Chocolate Ice Sculpture

When I saw CRAFT's post on the Del Posto "Chocolate Tree," I knew I had to try it.  

It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, to tell the truth, but I did get some interesting results, and it was a lot of fun.

My sculptures turned out looking more like coral, so I decided to decorate them accordingly!

First, you'll want to get your chocolate into temper for pouring.

This is easy: just follow this tutorial!

I used both milk and dark chocolate for this sculpture.

I poured one batch of chocolate into ice packed into an ice bucket.

The chocolate did not flow very deeply into the ice, but did provide me with a nice base for my other pieces. 

The next thing I tried was pouring the ice more loosely into my sink.

I then poured in the tempered chocolate and mixed it around with the ice.

Again, not at all like what they did in the video, but still produced some neat shapes.

I stacked my various pieces into interesting shapes. 

Once I decided it looked more like coral than a tree, I went about decorating it with candy to look like seaweed and fishes.

The shadows in the picture go a long way to help describe the texture of the finished sculpture.


This was a lot of fun, and if you try it, be sure to post your results too!