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There are many things you can do with chocolate. Anything that you doing with chocolate, if it entails melting it definitely use a double broiler. You can melt it and drizzle it on a cake or cookie as decoration or you could melt chocolate and paint on any object you want to make a copy of, just insure you have covered the object with spray shortening. Of course make sure the shortening spray won’t damage the object. Once dry, remove the chocolate from the object. Or you could melt chocolate and dip a blown-up balloon in it. Spread a little chocolate on a piece of waxed paper on a cookie sheet and set the dipped balloon in it, upright. Once dry pop the balloon and you have an eatable ice cream bowl. Fill with ice cream and top with whipped cream and a cherry. Clean up is a breeze because you only have the serving spoon and the spoons everyone ate with. Or if you could get a square block of chocolate and carve whatever you want, for instance, a jack-o-lantern or a christmas tree or and easter egg for a table setting. You can always get some colored candy coating to paint them the colors you want. Or you can place melted chocolate into a decorating tube and pipe whatever design you want onto wax paper covered cookie sheet, place them into a refrigerator to harden and then peel paper off to place the pieces on what ever you are decorating. Bake your favorite cupcake then dip them into melted chocolate and let cool to harden. This is especially good if you want to make sure you don’t make mistakes when writing on a cake. Any mistakes you make can be remelted to be used to decorate something else.