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Fossil chocolates

10/10/2012

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Today, we made fossil chocolates. We made a mould out of putty. It was in two parts, and we had to roll it to mix it together. (Edit from Mummy: food-grade silicon)

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Then we pushed fossils in the mould - we cleaned them first.

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When the moulds got hard, we pulled the fossils out. We made a few moulds from each fossil. We left the moulds over night, and then we washed them to get them nice and clean.



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Then we needed to get the chocolate into the moulds - but they didn't fit like this!

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So, we had to melt it. We had a pot of boiling water, with a pan in it. And that pan - can you see in this picture? - had the chocolate in.

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The chocolate started to melt.

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We put the chocolate into the moulds, then we put the moulds in the fridge.

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And this is what they looked like!


...and that's our whole story. Why don't you make some chocolate fossils?

4 Comments
sally Ann joyce
10/10/2012 05:17:15 pm

They look really great Toby and i bet they tasted yummy to?

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Hazel Crompton
10/10/2012 06:06:43 pm

That's so cool Toby! It looks like you had to be very careful melting that chocolate, but I bet it was worth it. Can you use the same moulds again for more? Perhaps you could try some white chocolate next time too?

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Dirk
10/10/2012 07:23:10 pm

Awesome :) Not as instable as the starch method! Against those air bubbles you need to shake the moulds when filled. Unfortunately, commercial grade machines cost more than 1.000 pounds. If you have some stepper motors (around 5 pounds each), a little bit of coding knowledge (free), a ATtiny programmer (DIY kit for 40 pounds), some cheap ATtiny processors (usually less then 50 pence each) and a soldering iron (less than 10 pounds, cheapist thing will work) and some spare electronic parts (for free in old radios and stuff), you can build a shaking machine (jogger?) yourself. But that's something for 10-12 years age, I thik. :)

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Katrin link
10/11/2012 01:56:25 am

Wow, those look awesome.
Could you bring some with you when you come visiting me?

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    Hello, my name is Toby. I am five years old, and I want to be a palaeontologist. I really like fossils, so I'm writing down everything I do with fossils! My Mummy is doing the typing until I'm a bit older, but she writes everything I say.

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