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Osterhäsli Giessen
Encodo spent a whole afternoon pouring, painting and detailing chocolate bunnies for customers, partners and colleagues at a local chocolate-makers shop.
Step one: wash and disinfect your hands!
Urs putting on his plastic apron
Karin putting her apron on
Step two: Hot Chocolate Apéro!
Prost!
Our chocolate-rabbit instructor, Susanne
The finished product
Pascal, Marco and Remo listen carefully
Urs went the extra mile on his name tag
Stephan's pretty sure he knows how to make a pastry bag
Dani makes a hand-made pastry bag out of baking paper
We got this.
A tub full of white chocolate
Making rabbit eyes, nose and teeth
Cleaning out the rabbit molds
Dani fills a pastry bag with white chocolate
Karin fills a pastry bag with dark chocolate
Stephan fills in the nose, teeth and paws for his rabbit
Urs adds detail to his rabbit's hind feet
Remo makes rabbit eyes
Armin adds detail to his rabbit
Finger-painting with dark and white chocolate
A bucket of milk chocolate
Pascal finger-paints with chocolate
Remo finger-paints with white chocolate
A rabbit ready to pour
Marco fills a rabbit with chocolate
Dani searches for a fancier mold for his chocolate
Urs picks out a mold for his chocolate
Mixing up the white chocolate
Remo inspects a poured rabbit
Rabbits after pouring
Dani, Armin, Pascal and Urs are hard at work on round II
Armin cleans out the duckling mold he chose
Adding hearts and eyes
A whole bucket of dark chocolate
Remo scrapes a rabbit's feet before the final step
Marco sees if any rabbits need more scraping
Urs checks the poured molds
A waste of chocolate
Armin prepares the white-chocolate mold for clamping
Urs lets a mold drip-dry after pouring
Final step: Marco and Pascal put the rabbits in their bags
The finished product
A double-row of chocolate rabbits
Carefully remove the front part of the mold
Karin adds a ribbon to close off the bag
Marco carefully peels away another mold
The ducklings are finished!
Wheelbarrow rabbit ready for extraction
Karin puts the finishing touches on a rabbit package
Rows of rabbits, (almost) ready for shipping
Accidents happen
Boxes of wrapped rabbits
Apéro time!
Remo finishes the rice
Urs with a well-earned drink and snack
The apéro spread
This rabbit doesn't quite fit in his bag