How to Make Chocolate Curls

This easy tutorial teaches you how to make chocolate curls. Perfect to decorate a cake, cheesecake, or other desserts, you will love how easy these fancy decorations are! 

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Ingredients

You only need two simple ingredients to make chocolate curls.

• Good Quality Chocolate. You'll want to finely chop it or use high-quality chocolate callets. My favorite is Callebaut Chocolate Callets.
• Butter or Coconut Oil. This fat helps the chocolate curl easier and stay shiny.

Instructions

In a heat-proof bowl add the chopped chocolate and butter. There are two ways to melt it, but whichever way you go be careful as once chocolate burns you cannot go back.

You can either microwave it on 50% power in 15-second increments, mixing in between, when you think it has one more increment it is actually probably done and you just need to mix it for a minute or two and let the residual heat completely melt it. 

Or you can melt the chocolate in a bain-marie, place a pot filled with a little water over low-medium heat with a larger heatproof bowl on top (the bowl should not be touching the water). Add chocolate and butter, stirring occasionally. You are letting the steam from the water melt the chocolate slowly to prevent burning. 

Once completely melted pour the chocolate on the back of a clean metal baking sheet. Use an angled spatula to spread the chocolate into a thin layer, but not paper-thin.

Place the pan in the fridge for 10 minutes or so. Then take the pan out and use the back of a metal spatula to gently push the chocolate and roll it into a curl.

If the chocolate is too soft it will smudge together if it is too cold it won't roll into a chocolate curl it will shave off. So it's best to just test a piece or two. Depending on how cold/ and how full your fridge is your chocolate may take longer or shorter to firm up properly. 

Place the chocolate curls in a wax-lined container and stick in the fridge or freezer immediately to prevent the curls from sticking together and melting down. 

Store in the fridge for up to one week.

How to freeze

You can definitely store these in the freezer or refrigerator a few days before using. I place them in a wax lined sealed container to keep fresh.

Can you double

You can totally double this recipe to make tons of chocolate curls. You just need to use two baking sheets, you need the chocolate to be the right thickness, too thick and they won't curl.

Recipes to use these on

Chocolate curls make just about anything feel more fancy some of my favorite ways to use them are:

My chocolate Guinness cake recipe is delicious and chocolate curls would be a fabulous addition!

Adding a curl on top of this chocolate cheesecake would make it even more gorgeous!

Or on top of these outrageous kiss of death chocolate cupcakes my friend Hayley makes!!

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