Method of making chocolate candy sculpture of photo image

Claim 1

A method of sculpting a facial image from a photo onto a chocolate candy comprising the steps: placing the photo front side downward on a trans-illumination table sculpting the facial image by tracing selected features and outline of the facial image onto the rear side of the photo, thus forming an adapted image, photo-etching said adapted image onto a die plate, pressing said etched surface of said die plate against a sheet of aluminum foil thereby embossing said adapted photo image onto the foil, repeating the pressing step to create an array defining at least one row of said embossments on a single foil sheet, preparing a mold for molding chocolate candies, the mold having a plurality of cavities corresponding in position and size to said array of embossments and being open at the top and bottom, securing said embossed foil to said mold said foil being oriented with the embossed surface top most to close said top of the mold, inverting said mold and pouring liquid chocolate therein, hardening said chocolate and removing said mold thus leaving said foil with an array of chocolate candies attached thereto and portions of foil exposed between said candies, preparing a tray with a plurality of recesses corresponding in position and size to said array, each recess having side walls with top edges, a closed bottom and an open top, applying an adhesive to said top edges, positioning said array of candies into said array of recesses with said exposed foil portions contacting the adhesive on said top edges and becoming secured thereto thus closing each candy within one recess, and cutting said tray along certain adhered areas thus separating said tray into a plurality of separate closed cups each containing a single sculpted chocolate candy the top surface of each cup being the embossed foil.

Claim 2

A method of sculpting a facial image from a photo onto a chocolate candy comprising the steps: placing the photo front side downward on a trans-illumination table sculpting the facial image by tracing selected features and outline of the facial image onto the rear side of the photo, thus forming an adapted image, photo-etching said adapted image onto a die plate, pressing said etched surface of said die plate against a sheet of aluminum foil thereby embossing said adapted photo image onto the foil, repeating the pressing step to create an array defining at least one row of said embossments on a single foil sheet, preparing a mold for molding chocolate candies, the mold having a plurality of cavities corresponding in position and size to said array of embossments and being open at the top and bottom, securing said embossed foil to said mold said foil being oriented with the embossed surface top most to close said top of the mold, inverting said mold and pouring liquid chocolate therein, hardening said chocolate and removing said mold thus leaving said foil with an array of chocolate candies attached thereto and portions of foil exposed between said candies, preparing a tray with a plurality of recesses corresponding in position and size to said array, each recess having side walls with top edges, a closed bottom and an open top, applying an adhesive to said top edges, positioning said array of candies into said array of recesses with said exposed foil portions contacting the adhesive on said top edges and becoming secured thereto thus closing each candy within one recess, and cutting said tray along certain adhered areas thus separating said tray into a plurality of separate closed cups each containing a single sculpted chocolate candy the top surface of each cup being the embossed foil.

Claim 6

A method of providing a sculptured image onto a chocolate candy from a photo comprising the steps of tracing selected features and outlines of the photo image onto the rear side of the photo to form an adapted image, photo etching said adapted image onto a die plate, pressing a sheet of foil against said photo-etched die plate to create a plurality of embossments of said adapted image on said foil with each embossment surrounded by and separated from adjacent embossments by an exposed marginal strip of said foil, providing a mold for molding the chocolate candies wherein the mold has a plurality of cavities each corresponding in size and position to said embossments and being open at both of the top and bottom ends, closing one of said ends of each cavity by securing said embossed foil thereto with the embossed image oriented outward of the cavity, pouring liquid chocolate into the other of said ends of each cavity, hardening said chocolate, and separating the mold from the chocolate with the foil remaining attached to said molded chocolate candy to form an array, the method comprising the further steps of providing a tray having a plurality of recesses to correspond in position and size to said array of molded candies attached to said foil, each recess having side walls with top edges, a closed bottom and an open top, applying an adhesive to said top edges, positioning said array of candies into the array of recesses with said exposed marginal strips of foil contacting the adhesive on the top edges and becoming secured thereto, thus closing each candy within one recess.

Claim 7

A method of providing a sculptured image onto a chocolate candy from a photo comprising the steps of tracing selected features and outlines of the photo image onto the rear side of the photo to form an adapted image, photo etching said adapted image onto a die plate, pressing a sheet of foil against said photo-etched die plate to create a plurality of embossments of said adapted image on said foil with each embossment surrounded by and separated from adjacent embossments by an exposed marginal strip of said foil, providing a mold for molding the chocolate candies wherein the mold has a plurality of cavities each corresponding in size and position to said embossments and being open at both of the top and bottom ends, closing one of said ends of each cavity by securing said embossed foil thereto with the embossed image oriented outward of the cavity, pouring liquid chocolate into the other of said ends of each cavity, hardening said chocolate, and separating the mold from the chocolate with the foil remaining attached to said molded chocolate candy to form an array, the method comprising the further steps of providing a tray having a plurality of recesses to correspond in position and size to said array of molded candies attached to said foil, each recess having side walls with top edges, a closed bottom and an open top, applying an adhesive to said top edges, positioning said array of candies into the array of recesses with said exposed marginal strips of foil contacting the adhesive on the top edges and becoming secured thereto, thus closing each candy within one recess.