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1. Grate the chocolate and melt in the bain-marie – do not allow the temperature to exceed 50°.
2. Cut the cellophane into strips of about 10X10cm.
3. To ‘temper’ the chocolate, leave it to cool to 27/28° then re-heat to 31/32°.  This operation is necessary to prevent the cocoa butter from separating out from the cocoa mass.
4. Using a spatula, spread stripes of chocolate onto the prepared cellophane.  At this stage you can choose between making them  thicker or thinner and wider or narrower;  in practice the thicker the band the more curls you get while the thinner the band the more broken bits.
5. As soon as you have rolled out the chocolate, roll the cellophane to make tubes 1 to 2cm in diameter.  Leave to cool on the tray.
6. When the chocolate has hardened, unroll the cellophane.  Now you can make your curls or use the thickest as tubes provided you only rolled the cellophane once.

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These are great for all kinds of decoration and you can make lots of different sizes.

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