of. It's simply melted chocolate chips or melted chocolate bars, a nice semi-sweet melted chocolate. I've melted chocolate or a semi-sweet chocolate bar over a double boiler. What you do is you paint it right onto the back of a real leaf, and we'll chill it, and then we'll peel the leaf off of the chocolate. It's important when you choose your leaves not to use anything that might be toxic, something with either a white juice in it or hairy leaves you want to stay away from. Good leaves to use are citrus leaves or ivy leaves. This is a leaf from a blackberry bush. Rose leaves are also good to use. We'll just take the melted chocolate and spread it onto the back of the leaf. That was little too much. You just spread it over there in a pretty thick layer. A smaller knife it better than the spoon. Don't go over the edge or you'll have difficulty removing the leaf from the chocolate. Just lay that on the foil. Let's do another one. Use the back of the leaf because the back of the leaf has the very nice veins and the indentations that you want to see. Some leaves if you look at them have a lot of hair or fuzz on the back, so you want to avoid those types of leaves. Just spread that pretty thick. Not in a thin layer, but very thick and as close to the edge as possible without going over the edge. I just sort of drag the leaf along to take off any of the excess chocolate on the edges. Let's do another one. The chocolate is pretty loose, but you just sort of glop it on there. If you can see how thickly I'm doing that. Right out to the end. Spread it on there right to the edge without going over and then just sort of drag it along. It's a little bit messy, but those will work really nice. We'll put that into the refrigerator and wait for it to cool. Then I'll show you how to peel the leaf off of the chocolate. Let me show you how to peel the leaf off of the chocolate. You want your hands to be cool and not too hot or you might melt the chocolate again. Just peel that way. This leaf's stuck a little. Just take the little bits off. Just peel that away. Take off any bits that are left. Here's another one. This one the chocolate went over the edge. It may be a little more difficult to peel. It's a good idea when you're making these to make more than you need. In that way if you wreck a few that's fine. There are our chocolate leaves. This has still a little bit too many little green bits in it.

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