Cocoa painting on fondant

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Comment by Kathy Kmonk on November 12, 2010 at 10:53am

This is fantastic. Great job.

Comment by Bettina Dwyer on November 7, 2010 at 9:32pm

I made some practice plaques from pastillage and practiced and fiddled - where I discovered that you need a really thin brush.

This plaque was my very first attempt at painting with cocoa. The image is one I found on Deviant art when I was googling cocoa painting.

Comment by Linda's Cakes on November 7, 2010 at 8:37pm

I have never seen this done and am impressed. I have to go out and buy what I did to get started practicing on this..Thank you so much for sharing this info with me:)

Comment by Bettina Dwyer on November 7, 2010 at 8:30pm

Hi Linda,
cocoa painting is done by mixing cocoa powder with cocoa butter (although I couldn't get my hands on cocoa butter so I used melted copha - a white shortening in Australia that is solid at room temperature). Basically you melt a little cocoa butter and mix different amounts of cocoa powder into it to get different shades. You can also use some melted chocolate to do the darker lines. I did my painting freehand, but you can use transfer paper (assuming you're not going to eat the decoration) or use a stylus to prick or scratch your design onto your surface.
There is a great video tutorial on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pw1D0uXEVw
Make sure you have REALLY fine brushes or your lines will look clumsy and unprofessional. I used a 10 X 0 brush and one that I cut down to a few long bristles. Hope this helped. : )

Comment by Linda's Cakes on November 7, 2010 at 8:10pm

Oh my word, I love this! Please share your secret on how you go about painting this..Wow!!!