Chocolate Easter Eggs with Edible Gold Leaf - a Tutorial

I love to play with my food!!

I love to play with chocolate!!!

I love to create beautiful food!!!!

Ok, so you know me by now.  Food is one of 

my favorite artistic palettes, and so today

I am going to do a tutorial on how to add

edible gold leaf to your foods - chocolates, cakes,

fondants, etc.  

You have seen me adding gold leaf to

French Macarons lately, so I thought I

would show you how to add gold leaf to

any of your foods. 

 A little goes a long

way, so even though real, edible 23 K

gold leaf is rather expensive, you can 

add a lot of wow, for just a little bit of money.

I started with my freshly molded chocolate

eggs.  You could even do this on chocolates

that you bought - just to make them more

spectacular.

Edible 23 K gold leaf comes on pages like this. 

I ordered mine on Amazon.  Make sure you buy

EDIBLE gold leaf, not just the craft

gold leaf at the craft store!  I got a large pack,

but you can buy much smaller.  It comes in sheets

between protective tissue paper, like pictured above.

It is delicate,

so you don't want to touch it with your hands.

Place a little piping gel on a surface, and use

a soft brush to apply the gel where you want

the gold to adhere.  On some of the chocolate

eggs I brushed a small amount, and on a few

I covered the whole egg.  

I just used a tube of sparkle piping gel found

in the cake decorating section.

Wipe the brush clean on a paper towel or the

back of your hand.  There will be a little left on

the brush so that when you touch it to the gold

it will pick it up.  Carefully touch and lift the

gold.  

Use the tissue paper liners to help control

how much gold you pick up at a time, by 

closing the booklet a little to hold the leaf

down.

 Touch the gold to the area of the chocolate

that you have put piping gel on.  Lift

the brush.  Pat down if necessary.

You are going for a rustic look,

so don't worry about how perfect it is.

Add as much as you like, adding another

piece of leaf if you prefer to get the

desired effect.

For the egg that was fully covered, I laid the

sheet of gold on top of the egg painted with piping

gel, using the tissue paper liners to handle the page of gold.  

Use a dry brush to pat it down.  

I also used a little piping gel to attach some

candied violets.  

I decided to add a little interest to my

glitzy chocolate Easter Eggs by painting

some with piping gel and then sprinkling

them with Disco Dust (also online!)

With a little gold and purple,

these eggs are fit for royalty!

Any Easter Bunny would be proud

to deliver these Easter Eggs.  It reminds

me of my favorite Easter Bunny story,

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes.

Don't these look like Easter Eggs

for someone special?  Maybe that

someone special is you!!  They were

so easy and fun to make.

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