I am Ann Reardon

Over 200 of you asked for a chocolate version of starry night by vincent van gough.

A special shout out to Myranda Barton who was the first to request it and to JoJo who

asked for a chocolate paint palette.

I'll show you how to make the palette, the flavoured chocolate paints and these cool

little paint tubes. And yes I'll even paint starry night at the end using chocolate

To make the palette you need to take some tempered chocolate and spread it out on some

nonstick baking paper in about the thickness you want you palette to be. Then cut out the

template which you can find on the website howtocookthat.net I'll put a link in the description

below the video. And the cut around it using a sharp knife.

Then use your knife to just gently run it across and make a wood grain pattern in your

chocolate. Using something round push it in where the thumbhole should be to take out

that circle of chocolate. un your knife across the top to make a wood grain pattern in the

chocolate. Then set that aside to set firmly.

To make the paint tubes take some foil and decide if you want to shiny side or mat side

showing. It doesn't matter which one you use as long as you are consistent. Roll it up

around something that is about 1.5cm in diameter, I am just using one of those fat kids textas.

Next take the label and add glue all over the back of it. You can print these labels

from the website as well if you just go to the blog post on chocolate paint and as I

said I'll put a link in the description below. All the recipe quantities that you'll need

for the paint and everything are there as well.

Check that your texta sticks out one end so that you can get it out again. And at the

other end feel where the top of the texta is, you will need to leave enough room over

the edge so that you can make the top of the tube. Roll the label around the tube starting

with the side of the label that has more spare room before the writing starts.

Take a pencil or something skinnier and and place it in the end and crush the foil the

make it fit closely to the pencil. Get some tape and wrap it tightly around that foil,

and this is to hold it into place so that when you squeeze your paint tube it doesn't

just expand back out again. It doesn't matter if the sticky slightly overlaps onto the pencil.

Then take a utility knife and run it around the foil to make a straight edge at the top

of your paint tube and then remove then pencil Take out the texta and set that aside.

For our paints to make it a more fun I am flavouring the ganache. To do that I am using

freeze dried banana for the yellow bananas one, some crushed berry blue lollies to make

the berry blue obviously, some dried chilli for the hot red chilli, some fresh mint for

the green and a small amount of sea salt for the light blue. We will also make some plain

chocolate ones some plain vanilla and plain dark chocolate. Remember all of the quantities

that you need for theses are on the website.

Bring your cream to the boil either on the stove top or in the microwave.

Then add some to each bowl and allow it to sit for a little while to infuse the flavour

around 10 minutes will be fine. Then strain your cream through a fine sieve to get rid

of any lumps.

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Add colour to the cream making sure your colour matches the flavour so this will be mint green.

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just before the new system rolled out it can no longer be liked or replied to, so just

ask it again if you didn't get a reply to a a question that you need to know.

Then add your white chocolate. And then microwave in 10 second bursts or or heat over a double

boiler stirring continually until it is melted.

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on your posts" then I can't reply to your comments either at the moment even though

it is on youtube so you'll need to go to google plus and add how to cook that - there is a

link to my google plus page in the description below this video.

Once your ganache is smooth scoop into a ziplock bag.

While it is still warm squeeze some ganache into the end of your paint tube and tap it

until it is down to the top end. You don't want to fill it all the way up just a a little

way past the label.

The ganache is runnier while it is warm so you want to fill your paint tube as soon as

you make each one. It is easiest to fill it if you drizzle it in from the top.

Flatten the end and wipe off any excess ganache. Use scissors to straighten it up and then

fold over then very end a few times to seal it. Repeat that for your other flavours and

colours.

To make your chocolate paper use the same method that we used in the pencil video, put

your chocolate between two sheets of non-stick paper and spread it out thinly using a rolling

pin. Peel off the top sheet so you have two thin pieces of paper and then trim them to

the desired size. For starry night I am going to use milk chocolate paper. If you look at

the edge of the actual painting you can see that the background that he is painting on

is not white.

To serve take it to the table in a wooden paint box if you've got one. Then place your

palette, clean paintbrushes, tubes of chocolate paint and your paper onto a serving platter.

And then squeeze out some of your different coloured chocolate paints onto the palette.

Now for starry night by vincent van gough, due to a lack of good lighting at night vincent

had to paint this from his memory during the day.

He wrote in a letter "a star spangled sky for instance that's a thing I would like to

try to do... But how can I unless I make up my mind to work... from my imagination."

[music locally sourced by Jason Farnham]

And there you have a deliciously edible chocolate starry night.

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and cakes. You can add all your requests in the comments section below. Have a great week

and I'll see you Friday.

music [youtube.com/setsailtv The Boat Song used with permission]