Now, get out your parchment paper and cut off a strip. Place your protected drawing on a cookie sheet, and the parchment over the drawing. If you have some magnets, these are great for securing the parchment so that it doesn't move around or roll on you, but you could probably use tape or something heavy.



As you can see, the drawing is a little hard to see through the paper. I think if I had this to do over again, I'd get Travis to fill in the lines so they were darker and easier to make out.



Once you're all set up, get tracing. And tracing. And tracing.



Trace until you become a crazy person. The chocolate figures are really fragile, so it's not a matter of whether some break, but rather of how many. Make extras.



Keep an eye on the consistency of your melted chocolate while your work. The heat from your hands will delay it cooling down on you, but eventually, it will. Once it starts getting difficult to squeeze, empty out the bag as well as you can into a bowl and re-nuke it.



Slide your finished figures onto a cookie sheet to set, and once they're good and set up, gently (GENTLY!) remove them from the parchment paper. They should come right off. Set them aside, somewhere where they won't get jostled or eaten.



