Nemo Chocolate Transfer

Yes, I went a little crazy today! :o) It's pajama day so I had some extra time. My friend's sister was selling some of her son's clothes that he had grown out of and I bought quite a few things, one of which was a Nemo Halloween costume. :o)

I decided to made a Nemo treat for Brian's lunch. I've done a few chocolate transfers for my cakes and I thought this would be the best way to get something that actually looked like Nemo. In case there are any other crazy people out there and you want to give this a try, here's how I do it. You'll need wax or parchment paper, the picture you're copying, tape, something to tape the wax paper to (I use a cake board circle), paintbrushes, toothpicks, chocolate candy melts (I use Wilton's because they sell the different color chocolate and it makes life that much easier), something to melt your chocolate in (I use ceramic melting cups but small microwavable bowls will work just fine), a microwave, and some patience. :o)

Tape your picture to your cake board (or other flat surface) and cut a piece of wax paper bigger than your picture to lay on top. Tape the wax paper down, making sure it's flat and secure.








Place your chocolate candy melts in your melting cup. Make sure to work with one color at a time because I found the chocolate solidifies pretty quickly. I started with the black (I'm not sure if you can always find black.....They were carrying it since it's about to be Halloween). Place 4 chocolate discs in your cup and melt in the microwave at 30% power at 10 second intervals. This is what the directions calls for....I'll be honest, it was taking forever so I microwaved for 30 seconds at a time. Keep stirring every time you take the cup out and once you have a somewhat fluid consistency, you're ready to start painting. I used Wilton paintbrushes as well but found the tips were small enough. I'll have to go in search of some really fine pointed paintbrushes.

I started with the pupils of the eyes (remember you are flipping your image over once it is dry, so you want to start with the details) and I put a few black stripes on the tail. Next I melted the white, chocolate discs. After the black dried (it's very important to make sure one color dries before applying the next or you will have blending) I colored the rest of the eyes with the white and painted the white stripes and mouth. That dried and I went back with the black (I had to reheat mine because it had solidified too much) and filled in around the stripes and mouth.

Next I melted the orange and painted the rest of Nemo, making sure to paint orange over the back of the entire thing so all of the chocolate stayed in one piece.


















I melted some green and painted some plant life on the wax paper to add to the treat.











Once the chocolate is dry, slowly (very slowly...that was a LOT of work!) peel the wax paper off the chocolate and flip it over. :o)













I can't quite figure out how to turn my picture. :o( My husband has been gone for a year....Once he returns he can make my blog look pretty. :o)

I melted blue chocolate and painted a graham cracker with it and carefully pressed my Nemo and seaweed chocolate transfers into the blue water. I crushed up graham crackers (ahead of time) and gently pressed that along the bottom for sand.

It took a while to make....but I enjoyed doing it. :o)