Chocolate Honeycomb Ice Cream Bears - Made With 3D Printed Moulds
Introduction: Chocolate Honeycomb Ice Cream Bears - Made With 3D Printed Moulds
What's better than ice cream bars? Ice cream bears!
We know that bears love honey, so what better flavour than honeycomb for a chocolate covered ice cream bear?
These ice cream bears are filled with honeycomb milk ice cream and covered in honeycomb and milk chocolate with honeycomb white chocolate details.
I didn't have an ice cream bar mould and wanted a specific shape, so I decided to 3d print a mould and cutters for the details. I created the mould and cutters with Adobe Illustrator and Tinkercad.
I've included the stl files for the cutters and moulds, so you could skip over the steps where the files are created and just use the files to print the cutters and mould. You could also use store bought ice cream and honeycomb.
I really enjoyed making these ice cream bears. I hope you enjoy the Instructable. It's my first one, so bear with me.
Supplies
For the moulds:
A 3d printer
Pla Filament
Cling Wrap
Popsicle sticks
For the Honeycomb: I used about a quater of the honeycomb, so you could half the recipe.
200g Sugar
75g Golden syrup (You could substitute glucose syrup or corn syrup.)
32g Honey
35g Water
9g Bicarbonate of soda
For the Ice Cream Base: Makes about 500ml
2 cups (500ml) Full Cream Milk
1/8 cup (30ml) Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup (125ml) Skim Milk Powder
For the chocolate coating and details:
80g white chocolate
240g milk chocolate
55g coconut oil
tools:
Candy thermometer
A container for dipping the ice cream in the chocolate (I used a glass)
Skewers
Baking paper (Parchment paper)
Small offset spatula
Whisk
Medium sized pot
Spatula
Spoons
Knives
Bowls
Cutting Board
Strainer
Pastry brush
Step 1: Create the Mould and Cutters.
1. Draw the bear in Illustrator and export png files for use in Tinkercad.
I've attached the exported png files as well as a pdf of the Adobe Illustrator file. The pdf can be opened and edited in Illustrator or another vector graphics application.
1. Draw the bear using simple shapes.
2. I realised that I could use the snout for the ears, so I ended up with 4 shapes for cutters - the body, the snout, an eye and the bears stomach. I also created a fill of the bear's body to use as the base of the mould.
3. Make the fill of the shapes clear and the stroke 0.5mm
4. Outline the strokes (object-path-outline strokes)
5. Remove the inside part of the second body shape to create the fill.
6. Export the shapes as png files by selecting each shape individually and then going to file-export selection.
Step 2: Create the Cutters and Mould in Tinkercad
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Import the svg files into Tinkercad one by one by clicking on import and selecting the svg file from your computer or dragging it into the box.
2. Select "Art"
3. Make sure the width and height of each shape is correct by selecting the shape in illustrator and checking the width and height.
4. By default the shapes are imported extruded with a height of 10mm. Leave the cutters (body, tummy, snout/ear and eye) like this.
5. Duplicate the body cutter and change the height to 20mm. This is for the sides of the mould.
6. Change the height of the base (filled shape) to 1mm.
7. Centre the base and the 20mm body cutter with one another.
8. Group the Base and 20mm body cutter to create one solid shape. This is the ice cream bear mould.
9. Create a box with width 10mm (width of my popsicle stick) and height 10.1mm (half of the heigt of the mould + half the thickness of the popsicle stick) and set it to be a hole. Align the box with the center and top of the mould object, so that it creates a hole for the popsicle stick (see image).
10. Group the box and the mould object.
11. Export each of the objects as an stl file by selecting the object, clicking export and selecting stl. 110