Chocolate products attract many of us, especially if they are made by hand for a loved one. Various chocolate figurines besides being a delicious delicacy can be an excellent decoration for different desserts and cakes. If you are interested in how to make chocolate hearts on Valentine's Day, then follow my simple recommendations and you will have an excellent reason to surprise your beloved on this day of lovers. The main character we have today is chocolate - probably the best ingredient for all the delicacies.

Chocolate is also a symbol of Valentine's Day, not for nothing that this day lovers give each other valentines - chocolates in the form of hearts. In this case, using your skillful hands, you can make original and tasty products for this special day.

Now it’s time to learn how to make chocolate hearts on Valentine’s Day. These lace chocolate hearts are very easy to prepare, they can complete any meal. They can be either a self-starter or a beautiful decoration for cakes, pies or other desserts.

These chocolate hearts will decorate your holiday table, of course, if you don’t eat them all before it.

In order to make chocolate hearts you need:

• - chocolate;
• - forms for cookies in the form of a heart;
• - pastry bag.

First, place the baking paper on the table and draw the outlines on the paper using the heart-shaped cookie forms. To do this, you can use any other stencil in the shape of a heart, which you have at hand.

After the entire surface of the paper is covered with painted hearts, you should turn it to the opposite side.

Next, melt the chocolate in a water bath and place it in a pastry bag with a spoon. If you do not have a pastry bag, you can make it yourself. To do this, make a small bag out of baking paper and cut it off a little from the end. Add the chocolate in the bag and wrap the paper on top.

You should work at a fast pace so that the chocolate does not have time to harden.

After you draw the heart with chocolate, fill the inside with arbitrary lines to create a lace pattern.

Here's how to make chocolate hearts on Valentine's Day.

Hearts are very tender and fragile, so you need to handle them very carefully.

When the chocolate hardens, carefully remove them from the paper using a thin spatula or knife. Decorate your cake, cake or dessert with it. Or put it separately in a candy bowl and serve. Your second half will be delighted.

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Similarly, you can make such delicacies for other holidays, using various other shapes. For example, on Halloween, you can make chocolates with your own hands in the form of horror stories, bat, skull, etc. Children will love it, you can even engage them in the cooking process. Good and fun pastime guaranteed!

What is Valentine's Day? For some, it is a symbol of waiting for first love, for someone - her memory. For some, this is a day of fulfilled hopes for mutual love, for someone - another confirmation of love, tenderness and loyalty. And the love itself for someone is the fire of passion, and for someone it is a bouquet of care, tenderness and trust.

After all, the legend of St. Valentine, in whose honor this day is named - the legend of different types of love. In prison, wanting to encourage the doomed co-religionists, Valentine wrote letters to them in the form of red hearts, meaning Christian love. Valentin, as a patrician, could have escaped death, and a death sentence was imposed on his servants.

Valentine today - the most common gift to a loved one, even if the yard is not February 14. And it is always made in the shape of a heart. We invite you to learn about the record-breaking large chocolate hearts of the whole world, as well as create such a sweet valentine yourself.

Chocolate valentine

February 14 - Valentine's Day, which is celebrated around the world. However, for a chocolatier, this is a reason to confess your love not only to your sweethearts, but also to sweets! Therefore, from year to year new records are set.

According to legend, the Roman patrician Valentin, who was a secret priest, once held the wedding ceremony of his servant and maid. But according to the denunciation, all three were detained by the guards - Christians were persecuted in ancient Rome. And then Valentine, who persuaded the guard to release his servants in return for his life. Before entering the arena of death, Valentin handed the last letter, consecrated by faith and kindness, to a blind girl, who then received his sight and became a beauty.

Valentine's day - the day is as diverse and unexpected, amazing and joyful as love itself. Therefore, it has a place and fun, and the joys of love, and positive. Tell me about your feelings ... sweet.

The biggest chocolate heart record

In 2004, in the Spanish city of Madrid, Valentine's Day poured a heart out of colossal chocolate and seven-ton weight! This is a world record for making sweet items in principle.

He put the company «Chocovic» - Spanish manufacturer of sweets. The author of the sketch is Luis Morera, designer and artist from Spain. Who gave such a giant valentine, you ask? It was created for a party of a large dating site. We hope that on her many lonely hearts are joined together!

Another record boasts Bangkok. In one of the hotels in this country created a Valentine from gingerbread dough and tiles of 25 square meters! It was wider than the Spanish, but lighter - its weight was “only” a ton. The author is a cook from Germany G. Pfaff with a team. They also prepared it for Valentine's Day.

The Slavic countries are also gratifying with their record in Valentines. The Museum of Chocolate Art in the city of Simferopol (when it was still in Ukraine) created the heart of 15,000 AVK tiles. The weight was only 170 kg, but the love of Simferopol covered much more space than their colleagues: the length of the valentine exceeded 14 m, the width - 4 m 50 cm.

According to the Japanese tradition, on Valentine's Day they give only and exclusively chocolate. In Osaka, the ancient Japanese capital, they once made a huge heart-shaped candy weighing over two hundred kilos — about like a small car.

In the Guinness Book of Records made and remains unsurpassed record modest town of Samara. In the heart of the Volga region, on the Day of the city, the puppetors confessed their love for the Motherland, creating a “valentine” weighing one ton and 238 kg. She was doused with a glaze of 510 tiles. It is known that after fixing the record, Samarans themselves, who came to the feast, quickly ate the valentine. Here is a good heart in the Volga chocolatier!

Chocolate heart do it yourself

Try to make a “valentine” from a tile with more than 70 percent cocoa beans. She is worthy of the old naming of "black gold": the greater the percentage of beans, the more expensive the tile, because the beans were brought to Europe from the New World. Fortunately, today black tiles are already inexpensive and affordable. However, these tiles are considered exquisite, and their lovers - gourmets. 90% tile is called extra black. The aroma will be richer, the taste - more bitter.

This tile is easy to make yourself.

You will need:
3 tablespoons sour cream;
2 tablespoons of sugar;
6 tbsp. L. Cocoa;
100 g butter;
Nuts - on request.

It is important to take the volume of tablespoons without a slide. Use the universal method of cooking. Of course, you can always just buy a tile. But it is much more pleasant to do it yourself and be sure that no thickeners will spoil your mood or take advantage! We take the standard recipe with the fact that there is always in the kitchen of each housewife. We will cook in a big cezve or steel scoop.

Capacity set at the minimum fire. Pour the ingredients, stir the contents until smooth. Boil the mass will not, but after the start of "gurgling" you need to immediately remove it from the fire.

To diversify the recipe, you can take nuts - cashews, walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, pistachios: the choice of peanuts and hazelnuts often due to their relative prevalence and the fact that they are not expensive, as well as the fact that they are most often taken for confectionery. In this case, fry the nuts in the presence of husk (in hazelnuts, peanuts) on moderate heat without vegetable oil, until the husk is gone. You can simply buy roasted nuts.

Valentine do it yourself

Make an edible scarlet valentine with white tile and food colors.

You will need:
80 g tiles;
40 g of cream;
Heart shape;
Food gel dye red.
In hot cream, add tiles and dyes. Heat the cream in a water bath or sauté pan, add a tile and immediately dye.
Stir, do not boil, cool to the same body temperature. The consistency should be viscous. Drain it from the nozzle of the ladle, pots, confectionery bag-cornet, which is easy to make yourself from baking paper in the form of a heart. Cool in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Chocolate heart cake quickly

Each housewife can bake and decorate a delicious dessert at home. Prepare a favorite surprise from an edible heart. In many pastry shops you can order a cake with “skinny” (glossy icing) and mastic figures ... but isn't it better to do it yourself, especially since it is simple and fast?

You will need sponge cake or waffle cakes - the base of the cake.

For filling:
2 cups of milk;
2 eggs;
120 g butter;
100-150 g of cocoa powder;
Half a cup of sugar;
Pinch of vanilla;
If desired, cocoa, sugar and vanilla can be replaced with 1 melted chocolate.

We take a biscuit or cakes, cut off the layers so that the heart is turned out.

Boil the milk, pour the liquid chocolate into it (melt the tile beforehand or mix and bring the ingredients suggested to the boiling), remove from the heat. Beat eggs, pour them into a warm chocolate mass. Boil and cool. Mix with butter. The filling is ready!

Each layer of biscuit or waffle should be smeared with a creamy chocolate filling. The basis of a delicious and aromatic dessert is ready. Now on top we will pour or cover it with icing.

Frosting is made from marshmallows. This sweet delicacy is a cult treat in the USA; neither holidays nor tourist trips can do without it. Marshmallow has a delicate flavor, is not a fat product, and therefore is a quite useful alternative to the usual cake, inconvenient to carry and high-calorie.
In Russia, marshmallows are not yet so common, so your children, friends and guests will be pleasantly surprised by the pleasure and benefits of marshmallows.

The main secret of marshmallows - when mixed with certain ingredients, they become similar to clay. It is from it that they make gorgeous figures of brides and grooms on huge wedding cakes from American films. This technology has come to Russia. The mastic recipe is very simple, here only accuracy is important and, attention, strict adherence to proportions.

You will need:
320 g of marshmallows (take white, you can paint it!);
1-1.5 cups of powdered sugar;
Tablespoon of lemon juice or water;
Scarlet food coloring.

Melt until swelling (as when roasting) marshmallows in a microwave or over a saucepan of water. Do not hold more than 30 seconds, marshmallows will no longer be elastic, and the future mastic will not be able to keep its shape.

If you need a lot of one-color mastic for coating - it's time to introduce a dye. It is added to the molten mass of marshmallows in the proportion indicated on the package.

Chocolate heart cupcake at home

In Russia, do-it-yourself cupcakes are not yet so common, so your loved one will be pleasantly surprised by the pleasure and benefits of home baking. And you can make it quickly and easily, without spending a lot of time. If men read us - well, the way to a woman's heart can be found through small pleasant surprises with your own hands ... like a cupcake-declaration of love!

Ingredients for a classic cupcake:
1 cup of sugar - 200 g;
Half a pack of butter;
Bitter tile (from 70% cocoa);
Half a cup of walnuts;
Half a cup of flour;
4 eggs.

It will take you about an hour to prepare and, most importantly, a silicone heart-shaped mold, plus paper molds for serving!

Melt the tile before breaking it; Do not boil.
- Remove the mass from the stove and mix with heated oil. Now add flour in small portions into the mixture, stirring it. Make sure that there are no lumps.
- In a blender, whisk the eggs and sugar to a foamy consistency. Mix with a lot of flour and cocoa.
- Smash the shelled nuts in a mortar, coffee maker, blender and add to the mixture.

Go to the "hot" stage. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Cover the oven baking sheet with parchment, brush with oil. Put the dough in the form, put it in the oven. Bake for about half an hour, then cool to room temperature.

Done! You made a classic cupcake. The consistency of it is quite hard, reminiscent of dry biscuits or chocolate cake. But it is thanks to her that he keeps his forms perfectly. Serve in paper tins. Decorate with a scoop of strawberry ice cream - it will add romance.

What is usually given on Valentine's Day? Postcards, flowers and candy. And of course, everywhere hearts, hearts, hearts, and declarations of love.
  I suggest you make yourself a sweet valentine, and combine business with pleasure, namely flowers and chocolate.
  For this we need very little. First, of course, chocolate. Secondly, a silicone mold for ice with hearts. Several wooden skewers and a plastic cup. Well, the fridge so that all this splendor will quickly freeze, but I hope you have a fridge.

The very first thing is to break the chocolate into pieces, and send it to the steam bath to melt. Who does not know about the steam bath, everything is simple. A saucepan with water on the stove, water boils, a colander is on top of the saucepan (not touching the water), and there is a container with chocolate in it.

While the chocolate is melting, let's make a mold. Cut one "heart".

From the bottom of the form, along the fold line we make an incision to about half the height of the form. At the end of this incision, we make another incision, transverse, cruciform, very small, so that a wooden skewer passes.

Now set the skewer in the slot, and check the readiness of the chocolate.

If the chocolate has already melted, mix it and gently pour it into the mold. In order not to leave any air bubbles, the mold can be slightly shaken, gently tap on the walls or gently mix the chocolate mass with a toothpick. We put the form in the refrigerator, and you can in the freezer to speed up the process.

Now pour liquid chocolate into a plastic cup. It will be a pot stand for our chocolate flower.

Let's wait a little, and when the chocolate mass slightly thickens, put three skewers in a glass. Everything can be sent to the fridge.

At intervals of 10 minutes, check how the chocolate hardens in the glass. It is necessary to catch the moment when you can easily remove the skewers, and the holes from them will remain.

I decided to take the initiative, melted some more white chocolate, and spoiled everything and made some ornaments. It is simple to do - you need to pour the melted chocolate into a conventional medical syringe, and squeeze it onto a sheet of parchment in the form of some kind of pattern. I, of course, have hearts.

When the chocolate finally froze in the heart-shaped mold, carefully remove the shape. At this stage, it is best to work with gloves, well, or to take chocolate, grabbing a piece of napkin or parchment, since chocolate melts very easily from the heat of the hands, and the shape may not become so neat.
  So, we have a heart on a stick. In theory, now you can pack it in a beautiful bag, tie it with a ribbon, and give it like a cockerel on a stick. And you can stick a skewer with a heart in the delivery-pot. A little decoration, and the gift is ready.

Of all the different forms and images, the shape of the heart is suitable for Valentine's Day like nothing else. At the same time make them at home from the most ordinary chocolate bars easy! Such cute figures will be an excellent decoration of any table and at the same time will bring a special romantic mood.

Well, let's get down to the manufacture of the dessert itself. To do this, you and I will need to perform several actions that I have specially broken for you into easy steps.

1. Assemble all the necessary components.

Here, in fact, everything is quite simple, we need a very small amount of ingredients, most of which are already at home for everyone:

• 2-3 bars of chocolate;
• silicone molds, hearts;
• butter knife (to gently cut chocolate out of molds, if it doesn’t come out well from there);
• microwave;
• freezer;
• spoon;
• deep cup.

In order for the melting process itself to go a little faster, the chocolate can be crumbled into small pieces and then carefully pour them into a prepared deep bowl. Make sure that there are no lumps in the chocolate, stir the resulting mass. In order to melt chocolate, in principle, it is usually enough just some 15 seconds in the microwave. But please, be careful not to burn the resulting chocolate mass, it can easily overheat, or even burn. Also you can use not a microwave, but a double boiler.

Peanuts, raisins, dried apricots, prunes, walnuts, almonds, seeds and other dry additives are perfect for such a dessert. You can also easily add berries, fruits, or even mix different types of chocolate - for example, white and dairy. It will be very original, and most importantly - delicious!

Now we need the heart molds that I mentioned earlier. Gently use a spoon to pour the chocolate into the forms, but please do not burn yourself. If you don’t have a special heart shape in your kitchen, pour some flat flat baking sheet with chocolate. And after it hardens, cut out the heart shape with a knife.

5. Leave the chocolate to harden in the freezer.

This process usually takes 2 to 4 minutes. Do not forget to cover the plate with chocolate forms with some kind of lid before putting it in the freezer. Personally, I have only one department in my home that serves to freeze food, so, unfortunately, there is a special mixed smell there. If you do not want your chocolate hearts  it smelled like frozen meat or other products stored there, the best thing is to cover the frosting tins.

6. Remove the resulting chocolate hearts from the molds.

If you frozen chocolate in silicone forms, you will not be difficult to get them from there. To do this, just give them a minute to stand at room temperature. If you are going to cut hearts out of a flat straight shape, make yourself special stencils that make it easier to cut the shape with a knife.

Beautifully put the resulting chocolate hearts on the plates and enjoy their taste together. Agree, it is incredibly pleasant to prepare such interesting decorations for the table, and then eating them is twice more pleasant.