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10. While Waiting, Start
Printing the Candy Trays
11. Carefully Demold the
Chocolate
While you are waiting for the chocolate to set
in the fridge, you can start printing your can-
dy trays (
Figure 21-20
). If you don't have a 3D
printer, you will need to plan for this or do
with out the trays. Print the trays using PLA
filament.
The skull chocolates are a little difficult to get
out of the mold. Wear candymaker's cotton
gloves (
Figure 21-21
) to avoid marking the
chocolate with your fingers.
If you are concerned about wheth-
er PLA is food-safe for storage, put
a small piece of wax or parchment
paper beneath each skull.
Figure 21-21.
Demolding the chocolate with candy-
maker's gloves
Twist the rubber mold to loosen the choco-
late. It will help to have small hands (I do and
I am able to remove the chocolates without
destroying them). I found that after loosen-
ing the chocolate by twisting the mold, it is
easiest to twist out the face and rotate it out
of the mold. Then grab the face and pull to
remove the rest of the skull from the mold.
You may smear the teeth a little, but overall
it seems to work the best.
I have made many batches so far and I man-
aged to get all of the chocolates out of the
mold without destroying any of them
(
Figure 21-22
).
Figure 21-20.
Printing PLA candy trays
Here is the link to my candy tray files with
four dividers:
http://www.thingiverse.com/
thing:33432
. This parametric tray code was
written by
acker
, who derived it from
hippie-
gunnut
. I modified the parametric script to
create a tray that would fit four of my choc-
olates perfectly.
