Jacques Torres Makes Chocolate Holiday Treats

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I can show you how decorate one

of those Christmas chocolates.

Before molding, take a little bit of chocolates.

Just like that, on the tip of a spatula,

and in less than one minute, the chocolate going

to start crystallizing.

That show us that the chocolate is ready to be molded.

So, I'm going to start my molding.

I'm going to take a parchment paper and shape a paper cone.

You can always use a disposable piping bag.

It's easier then you don't have to make it yourself.

Never fill the paper too much,

otherwise you can not close it.

I'm going to cut the tip a little bit more.

And then, I'm going pour chocolate inside the mold.

So when everything is molded, take your mold

and tap it on the table.

If it's a little bit less, it's fine, too much is no good.

Now I'm going to put that in the fridge

and do the same thing with dark chocolates.

This is a Santa Claus.

And I have to paint his beard in dark or white.

I'm going to use a brush, and I'm going to put some

of the chocolate into his beard and his mustache.

If you do what I just did, and put a little bit

of chocolate where it doesn't belong, don't worry,

with a little towel, or your finger,

you can always wipe it off.

Perhaps the ring around his hat.

In fact, you can do whatever you like,

as long as your Santa Claus look good.

And we're going to look at that side.

So this is the front, I have to paint the back now.

Okay, how that look like?

That look good.

The chocolate has to set a little bit before you put

the dark chocolate, otherwise the color

are going to bleed together.

To mold over the white chocolates, I'm just going

to pour some dark chocolates.

And be careful the dark chocolates go everywhere,

in all crevices of the mold.

And then, what you do, you just reverse the mold,

just like that, and put it over the rack.

So the chocolate is dripping to the sheet pan.

And then I'm going to put that into

the fridge for a few minutes.

And I'm going to put a second coat of chocolates.

You want to make them pretty thick,

you don't want them to break.

Merci, Irina.

So those are the tree that we molded earlier.

Here, it's sticking a little bit on the middle,

so I just have to push it.

Okay, so we have one set here.

And now, I have the two set done, so I am going

to put those two together here.

So first, I'm just going to position it

and then I will stick it.

And we're going to start that.

Okay, chocolate here and here, and we put

that here, and that here.

We put little dots of chocolates around.

Not too much, otherwise it going to be visible.

I am afraid that, for Christmas, I'm going

to have to do a lot of that.

So if you have to move things,

do it before the chocolate sets, because when

the chocolate sets, that's it.

Okay, now let's work on the Santa.

It's ready, so what we do now, we put

the mold upside down, and we twist the mold.

This is the secret weapon.

I'm going to warm up my table.

If you are using a wooden table, don't do that.

If you don't own one of those things,

you can perhaps put a tray in the oven, or over the stove.

So I just warm up a little piece of the table,

and now I'm going to put the Santa over it.

Do the other side.

Then, put it together.

Clean the side.

Those two little Christmas tree now, are ready

to be wrapped, or ready to be put

on your table, or ready to be eaten.

And, we have a Santa next to our trees.