Texture Design with Chocolate
A course by user4464335 surname4464335 , Chocolate Studio
Joined October 2020
Learn how to temper, color, and flavor chocolate to create delicious terrazzo, marble, and concrete textures
Learn how to temper, color, and flavor chocolate to create delicious terrazzo, marble, and concrete textures
Joined October 2020
Design is a discipline rich with mediums to explore, and when combined with chocolate, it becomes visual, tactile, and flavorsome. Through her chocolate design studio BRIK Chocolate, multidisciplinary designer Kia Utzon-Frank designs unique flavors and textures inspired by architectural surfaces.
Discover how to apply your creative ideas through the playful process of designing chocolate textures. Create unique flavors, combine colors, and most importantly, savor your unique confections.
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 18 downloads
- 99% positive reviews (511)
- 14,115 students
- 13 lessons (2h 44m)
- 18 additional resources (6 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
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- Level: Beginner
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What is this course's project?
Create three different chocolate textures inspired by architectural materials and then create a mold, cast around a chosen object to make original flavored chocolate.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is for curious, design-oriented creatives who would like to learn how to create texture designs with chocolate.
Requirements and materials
As for materials you will need some large and small microwaveable plastic bowls, silicone spatulas, a blender, a food thermometer, silicone spatulas, baking paper, cardboard, double-sided tape, cling film, latex powder-free gloves, a mixing container, a scale, silicone, a mixing stick, mold-release spray, dish-washing soap, water, Lego blocks, blue roll, a knife, a chopping board, a hair-dryer or heat gun, a fridge, a microwave.
To give color and flavor to your textures, you will need white chocolate, charcoal, color powders, chai tea, strong black tea, pink peppercorn, matcha powder, spirulina, Earl Grey tea, lemongrass essential oil, and black sesame seeds.
Reviews
A course by user4464335 surname4464335
BRIK Chocolate designs and hand-makes intricate, delicious chocolate textures inspired by architectural surfaces. Founded in 2020 by designer Kia Utzon-Frank and strategist Raffaella Baruzzo, BRIK chocolate seeks to bring a new meaning to eye candy by using natural ingredients, innovation, and a sustainable commitment to our planet.
BRIK Chocolate’s Kia Utzon-Frank is a London-based Danish designer with a passion for creating genre-defying designs. Her clients include Wallpaper*, Sir Terence Conran, Harry Styles, Tom Dixon, The Barbican, Boghossian Jewelery, and Goop. She has created a new perception of this classic indulgence that sparks surprise, wonder, and continuous development of new ideas.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Getting Started with Chocolate, Colours and Mold Making
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Introducing Materials and Setting Up Your Cooking Space
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Making a Mold
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Chocolate Basics: Knowing Our Main Ingredient and Tempering the Chocolate
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How to Mix Colours and Textures and Colour Palette Overview
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U3
Creating Our Chocolate Designs
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Making a Terrazzo Design Slab
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Making a Concrete Design Slab
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Making a Marble Design Slab
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How to Cast an Object in a Silicon Mold 1
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How to Cast an Object in a Silicon Mold 2
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U4
Posting, Presentation and Tasting!
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How to Store, Transport and Package Your Work Sustainably
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How to Pair and Taste Chocolate
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FP
Final project
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Texture Design with Chocolate
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PlusThis course has a great deal of valuable content, very relevant to the chocolate world as it uses original elements and ingredients with great nutritional content...
I never imagined combining turmeric with chocolate or spirulina is a spectacular idea.
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PlusI highly recommend it, I've been watching part of the course and I can't wait to do it. It looks really fun and interesting to be able to put into practice the techniques that it teaches.
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Interesting course but way too short. I would have liked to see more examples being made and more different molds. Still inspiring.
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This course stimulates the brain cells, I loved it , very nice
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I loved. Very original proposals
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