{"id":9017,"date":"2016-02-23T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:48:48","slug":"decorative-chocolate-garnish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/decorative-chocolate-garnish\/","title":{"rendered":"Decorative Chocolate Garnish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fill a spoon with melted chocolate and drizzle it in a design on waxed paper.<br \/>\nRefrigerate until hard<\/p>\n<p>Use a small balloon and dip it into melted chocolate.<br \/>\nLet it cool, then dip one more time.<br \/>\nRefrigerate.<br \/>\nIn an hour, pop the balloon for an edible bowl<\/p>\n<p>Melt milk chocolate in a double boiler just till it is soft and spreadable.<br \/>\nSpread it onto a sheet of small sized bubble wrap<br \/>\nRefrigerate for at least an hour<br \/>\nBreak apart and use pieces for garnish on ice cream, cake, etc<\/p>\n<p>Simply use a potato peeler and peel curls off a chocolate bar<\/p>\n<p>Dip a mint leaf into the chocolate halfway<\/p>\n<p>NOTE:  If you add a tiny bit of paraffin to the chocolate, it will melt less readily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fill a spoon with melted chocolate and drizzle it in a design on waxed paper. Refrigerate until hard Use a small balloon and dip it into melted chocolate. Let it cool, then dip one more time. Refrigerate. In an hour, pop the balloon for an edible bowl Melt milk chocolate in a double boiler just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/decorative-chocolate-garnish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decorative Chocolate Garnish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9018,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9017\/revisions\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}