I made Litwick white chocolate mousse desserts!

These cylindrical white chocolate shells are filled with soft white chocolate and coconut mousse, and topped with colour-flame candles!

When I saw these chocolate candles on How to Cook That, I knew I had to try making them as Litwick for Halloween!

This project included some more firsts for me – tempering chocolate, shaping chocolate, and making mousse were all interesting new challenges. In the end, it took me over a week to complete this project, but I quite like the results!

Step-by-step and more photos below!

The first step was making the cylindrical shells. I somehow wound up making two really huge ones, and decided to make one more small one – and I’m glad I did! I had bought some acetate, and my partner cut it into strips in the sizes I wanted. Then I wrapped the acetate around some bottles in the sizes I wanted, and taped it together. For the small one, I used a Pokemon juice bottle we’d got from a vending machine in Japan! Then I just removed the bottle from the acetate.



Then came the time to temper the chocolate that would form the cylindrical shell. Tempering had always completely confused me, but basically, you heat, cool, and heat your chocolate, which ensures that when it fully cools, it hardens completely and won’t melt or fall apart on you. White chocolate is apparently the hardest to temper, and white it took me a really long time, it worked for me! I wound up having to tempter 3-4 batches of white chocolate in total, which is part of why this project took so long!

With my melted, tempered chocolate, I used an offset spatula to coat the insides of my acetate cylinders. Once it hardened, I looked for spots where the chocolate was too thin, and added more melted chocolate. The big ones wound up taking a LOT of chocolate, so I had to go out and buy a lot more of it!

To create the bases, I spread some chocolate on a piece of wax paper, and once it had firmed up a bit, I used a cookie cutter to cut a circle with the same diameter of the cylinder.

With the cylinders now completely cooled, I carefully removed the acetate. Unfortunately, I somehow got holes in them the first time, so I had to re-wrap them with acetate and add more chocolate! By the time I removed the acetate the second time, they were perfectly fine and quite strong, so it was time to attach the bases. I heated a tiny frying pan to warm and slightly melt the bottom of my cylinders – at first I put it in the frying pan itself, but that burned the chocolate, so I used the underside of it instead. The cylinders stuck quickly to the bases, and I improved the seal and closed any cracks at the bottom by melting the chocolate and adding a bit more and smoothing it out with my finger. Can’t have any leaks!

Then I made the mousse that would be the Litwick filling! I started by making a very thin ganache, and then added the rest of the ingredients until I got a white chocolate mousse (one without gelatin, which I appreciate)! My partner and I found the taste a bit bland, so we added coconut flavour and fine shredded coconut, which we liked a lot better and made for a more interesting texture. I carefully filled the Litwick almost to the top with my mousse!

I really wanted to add real candles, and I wanted them to be the real colours of Litwick and shiny Litwick! Of course not a single box of colour-flame candles had both purple and blue! So I settled for purple and green, and I stripped off some of the wax so only the wick would be poking out of the Litwick. This later proved to be a huge mistake.

I melted purple and blue candy melts, and spread that over the top of the mousse to seal it in, and placed one candle in the middle of each, ensuring only the wick was visible. Again, a mistake I would later regret.

But it was time to decorate! I melted the leftover white chocolate and let it cool a bit to make it thicker, and I placed it in a snap-seal bag to pipe on the melting wax effect at the top and bottom of each Litwick. I couldn’t quite give it the volume I wanted, but it certainly does look like wax! On a piece of wax paper, I piped on some teardrop shapes for the arms, and once they cooled I attached with melted white chocolate. I used candy melts to make the eyes and mouths, and added a little white chocolate “lip” over the mouths.

Then they were complete! I just had to photograph them and light ‘em up!

The first time, I tried to photograph these on my own with my partner’s camera and some basic instruction. The photos looked all right, but of course I couldn’t find any matches and had to run out and buy some. I got back, reset the camera, and lit up the small wicks poking out of the Litwick…only for the wicks to burn too quickly, melt the layer of purple/blue candy melts, and disappear into the mousse! And I didn’t even get any decent photos!

It took me 20 minutes of digging through the mousse to rescue all three of my (not-so-cheap) colour flame candles. I wound up having to break the layer of candy melts to get to them, and I even had to drain the mousse out of one of the big ones to retrieve the last candle!

Once all was well, I knew I had to rebuild them. I melted new candy melts and made a new layer of purple and blue, but this time I let way more of the colour-flame candles visibly stick out the top. It wasn’t my favourite look, but when my partner helped me with taking the photos, the candles lasted long enough to give us plenty of time before they could melt the candy melts!

Overall, I think these look super cute, if a bit too huge! I would definitely make them much smaller in the future, and ensure that enough of the candle is above the candy melts that it doesn’t cause any melting.

Thanks for reading!

