Chocolate Lego
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It was sometime last year that I first came up with the idea of combining two of my favourite things - choclate and Lego - but didn’t really know where to start. I knew I’d need some kind of mold, but never got around to working out the best way to make one.
And then I discovered Lego Ice Cube Trays and immediately knew they’d be perfect for what I wanted. Unfortunately, the Lego shop doesn’t sell the trays in the UK, but a quick search of eBay and I found one.
My plan was simple. Instead of filling them with water, I’d just use melted chocolate. And - much to my amazement and delight - it actually worked.
My Chocolate Lego did contain a few imperfections, but I think that just adds to the character.
The process was very simple:
1. Melt the chocolate. The best way to melt chocolate is in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water. That way you can control the temperature so the chocolate melts evenly and won’t burn. You can use any chocolate for making your bricks, but I found dark chocolate works best simply because it’s harder than milk or white chocolate.
2. Spoon or pour the chocolate into the mold.
3. Use a plastic spatula to smooth the chocolate into the mold, making sure to push it into the corners. Make sure the chocolate is exactly level with the top of the mold to give the bricks a nice flat, even base.
4. Put it into the fridge to set. I recommend leaving it overnight to make sure the chocolate is solid all the way through. This will make it much easier to remove from the mold.
5. Once set, simply push your chocolate lego out of the tray. I found the bricks came out very easily as the tray is made of soft rubber. If you need to, use a sharp knife to trim off any excess chocolate from the bricks.
Building With Chocolate Lego
You may have noticed the obvious drawback of making chocolate Lego in this way. Because the bricks are solid, you can’t ‘click’ it together like real Lego. But this is chocolate, and even if you could click it together, you’d probably never get it apart anyway!
The best way to build with these bricks is simply to treat them like proper bricks - i.e. use a cement to stick them together. By ‘cement’, I do of course mean icing/frosting. Pretty much any icing will do, but why not try Simon’s recipe for chocolate fudge icing.
Taking it Further
Making Chocolate Lego this way is incredibly easy, and once you have a supply of bricks, there’s no end to what you can create. You could use different combinations of dark, milk and white chocolate - or even add a few drops of food colouring to white chocolate to make coloured bricks.
So why not get building and let us know what you come up with. There may even be a special prize if anyone manages to create a Chocolate Lego Dalek Cake…
Posted by Dom on 07 Sep 2007 at 10:09 AM
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September 7, 2007 : 1:53pm
How clever! I know Ikea sells lots of those rubbery ice cube mold thingies that I should now go buy with a new purpose in mind.
September 7, 2007 : 4:38pm
Oh my god!
It’s an under-11’s dream!
September 8, 2007 : 1:09pm
Nice, but can you build stuff like this with it…
http://www.brickartist.com/gallery.html
September 10, 2007 : 1:11am
Well done Dom - ain’t it great what an intelligent mind can do when it’s in need of chocolate? I showed this to my eight year old who was in awe, responding with “Cool AS!” so you should now take this to Lego and Cadbury’s and see what kind of dream product can be made with it
September 12, 2007 : 5:14pm
If you had two molds you could put the second one at the top making round holes at the bottom of the bricks as they set.
September 13, 2007 : 9:37pm
Before you fill the chocolate into the form, make several layers of chocolate with a brush. Prevents bubbles.
September 13, 2007 : 9:44pm
Ah - a world of potential opens up :-) How about gelatin buildings - lit up from the inside?! “stained glass” legos….
September 13, 2007 : 9:44pm
If you a more authentic brick, use real lego bricks to stamp the indentation into the bottom of the chocolate brick before cooling-they may then be stackable.
The alternative is to make like easter eggs and fill the mould and then tip upside down leaving just shell.
September 13, 2007 : 10:03pm
Yeah, I’d certainly considered using real lego bricks to make indentations on the bottom. I’m sure if you want real accuracy, you could actually make your own molds from real lego bricks too.
September 14, 2007 : 9:09pm
Oh wow, that’s so cool! What a great idea! You could do a chocolate house for Christmas instead of Gingerbread using gumdrops for people heads. Coo.
September 17, 2007 : 6:26pm
This is brilliant! My boys are going to love it :)
October 5, 2007 : 2:56am
Great stuff. I’m adding a link to my Squiddoo page on chocolate. http://www.squidoo.com/chocoholics This will be very popular!
October 9, 2007 : 5:04pm
And… the chocolate won’t …. melt ??
November 2, 2007 : 11:28am
Heyy Everyone At CHOCABLOG..
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Where can i get some chocolate lego for regular chocolatey goodness? xxxxxx
November 11, 2007 : 7:29pm
Hiya,
I think your chocolate Lego idea is brilliant. I don’t think I would be any good at building stuff because it just looks so yummy. I would just make them and eat them!
December 19, 2007 : 7:51pm
this an amazing idea for making eating chcoclate even more fun!!! but might get a bit more messy unless your care ful
but it is very good