my first modeling chocolate characters.............

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Permalink Reply by Alicia Rodney-Valentine on August 15, 2012 at 10:31pm

Stick them in the fridge then work fast. Thats what I can only think of

Permalink Reply by Jen Montalto on August 16, 2012 at 12:45am

Make a ball of gumpaste on a toothpick & let it dry/harden or stick a toothpick into a gumball. cover the ball with your modeling chocolate and set in a piece of foam. handle as little as possible and sculpt mostly with your tools. 30-60 seconds in the freezer (no more or you can get stickiness from condensation) to firm up is helpful. Also, if you have that canned air you use for blowing the dust out of keybords, you can turn it upside down and give the head a quick blast. if you are releasing a lot of oil from your modeling chocolate, dust lightly with corn starch. 

Permalink Reply by Aronna Sevan on August 16, 2012 at 1:05pm

thank you! do you have a good recipe for gumpaste? I don't know how to do gumpaste yet.

Jen Montalto said:

Make a ball of gumpaste on a toothpick & let it dry/harden or stick a toothpick into a gumball. cover the ball with your modeling chocolate and set in a piece of foam. handle as little as possible and sculpt mostly with your tools. 30-60 seconds in the freezer (no more or you can get stickiness from condensation) to firm up is helpful. Also, if you have that canned air you use for blowing the dust out of keybords, you can turn it upside down and give the head a quick blast. if you are releasing a lot of oil from your modeling chocolate, dust lightly with corn starch. 

Permalink Reply by Aronna Sevan on August 16, 2012 at 1:13pm

Here's my next one: