This Antique Large Easter Bunny Rabbit Chocolate Mold With Steel Framework is beautiful and unique! It is 12 1/4 inches tall and 5 1/4 inches wide (at it’s widest). It weighs approximately 3.1 lbs. It opens and closes well. SA 13159 051824 137.5. The preparing of confections from chocolate. Involves the techniques of tempering, molding and sculpting. Tempering is a heat treatment method performed on chocolate involving heating and cooling the chocolate to result in desired characteristics like shininess of the chocolate or’snap’, the way it breaks. Molding is a design technique used in making chocolate pieces that are of a certain shape by taking liquid chocolate and pouring it into a mold and letting it harden. Is a type of three-dimensional artwork that may involve using molds and pieces of chocolate, and decorating the piece with designs in chocolate. The first chocolate molds showed up in France in the 1830s. You are responsible to read the entire description. Most items are insured. Brought to you by Antiques1000go.