My son celebrated another birthday, and much to my disbelief he's now a double-digit kid. This year he chose a chess cake, and so I experimented with chocolate molds. I researched chess cakes on the internet, and found someone who had the brilliant idea of making a game in progress, which meant making fewer pieces! Since we had just moved house I was a little pressed for time, and I gratefully used her idea. My husband took it a step further, and found a famous end game online, and before we ate the cake, our son got to figure out how to get to check mate!
Experimenting with the molds was interesting, I learned that tempering the chocolate was not that hard, especially since we have a very wonderful digital thermometer. I would definitely use the method again. The hardest part was that the heat of my fingers would take off the lovely shine as I fitted the two halves of the chess pieces together. In future I might experiment with using gloves, and see if that helps.
