My "Recipes": "Andrew’s Chocolate Creature"

I have not done an episode of the My "Recipes" series for a long time. This is episode five, Andrew’s Chocolate Creature:

You need:

 Ghirardelli Chocolate.

Vanilla Cream.

How to make it:

Melt and mold the chocolate into a round and medium sized head.

Make two big black eyes, but no nose or hair, because that will spoil it and ruin the fun.

Make a chubby body.

The eyes are black and have vanilla cream in the middle.

Cook how other chocolate teddies, bears, lion’s etc are cooked.

Have fun! Eat well!

My verdict: Oh dear, where do I start on this one? To begin with, the “creature” appears to be a limbless torso with a head without any features. There is no specified cake mix, so it appears the majority of the recipe consists of melted, moulded chocolate.

As no other ingredients have been listed, there is no way to know what the creature’s “eyes” are supposed to be made out of other than moulding more chocolate in the place of eyes or carving sockets into the head (the latter does not sound appealing in cooking). I also do not see the relevance of vanilla cream in this recipe.

Finally, since this recipe says that the creature is made out of melted chocolate, I guess the chocolate would have to set for eyes and vanilla cream to be applied. As such, cooking it would just melt it again (not to mention that the instruction “Cook how other chocolate teddies, bears, lion’s etc are cooked” is unhelpful if the reader does not know how any of them are cooked to begin with).

It could be a nice recipe if it was fleshed out, but under current instructions it is a mess.