Making a Chocolate Heart Box

George Watts: Hey Paul. Paul: Hi, there how are you doing? George Watts: Thanks for inviting us this time of the day. Paul: You’re welcome. When people are going to propose, there are different ways of getting an engagement ring to the fiancée and this is the way to do it. We can make a heart shaped box and decorate about in anyway we like. Personalize it and then we can make a small heart shape chocolate to encase the ring in. This is the chocolate, it’s a lot heavy. It’s about two and a half kilos of chocolate. Those have been melting overnight. So we have everything in a big pan for tempering. So I’m going to do, the tempering process is to get, when you have a really good chocolate and if you break in it, snaps it, shiny and it’s crisp that’s what we want to get back. This is now the structures dissolved and destroyed. We need to get that back to that point where it’s finish to shiny. So stand back. This is what oozing us please, because this is important that we tip out two-thirds of the chocolate onto the marble slab that was a real “ooh”. And here oozing us from people at home. We’re going to spread it now, this is hot, hot chocolate, this melted chocolate and by putting on the marble slab it cools it down, and at the same time I’m going to start mixing it. You put your hand and can feel the warmth coming off. You can feel the heat but that’s not too hot to make anything of so I’m going to do, work around to the marble slab, scraping the chocolate into the center. The marble have stays cold all the time so it can cool the chocolate down. George Watts: The chocolate has an amazing sheen to it. Paul: It does. George Watts: It’s almost like a gloss. Paul: It is well coco butter doesn’t heat chocolate and then we go. Lots of comfort but which is the natural oil from the chocolate and that will fatten the chocolate. And that is the more of rest of that, the shiny and we take a look at this. It is very glossy, very shiny. It doesn’t contain all of not horrible nasty artificial ingredients but it doesn’t mean we have to keep it pure and clean. We don’t spoil it in any way. So now you can see the chocolate got really thick. What I do now when it’s really thick, this is starting to crystallize and get hard. We’re going scoop it and step around this way. Scoop it all back in to the chocolate that’s left in my bath which is warm. So we don’t want is to set here. We want to use it to create our mold. And the warm chocolate I left in the bath will keep this fluid. We’ve mixed the chocolate on the marble slab. We put it back into the container and now we need to check with its template. Now the warm chocolate have left in here is keeping this chocolate really fluid and you can see how smooth and lump free. There shouldn’t be any lumps in the chocolate. All I need to know is to check about the chocolate is tempered. There are two ways, one is to take your finger, touch your bottom lip. George Watts: Okay so why tempered? You mean just sort of— Paul: Where all the crystals are now lying up ready to fill ever it’s slightly warm to firm it. This is our mold. It’s being cleaned with cotton ball. We use organic cotton balls that’s not pretty pure because of the cheap the cotton balls of the chemicals and the bleach and things and I’m going to fill both of our hearts to the top. So now this once it pour in marble snap I filled it completely full now, if we left all that which is to have solid chocolate hearts but at least tap out the air. Do you see the little air bubbles coming up? We’re going to tap. So now we’re going to tip it upside down, all upside and will tap the edge and then tilt it the palette knife across and across again and what you left with is a little flake inside. What you left with is an empty shell. So this is going to the fridge only for about 10 minutes. So this is the minute box. We can elegantly possibly fun to it, put words of fully words I love your or will you marry me, we can do that as well. But we always do once the chocolates, all that the ring is in there takes on my ribbon, and we just lightly tie it. Its always nice to unveil chocolates, especially the chocolate box. This is where the skill is to tie without marking the chocolate and then underneath that we put a little scroll printed with the message from the person asking the person to marry them, and I’ll be positioned it in the box and I think on the few things that could is it I find the most personal and individual “will you marry gift.”