How to Make Chocolate Roses - Kitchen Scrapbook

Posted on February 11, 2009
Filed Under For special occassions, Garnishing, Holiday cooking

Valentines Day… Chocolate. Roses. What a perfect time to merge the two and make Chocolate Roses! Actually, it isn’t just a Valentines treat, it’s timeless decor for any table or dessert year-round.

I’ve been wanting to try these for awhile. But they always looked so complicated. But they still intrigued me. So, I finally made some…

This is all you do:

Take about 2/3 cup of chocolate chips and melt them. Add about 3 Tbsp. light corn syrup.

Stir until mixture starts pulling away from the sides of the bowl and starts balling up. It’ll be kinda like taffy. Dump it out onto a piece of plastic wrap and flatten. Cover with more plasic wrap and refrigerate for a half hour or so.

Get it out and pull a chunk off, about a tsp., and roll it around with your fingers till it’s a smooth ball, then flatten it into a petal. Make 6 -10 petals, depending on how big you want your rose.

Take one of the petals and roll it up loosely. Use your finger to bend the top back just slightly.

Take the next petal and start it just behind where the first petal ended.

Continue like that until all the petals are used up, bending the tops back slightly as you go. When your rose is done, cut off the stem (which will have gotten quite chunky) so the rose can sit flat. Or, go ahead and try making it thin and having a long-stemmed rose! I might try that next time.

I tried a rosebud by using only 2 petals. After making 2 roses and 1 rosebud and the leaves, I had some chocolate left yet, so I just made a heart with it. So, what you see on this plate is how much 2/3 cup chocolate chips makes.

Now what I need is a nice dessert to put them on. ???? But, I don’t have one, so I’m just gonna keep them in the freezer and whip ’em out sometime when I need some quick dessert decor!

So, what do you think? You gonna try them?

Comments

11 Responses to “How to Make Chocolate Roses”

Katie Mast on February 12th, 2009 6:17 pm

Yes i will try them this week. They look so beautiful. I will let you know how they get for me. I used to make roses out of apples, much the same way you did here. Thanks for the cool idea
Lori on February 12th, 2009 9:55 pm

I made a flourless chocolate cake. It is a dense chocolate cake for chocolate lovers. I found the recipe at allrecipes.com. The roses would look great on my heart shaped cake!
Elaine on February 13th, 2009 12:51 pm

These would look great on my Chocolate Turtle Cheese Cake for our couples dinner tonight. Now let’s see if I can do it!
karen on February 15th, 2009 6:30 pm

Wow!!!!!!!!Thanks for the beautiful idea. It worked great and I used them on a fruit platter.
katie mast on February 17th, 2009 7:13 pm

I tryed them, they didnt look as pretty as yours. I thought mine melted so fast. did i do something wrong?
Maria on March 25th, 2011 7:01 am

Hi. Wow, it looks really amazing, and it looks like it’s not that hard to make. Looking forward to try making some roses, hope I’ll manage to make’em as pretty as yours
jayne on May 5th, 2011 3:48 pm

Hi Kay,
Chanced upon your site as I am looking to make chocolate roses (I recon I will need around 80-100 for my daughters wedding cake. I can only find recipies with corn oil. Do you know what the equivalent of this is for us in the UK ? can we use a sunflower oil?
Thanks
Jayne
Kay on May 10th, 2011 5:10 pm

Jayne, use corn syrup instead of oil. Wow, 80-100, that sounds like work, but FUN work! That will be beautiful on the cake! And congratulations to your daughter!
Kim on May 17th, 2011 3:44 pm

Do you have to use chocolate chips? I would like to make red roses. Can I use red chocolate wafers?
Kay on May 17th, 2011 3:54 pm

Awesome idea, Kim! I don’t know if it will or won’t work, but I’m going to try it!
UMM on June 6th, 2011 6:01 am

HOW LONG DO THESE KEEP IN THE FREEZER AND HOW LONG TO THAW