Chocolate Transparent Icing

Ingredients

• 3 oz Fine chocolate
• 1/4 cup Water
• 1/2 gill Syrup
• as needed Boiled sugar

Instructions

1. 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.
2. 2Dilute the melted chocolate with the syrup. Work the mixture until it is perfectly smooth.
3. 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.