Look at this: my first Halloween recipe in 3 years AND the first time anime KonoSuba has been featured here on The Small Adventurer! I’ve watched a LOT of different animes over the last year (I’ve watched a couple growing up, but nowhere as many over the last year!), including well-known ones and not-so-well-known ones, so I will try to include a variety of them in my content, as well as other TV shows and movies as usual.
KonoSuba was an anime I really liked because it was really funny! Humour isn’t something I usually look for in anime – at least, it’s not something that NEEDS to be a main part of the show – but I really liked it about KonoSuba, as well as many other things, of course. But I am NOT about spoiling things, so I won’t say too much. Just that this wizard (*not* witch!) hat belongs to Megumin – a fan favourite character 😉 Now, onto the recipe!
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YOU WILL NEED:
♡ Witch hat silicon mould (one I used is available here and here, other varieties are here and here)
♡ Milk chocolate melts/chips
♡ White chocolate melts/chips
♡ Glucose or corn syrup
♡ Three piping bags
♡ Chocolate food colour in red, orange, and yellow
♡ Regular red food colour
♡ Pipette
♡ Toothpick (optional, but helpful!)
DIRECTIONS:
1.Measure out 1/3 cup milk chocolate melts. Melt them either on the stove, or in the microwave using a microwave safe container, and pour the melted chocolate evenly into your witch hat mould. Gently grab your mould by the sides and hit it against your bench to make the chocolate flatten out. Wash and dry everything you just used, as you will need them again.
2. Carefully spoon out 1/2 tablespoon of glucose or corn syrup (use a butter knife to “cut off” any excess drips), place into a bowl. Add as many drops of regular red food colour and mix in with a spatula until you’re happy with the colour. Use two butter knifes, or very tiny spoons, to scoop small drops of your “blood” mixture onto the middle of each chocolate hat. You’ll most likely have some mixture left over. Let the blood mixture sit for a little while. Wash and dry everything you just used.
3. Measure out another 1/3 cup of milk chocolate melts and melt them how you did previously. Pour the melted chocolate evenly into your wizard hat mould, gently pick up the sides of your mould and shake it to flatten out the chocolate. Wash and dry everything you just used.
4. Grab three tall glasses and put your three piping bags in them, with the open ends of them hanging over the edge of them. Get a small metal bowl, and a regular bowl that can sit on top of that metal bowl with some room underneath; we’re going to create a double boiler sans a stove.
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5. Measure out 1/2 cup of white chocolate chocolate melts and put them in a small bowl. Use a kettle to boil some water and pour that into the metal bowl you got out, then place the bowl with the white chocolate inside it on top. Wait patiently for the chocolate to start to melt, then use a spatula to move it around to help speed up the process. You can always re-boil the kettle and add more hot water if needed, but I didn’t need to at all for the entire recipe!
6. Once the chocolate is completely melted, spoon out a very small amount into a ramekin and add as many drops of your yellow chocolate food colour until you’ve reached your desired shade of yellow. Then, pour your yellow chocolate into one of your piping bags. If it’s disposable, cut off the end, otherwise make sure it’s fitted with a round tip about the size of Wilton #3. Pipe out a yellow line along the bottom of every wizard hat, plus a small yellow line along the very top (which, with my mould, is slightly to the side, since the hat is slouched over). Allow to cool down and harden, and wash and dry everything you used to colour the chocolate.
7. Go back to your white chocolate and stir again with your spatula to ensure it’s still perfectly melted and smooth. I didn’t need to add anymore boiled water to my metal bowl underneath, but if you do, simply boil your kettle again and add more water! Spoon out roughly the same amount of white chocolate as you just did – maybe a bit more – into a fresh ramekin, and add a few drops of orange chocolate food colour. Mix in thoroughly until all the chocolate is coloured. I wasn’t able to achieve the exact shade I wanted as my white chocolate was more yellow than I would’ve liked, but I made do.
8. Once you’ve coloured your chocolate orange, pour it into a piping bag. If it’s disposable, cut off the end, otherwise make sure it’s fitted with a round tip about the size of Wilton #3. Go across every wizard hat and pipe a thicker line than the yellow one you just did above the “rim” of the hat, where it gets thinner. You can use my photos as a guide, although my orange chocolate is quite pale. Once you’ve finished, allow them to cool and harden whilst you wash and dry what you just used.
9. Make sure your orange chocolate has completely set before moving onto this step. Scoop about the same amount of melted white chocolate into a ramekin and add a few drops of red chocolate food colour. Mix in thoroughly, then pour into a piping bag. If it’s disposable, cut off the end, otherwise make sure it’s fitted with a round tip about the size of Wilton #3. Pipe zigzag lines along all the orange chocolate lines that you just piped, as well as two red chocolate dots above those said orange lines as well. Do the same for every wizard hat. Allow the chocolate to harden as you wash and dry everything you just used.
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10. Make sure your red chocolate has completely set before you move onto this step. Scoop out a very small amount of melted white chocolate into a clean ramekin and add a few drops of orange chocolate food colour. Mix in your food colour completely, then pour the chocolate into a piping bag. If it’s disposable, cut off the end, otherwise make sure it’s fitted with a round tip about the size of Wilton #1 or #2.
11. Little tip: having a toothpick nearby really came in handy for me for this part! Pipe one tiny “x” on each red chocolate dot. The toothpick can come in handy if you accidentally don’t pipe the “x” long enough, or if a tail hangs off the end so you can press it down, etc. Continue piping until every red dot has an orange “x” on it, then allow to harden while you wash everything you just used – then you’re finally done! 🎉
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Whew! I know that was a long one, but it really wasn’t actually hard to make. Just a bit of piping, waiting around, and cleaning 😅 If anyone here has actually seen KonoSuba, you’ll know that it is nowhere near a Halloween-esque anime at all, but since I made a wizard’s hat (that we all know everyone is going to call/see as a witch’s hat) – and it IS the time of year that people are sharing Halloween posts – I thought it would be fun to think outside the box and put a Halloween twist to this recipe 😋
Before you go, let me know: have YOU seen KonoSuba? If not, let me know what your favourite anime is! I’ll add it to my to-watch list 👇
Until next time,
Indya xx
