Chocolate Transparent Icing
A simple chocolate icing recipe.
Ingredients
- 3 oz Fine chocolate
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1/2 gill Syrup
- as needed Boiled sugar
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- 1In a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water (or in a microwave at 30-second intervals, stirring in between), melt the chocolate with a small amount of water, stirring constantly until smooth.
- 2Dilute the melted chocolate with the syrup. Work the mixture until it is perfectly smooth.
- 3Add the chocolate mixture to boiled sugar (as per the original recipe). The exact method for preparing the boiled sugar is not provided in the source text, so follow a standard boiled sugar recipe or use a pre-made sugar syrup.
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