Hand Crafted leaves(with chocolate)

Try this beautiful handcrafted leaves which can be used in decorating cakes/cupcakes/pudding/any desserts.

Ingredients:

•  Chocolate chips/any chocolate of your choice
•  Leaves

Process:

1) Prepare any cake of your choice-preferably a layered cake because these leaves look great on layered cakes.

 2) Heat some water over stove in a saucepan.

 3) Put chocolate chips/chocolate of your choice over the sauce pan and let it melt.It shouldn't take more than a minute. Stir in between.
    DON'T OVER HEAT THE CHOCOLATE.

 4) Mix the melted chocolate thoroughly and let it cool.Don't let it sit for long time it becomes hard.
If it had become hard heat it again.

 5) Take leaves of any shape of your choice and wash them thoroughly.Wash twice/thrice until you are sure they are very clean.
 6) Dry them using a paper towel.

 7) Use backside of the leaf.

 8) Put the chocolate on the leaf using a painting brush/spoon/hand. But,make sure it doesn't go beyond the edges of the leaf.

 9) Similarly do for all the leaves and keep them in freezer for 2-3 minutes(until they are set). 

 10) Peel the chocolate slowly and gently away from the leaf.

 11) Once they are all done place them over the cake/pudding. Prepare few extra leaves sometimes they might break. :)