How to Make Modeling Chocolate (with Recipes)

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Published 2013-10-05
Not a fondant fan? Well then, you're in the right place! Here, I show two simple one-bowl recipes for making semisweet and white modeling chocolate (aka chocolate dough). Chocolate dough is a a very tasty, Tootsie Roll-like medium for cake and cookie embellishments such as flowers, ribbons, and bows.

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RELATED LINKS:
Semisweet Modeling Chocolate tutorial: www.juliausher.com/semisweet_modeling_chocolate
White Modeling Chocolate tutorial: www.juliausher.com/white_modeling_chocolate
How to Make Ribbon Decorations video:    • How to Make Ribbon Decorations Using ...  

NOTES ABOUT CHOCOLATE:
This recipe was formulated for use with real chocolate. I prefer to use high-grade chocolate brands, such as Valrhona, Callebaut, or Guittard, for optimal chocolate flavor. Candy melts or coating or compound chocolates (that have palm or other oil substitutes for the cocoa butter in real chocolate) can be used as well, but they will set much more quickly (typically in 2 to 3 hours) and firmly. I do not knead any oil out of the dough when working with candy melts (as I sometimes do in working with real white chocolate). Instead, I just mix the dough per this recipe, let it sit for 1 to 2 hours, and then work it through a pasta machine's finest setting to get it perfectly smooth before allowing it to fully set.

NOTES ABOUT COLORING WHITE MODELING CHOCOLATE:
I usually add oil-based (aka "candy") coloring to the melted chocolate; then stir in the corn syrup as directed in the recipe. Do not use water-based coloring, as it can overly seize the chocolate. You can also knead in coloring after the dough has set, but this approach takes more time - and is harder work!

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Video by: Kat Touschner, katcory.wordpress.com/
Music by: Kevin MacLeod, www.incompetech.com/

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All Comments (21)
  • Hello, may i use glucose please, corn syrup is not available in my country. what would be the amount then?
  • @empathyelephant
    Honored, I'm amazed how simply but again fully dedicated are all of Your video lessons. We all like short lessons, as a young mom I sure do :) but You, I'm watching without breathing, every single time. You make me remember the important things! Beautiful... Thank You n God bless.
  • @gohannitchi
    i just love how you teach your tutorials very descriptive
  • thank you - you have answered many of my questions and inspired me to give it a try!
  • @CambriaSantiago
    I would love to see a video of how many different flower's you can design by using chocolate. May I add, you have an awesome talent! You've inspired me to create visually beautiful desserts.
  • Thank you very much Julia, you've been most helpful indeed. I will try it out and let you know my findings.
  • Thank you sooo much for making this how to video! I just tried making modeling chocolate yesterday with white chocolate and I thought something was wrong when all the "butter substance" started coming out and I was Soo confused! Glad I did what I did! It came out perfect thank you!!!
  • @suzetteaguayo819
    What an Awesome tutorial! I cannot wait to try this recipe ;) All your videos are AMAZING!! huge Thank you! =D
  • @pilycebrian
    Muchísimas gracias por la clase!!! Magnífica explicación de la técnica a realizar con ambos tipos de chocolate. La felicito es usted excelente!. Saludos desde Caracas- Venezuela.
  • @InaZeaAnaZazi
    It's very interesting to see this white chocolate dough. Usually, recipes (or video tutorials as the case may be) tell you to fold the syrup into the white chocolate until you don't see anymore steaking, because working it more will make the cocoa butter ooze out. Now, because Corn Syrup isn't available where I live, I used golden syrup. With dark chocolate it worked really well, my dough came out very nicely, but the white chocolate? I tried this about 4 times and I gotta say that folding it until I don't have any more streaking is a great way to make the modelling chocolate ooze cocoa butter ... so this way, where you work the cocoa butter out of the dough on purpose is a great silver lining. Maybe I'll try this way tomorrow. Thank you for the tutorial!
  • @bfamily4004
    hi all, pls don't waste her time asking some stupid questions which is clearly explained already in video. thanks julia! u r the great!!
  • @neela7030
    Thanks for the nice demo! Just a quick tip. If you initialize the scale after keeping the bowl of melted chocolate on it, then you can pour corn syrup until the scale reads 3.5 ounces. That way you don't need to do any additions in your head. Hope this makes sense. Thanks Julia for your excellent work.
  • @tuandoole9651
    Thanks Juliamusher For sharing your great chocolate molding recipe 😋 it's amazing
  • @danaattieh8290
    You are a lifesaver! I had watched many videos on modelling chocolate and it seemed easy enough but i made sure to check your channel before i actually did it just as a reference. Anyway so as a trial i bought a cheap white chocolate (we dont have candy melts in my country) and because it was cheap i assumed it was a compound white chocolate.. and after mixing a lot of oil coated the beautiful white dough.. had i not watched your video, i would have freaked out and thought it went wrong.. but.. i said well, it seems to be cheap but real white chocolate not compound, so i did what u did, removed the spatula, took it between my hands and kneaded it gently and with a bit of paper towels kept drying my hands (it sticks like crazy to the chocolate so i didnt dare) until i felt the "oil" became a bit less i wrapped it up. So honestly thank you no other video mentions this.. they do ask for compound chocolate in their recipes, but for beginners like me we might make the mistake to assume that we have compound chocolate
  • @coffebug
    Thanks for the vid cleared up an issue I thought I had with trying to make white choc dough , Thought I had messed up when all the oily stuff came out glad to know it's ment to. made roses out of it they looked great .