Hey Cupid! - Playing With My Food, How To Make Delicious Cupid

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day and my son has given me a list of his classmate's names last Friday, so that I would prepare something for them, like a bag of sweets with cute cards and whatnot. Obviously we would also give something to the teacher.

When I didn't know Steemit half year ago, I was busy with my home bakery, and on Valentine's Day we'd have special offer of chocolate covered apples, which I wanted to make for the teacher.

But of course, all those colored chocolate buttons we used have dairy in them, so I went to grab raw cocoa butter yesterday, and I made a trial half hour ago, and came up with this one 😁

I didn't check whether I still have complete food colors in the pantry, I would have come up with better hair color, say yellow, just like what my bakery would produce, but ah well 😁 At least Cupid is vegan AF (no, not aquafaba 😂😂😂😂).

Not vegan

Sent a picture to my husband at work telling him that am sad it's not yellow hair but orange/copper instead, he said it's cute, it's Irish Cupid 😁

I already grabbed goodies for the students and also a box of chocolate for the teacher, yesterday. If am not too lazy going out this eve, I think I will make another (with yellow hair) vegan Cupid.

For now though, here is how I made this delish vegan chocolate covered apple 😊

Ingredients

• apples of your choice
• 1 bag (250 g) raw cocoa butter chips, this wasn't cheap, mine cost $12, another brand was $14
• enough icing sugar
• vegetable shortening, as needed - if needed
• white corn syrup, as needed
• food color, gel, Wilton brand is vegan friendly
• edible pen marker
• fondant/homemade modelling chocolate (storebought would have dairy mostly)
• water, if needed
• edible paper

Additions

• candy stick (I used skewer, it was a trial afterall excuses 😂)
• bowls for melting and mixing, spoon for stirring
• parchment paper
• piping bag and nozzle

How To 1

• line a parchment paper on a plate, set aside
• wash clean and pat dry apple, pull out the stem, discard
• push in skewer as shown

• melt cocoa butter in 30 seconds interval, they easily melt compare to chocolate chips, chocolate bars, chocolate buttons FYI. Stir in icing sugar

• stir in rose food color, lighter or darker result is depending how much food color you add into the cocoa butter, should it seize a little, stir in vegetable shortening, as much as it's needed, only if needed

• dip apple in colored cocoa butter, place on the plate with parchment paper, chill in the fridge until it set

How To 2 - Making Hair

While waiting for apple in the fridge, let's make cupid's hair, which is also made of chocolate. Before vegan, cupid's hair was ganache actually, just tinted yellow 😊

Now for vegan version of the hair:

• melt enough cocoa butter, tint with (as mine was orange food color) food color, and add water a drop or two, it will seize, then stir in enough vegetable shortening. Stir in icing sugar as needed
• spoon mixture into prepared piping bag
• take out apple from fridge and pipe "ganache" all over the top apple, a little to the side, and tons on the back, creating hair-like

Decorating

• with round cookie cutter/puncher/or even a round nozzle, cut two white fondant, as eyes (or chocolate modelling - see below), draw eyes with edible pen. Attach eyes with melted chocolate (left over from dipping apple or the dark chocolate on picture)

• draw wings on edible paper and cut with scissor. Attach wings with melted chocolate (from dipping apple or dark chocolate on picture)
• color a little fondant to make two balls (I tried to tint mine as much as I could to match the color of the apples). Attach these balls on the front sides of the apple as pictured.

• press a skewer on fondant to make indentation
• melt more cocoa butter, stir in icing sugar, tint with red food color, then stir in enough corn syrup until mixture become a mass ==> this is your modeling chocolate, so basically to make modeling chocolate, you just have to add corn syrup into melted chocolate. Rest a bit to harden a little, then shape into heart and end of arrow, let harden a bit then push them into each end of skewer. Attach this "arrow" on fondant "hands" as shown
• draw a smile and eye brows with edible pen and your Cupid is ready 😊

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