The Easiest Way to Decorate Chocolate Skulls for Day of the Dead
How to make and decorate chocolate sugar skulls in the most simple way! Kid friendly tips
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We are a few days away from Halloween and the Day of the Dead celebrations. That put us in the mood of making a super fun and easy tutorial to show you how to make and decorate chocolate sugar skulls using a simple technique we discovered recently and that works great.
The materials we used are fun (lots of candy!) which makes the process interesting for kids, and I’m sure they will want to join and help you with the process too.
Read more about the steps we followed and other details about the process below.
MATERIALS:
3D Sugar skulls mold. We got a plastic one that wasn’t super durable and we couldn’t find it again in any store. This one has better reviews and the shape is awesome.
Another one that we recently found is this one here, and it works great if you want to make flat chocolate sugar skulls. You will need less chocolate to make the sugar skull shapes and you can make more at the same time too.
500 grams of white chocolate
Candy, chocolate chips, colored edible confetti
How to make chocolate sugar skulls and decorate them the easy way:
1. Melt about 90% of the white chocolate in a double boiler carefully. Check the temperature regularly. Turn off the stove when you get a liquid chocolate consistency.
2. Pour the white chocolate in your sugar skull molds, do it slowly and carefully.
3. Put your chocolate sugar skulls in the refrigerator. Leave the chocolate sugar skulls in the refrigerator for one or two hours until they are firm and ready to be decorated.
4. Melt the rest of the white chocolate in a double boiler carefully. Check the temperature regularly. Turn off the stove when you get a liquid chocolate consistency.
5. When the white chocolate is in a liquid consistency, pour it into a small container and use it to glue the candy.
5. Have fun decorating the chocolate skulls! We used different kind of candy in interesting shapes to decorate the eyes, nose and mouth, and also added chocolate chips and colored edible confetti in fun shapes like stars or triangles and glued them on top of the chocolate sugar skulls to decorate them.
TIP: Check out the video below to give you an idea of the materials we used. We got different types of candy to decorate the eyes, nose, and make the mouth. The candy we used for the mouth might be difficult to get, but you could easily use something like small pieces of gum or mints to make the teeth.
This is another technique we tried to make chocolate skulls inspired by the Day of the Dead. We used melted white chocolate and food coloring: How to Make Chocolate Skulls for Day of the Dead
The picture above is about another tutorial that we made last year, it will explain a detail how we made chocolate skulls using a different technique. We decorated them with melted white chocolate that we dyed with food coloring. It was a lot of fun!
They ended up looking cute, like the ones in the picture below. Here is the tutorial:
How to Make Chocolate Skulls for Day of the Dead
More Day of the Dead projects and ideas here:
