Chocolate might be a PMS-fix in its most basic form, but it can also be used to create edible yet stellar works of what can only be described as art. These chocolate geodes have been created over a period of six months by 20-year-old Alex Yeatts and 22-year-old Abby Wilcox.
Two students in a chocolate making class at the Culinary Institute of America, they were inspired by a chocolate geode made by their professor, Chef Peter Greweling.
For the uninitiated, geodes are basically cavities inside rocks, which are lined with crystals like amethyst or quartz. This gorgeous formation is what Yeatts and Wilcox tried to replicate inside an egg made of chocolate, with a little help from their professor.
They poured tempered chocolate into and egg-shaped mould, and used the principles of sugar chemistry to form the crystals within the geode. Similar to making rock candy, the hardened sugar came out looking like sparkly crystals, by using concentrated sugar with purple and orange colouring.
The best part is, through this months-long experiment, the two had no idea how the geode would actually look when they cracked it open, because they couldnât see, so it was all down to careful calculations, rotating the chocolate âegg.â Yeatts told This Insider, “During the process, you don’t really know what’s going on inside the eggs, you know they’re growing, but you don’t really know what they’re gonna look like until you crack them open.”
However, the end result was spectacular, because when the giant geodesâone of them weighing around 25 kilos â was cracked open, one could see the stunning insides of the culinary work of art. And while they donât seem like the kind of chocolates you can just pop into your mouth, the pairâs Instagram feed is full of people begging them to create smaller versions for sale. Whether they do so or not remains to be seen, as Abby is now a cake decorator, and Alex plans to open his own bakery.
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