Chocolate Leaves

2 ingredients
10 steps

Ingredients

  • 10 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
  • 24 fresh lemon or camellia leaves (or other nonpoisonous leaves), wiped clean with damp cloth

Directions

  1. 1
    Line baking sheet with foil.
  2. 2
    Stir chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water until melted and smooth (do not allow bottom of bowl to touch water).
  3. 3
    Remove from over water.
  4. 4
    Using back of spoon, spread chocolate over veined underside of 1 leaf; wipe away any chocolate that drips over edge.
  5. 5
    Place leaf, chocolate side up, on prepared sheet.
  6. 6
    Repeat coating with remaining leaves and chocolate.
  7. 7
    Refrigerate just until chocolate sets, about 1 hour.
  8. 8
    Carefully peel chocolate leaves off lemon leaves.
  9. 9
    Return chocolate leaves to same sheet.
  10. 10
    Cover; chill up to 1 week.

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