OUGD405 Edible Type - Development

OUGD405 Edible Type - Development

We started off by creating the chocolate cups by melting chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan with boiling water, then dipping the half blown up balloons into the bowl of melted chocolate, so that half of them is covered in chocolate. We found that when doing this we had to wait for the chocolate to cool for a bit otherwise the heat of the chocolate burst the balloon After testing a few times, we found that the chocolate had to be at a warm temperature, and they worked quite well. However, once they were cool, we then came back and tired to take the balloons out, which resulting in the chocolate cracking and breaking, therefore they did not work very well.

Next we made the cupcakes using a simple mixture. We weighed two eggs and then used this weight to measure out the flour, sugar, and butter as well. Putting the cake mixture into silicone cake cases, we put them in the oven for 20 minutes or so until cooked. We mis-timed the cakes a bit however, so some of them were a little burnt. We next made the cookie mixture, using a simple recipe off the internet, which used the same ingredients as the cupcakes but in different measures. We added a bit of melted chocolate to the cookies as well and also some chocolate drops as well. We then rolled small balls of cookie dough into balls and placed them into a baking tray, then put them in the oven to cook for about 10-15 minutes.

Once the cupcakes were cooked we left them to cool whilst mixing up buttercream icing. When the cupcakes were cool enough to be iced, we transferred the buttercream icing into a icing pipe and piped the icing onto the cupcakes, covering the whole top of the cupcakes. We initially tried quite a large nozzle, however this made the icing far too thick for the size of the cupcake, and used up way too much icing as well. We settled for a smaller, more star like nozzle instead. After icing all the cupcakes, we then decorated them using a selection of christmas themes sprinkles, including candy canes, christmas trees and holly leaves.

To decorate the cookies once they had cooled also, we melted some more milk chocolate on the oven and the spooned the melted chocolate onto the cookies, so that it drizzled down the sides and covered all of the top of the cookies. We then decorated the cookies using the same christmas sprinkles as we used for the cupcakes. We put the cookies in the fridge to help set the chocolate.

Overall our final production wasn't successful but none of us are bakers and we'll know for next time not to work with chocolate to such an extent and try something else. However we had fun making and tasting these so I'm not bothered about how they turned out in the end, we stuck to the brief and had fun which is what the Edible type brief is all about.