Chocolate Leaves

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp. butter
• 2 oz. baker's chocolate (either sweet or semi-sweet)
• 20 real leaves (don't use dead leaves)

Instructions:

1. Put the butter and baker's chocolate into the top of a double boiler and melt them, mixing them together into a paste.
2. Wash your leaves under cold water. Dry them between two paper towels. Put them on a cookie sheet.
3. Using a butter knife, spread the chocolate paste onto the bottoms of the leaves, about 1/4 inch thick or thicker. Put the chocolate leaves back on the cookie sheet, chocolate side up.
4. Put the tray in the refrigerator or freezer. When the chocolate is hard, take them out and carefully peel the leaves away from the chocolate.
5. Your chocolate leaves can either be eaten as a candy, or used as terrific cake decorations.