Minor Edit: I would like to have to thank each and every one of you for each and every on these cakes. But I do not have the time - I've just started university, and I'm fortunate enough for these to have become extremely popular. I cannot spend all my time clearing out the favourites! So please, accept my heartfelt thanks NOW. They wouldn't be doing so well without you. I wouldn't have the DD without you. So thank you.

Now back to my main comments.

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EDIT 6: (I really need to re-do this, don't I?) The video tutorial is finally done, three years late. But done!

Playlist of all videos
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt1: Guidelines
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt2: Preparing Your Image
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt3: Outlines
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Pattern Making Pt4: Colouring
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 1: Preparing to Transfer
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 2: Image to Cake
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Transferring Pt 3: Dot-to-Dot
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 1: Preparation and Testing
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 2: Painting
Chocolate-Painting Tutorial - Painting Pt 3: Mixing and Outlines

EDIT 3: Given that the main query I get concerns the icing, and that it's a question I can't help much with, I'm very glad that somebody has found a good tutorial on how to make chocolate-fudge icing! ~SironaSelkie found this: [link] and seems fairly happy with the results. I hope that's helpful.

EDIT 2: Oh my gosh, thank you for the Daily Deviation! I just saw that I had a comment- and fav-spam in my box, started to get suspicious, and went to check the DD list - and there it was! I'm really honoured, and I hope that it's useful to lots of you out there. Many thanks to `Nyiana-Sama for the suggestion and `FantasyStock for the actual DD.

I'm afraid that there is no way I can cope with thanking you all individually for favourites on it right now. But please know that I really appreciate every single one, that I hope you have a use for it, and that I would love to know if you do use it.

My cakes:
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I would LOVE to see any cakes decorated using this technique! If anyone follows the tutorial and you take a photo, if you post a comment here or on the cake, I'll link all of them at the bottom of these comments. Looking forward to seeing them guys!

Whew! That took a long time.

This is the tutorial I made to accompany my birthday cake [link] which so many people liked. I really do love all you guys, and you make me feel a better artist. Anyway, VERY large file I must point out, I'm going to try and make it so you click the download button to the left of your screen to see it.

EDIT: I would like to say thank you ~hAtObAaKaQuAy for correcting me; the characters on the side are actually katakana, not kanji.

I apologise if anyone thinks that this is in the wrong category, but the only food and drink related tutorial category was in the Non-art gallery, and that pissed me off, as this is art. So I stick it in paintings since it's just painting with a different medium.

I hope that this tutorial is of some use to you, and I apologise for any mistakes I have made in the writing of this; I'm afraid that if I make a mistake I have to type the whole thing out again once I've left the editor, which sucks.

The tutorial (c) me *Lutra-Gem
Haninozuka Mitsukuni (c) Bisco Hatori

People who have followed this tutorial:
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Did (I quote) "Master chief dukin' it out wif the white ranger from the original power rangers....." This gal's bro ate the cake before she could photograph it. So that sucks. But she says that this tutorial DOES work using frosting/icing. She also says to make sure you have the colours you want for it ready made, especially the black.
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Abbreviated Tips from people who have used it:
On the Icing
~yumesenpai : Don't use Glace Royal/Royal Icing because you can't put the pin holes in it and it's hard to work with. It might work if you left it a day to set.
On the Colours
~icantthinkofaname-09 : Even better than baker's chocolate is Wilton melting chocolates. They're little chocolate discs that you can heat up in the microwave, so you don't need to use boiling water. They taste good and they make a really even consistency. [link] They also make all sorts of bright colored 'chocolates' (these ones taste like vanilla), so you don't even have to stick to chocolatey colors if you don't want to.
~Absolutley-Delish : White chocolate with food dye makes better colors is what I've found to work better. It's hard to make it just right.But this does work really well for batter like in white chocolate rainbow brownies or cake.
~YellowDaw : I have one more tip: if you don't have the "colored chocolate" you can also add food coloring to white chocolate to make different colors. I think it might depend on the food coloring. I once colored white chocolate with Wilton's color paste and it turned out fine. I think with chocolate you should use either paste or powder colors -liquid colors might make the chocolate grainy because they contain water.
~Zanreo : Don't melt more chocolate than you need. You don't actually need that much chocolate(especially if you have a small picture) and it's better to melt more if you need more, than melting more than you need - that's just a waste of good chocolate.