Acquire how to make chocolate curls from a bar of chocolate to dress upwardly any dessert recipe that could use a bonus cocoa chemical element.

A pile of chocolate curls.
Table of Contents
  1. Tutorial notes
  2. Instructions
  3. How to Make Chocolate Curls Recipe

Tutorial notes

  • Chocolate bar: Quality matters. Feel free to mix up the cacao percentage or make chocolate shavings with a couple of bars of varying colors (I honey a mix of milk and actress nighttime chocolate) for visual and flavor complication.
  • White chocolate: For a snowy look, consider adding a dusting of white chocolate curls on top of the dark or milk chocolate curls.
  • Yield: A 3- to 4-ounce bar and this method makes plenty chocolate curls to peak my Bûche de Noël (Yule Log Cake). Scale up or down every bit needed for your specific chocolate dessert recipe.
  • Storage: To foreclose any potential melting, refrigerate the chocolate curls until you lot're ready to use them.
  • Pinnacle it off: Effort chocolate curls every bit a topping for ice cream sundaes, Oreo Brownie Trifle, Blackness Forest Block, Chocolate Lasagna, Icebox Cake, or Cheesecake Brownies.

Instructions

  • Using a vegetable peeler, shave the edge of the chocolate bar for narrow curls, or the side of the chocolate bar for wide curls. Curls can be refrigerated or kept at room temperature for a brusk amount of fourth dimension.
Shaving chocolate curls off a bar of chocolate.

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How to Make Chocolate Curls

Learn how to brand chocolate curls from a bar of chocolate to clothes up any dessert recipe that could use a bonus cocoa element.

Prep Time 5 mins

Full Fourth dimension 5 mins

Servings viii servings (1 tbsp each)

Class Dessert

Cuisine American

Calories 85

  • ane (4 ounce) chocolate bar room temperature (encounter note i)

  • Using a vegetable peeler, shave the border of the chocolate bar for narrow curls, or the side of the chocolate bar for broad curls. Curls can exist refrigerated or kept at room temperature for a curt corporeality of time.

  1. Chocolate bar: Quality matters. Feel gratuitous to mix up the cacao percentage or make chocolate shavings with a couple of bars of varying colors (I love a mix of milk and actress dark chocolate) for visual and flavor complexity.
  2. White chocolate: For a snowy look, consider adding a dusting of white chocolate curls on height of the dark or milk chocolate curls.
  3. Yield: A 3- to four-ounce bar and this method makes enough chocolate curls to top my Bûche de Noël (Yule Log Cake). Calibration up or down equally needed for your specific chocolate dessert recipe.
  4. Storage: To prevent any potential melting, refrigerate the chocolate curls until you lot're prepare to use them.
  5. Summit it off: Try chocolate curls as a topping for ice cream sundaes, Oreo Credibility Trifle, Black Forest Cake, Chocolate Lasagna, Icebox Block, or Cheesecake Brownies.

Serving: ane tbsp Calories: 85 kcal Carbohydrates: vii m Protein: 1 g Fat: 6 grand Saturated Fatty: three g Trans Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: one mg Sodium: 3 mg Potassium: 101 mg Fiber: 2 m Sugar: 3 g Vitamin A: 6 IU Calcium: 10 mg Iron: two mg

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