Petit Four Deguise

Deguise are cute little desserts that are disguised as something else. Usually it is a sugar dessert that looks like fruit, or animals, or whatever. In this case tuxedo strawberries are really easy and also really cute play on making the strawberry dressed up (no pun, I promise)

Since there isn't really a formula for this item I'll throw out some pointers:

• Pate glace does not give such a hard mouth feel to it when the chocolate dries or sets up. Because of that it is actually preferred to a tempered chocolate.
• White pate glace does not dip too well so you might need to dip it twice, just make sure the layers dry before re dipping.
• "Wash" the strawberries like you would mushrooms, with a wet paper towel. You want to clean it without removing the texture that the chocolate is going to grab on to.

Need:

White pate glace, chocolate pate glace, melted chocolate, strawberries

MOP:

• Wash strawberries, dry before use
• Dip the strawberries in white pate glace (shirt). Let it set up before dipping a second time. When you set the strawberry down try to let the excess chocolate drip off to avoid getting large foots. You will also want to pick up the strawberries and move them to help not create foots (pools of chocolate on the bottom).
•  Dip on an angle, then on the other angle with chocolate (jacket)
• Use a fine tipped piping bag, or parchment cone works best to draw a bow with two connecting triangles, or a bow tie with a small diamond and then an elongated diamond. If you piped a bow tie give the shirt three buttons.

You can also easily dip and decorate other fruit or dried fruit in this same style. Here dried apricots are dipped to resemble little cookies. And below the strawberry is given a corsage out of a cut apricot, a bride, and a groomsman in the background.