Valentine's Day Chocolate Mold (Customizable)

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While it's a lovely gift, be prepared: working with melted chocolate is a dirty and tedious job. This is a mold to produce chocolate with custom text engraved into. A nice gift designed for Valentine's Day. Open it in customizer (Open in Customizer button) to engrave your custom text! The engraving is 0.6mm high, so use an appropriate layer height: 0.3mm, 0.2mm, 0.15mm or 0.1mm. The shell's wall is 0.8mm thick (designed for a 0.4mm nozzle diameter). The mold has two parts, printed together: the shell and an inner part. You should be able to break/separate them after printing (there's a 0.5mm gap between them). Molding Put a plate in the refrigerator, and let it cool down. Melt the chocolate. Experts say you shouldn't heat it above 33.8 Celsius. Put the inner part and the shell together. Pour the melted chocolate into it. Move it onto the cold plate in the refrigerator; leave it there for about 10 minutes while the chocolate crystallizes and hardens back. Let the chocolate side look upward to get a nicer surface on the bottom (so leave it in the same orientation as it was). When cooled down, grip the shell with your fingernails, and push the inner part gently until the chocolate pops out. Make sure not to break the cold and rigid chocolate. By removing the inner part, the engraved text reveals itself. Repeat. 90g of chocolate is just enough for three hearts. Butter: it makes separation easier, but you'll end up with a better surface finish without it. Use it only if you have problems pushing the chocolate out of its shell.