Image: Homemade chocolates
Image by: Darwin Bel
Text by: Tanya Munshi
If someone offers you gourmet chocolates, relish the chocolates but don’t throw away the plastic moulds. You can use them again to make your own chocolates. Here’s how –
Ingredients:
- 300 gms/ 1 bowl of cooking chocolate chunks
- 100 gms/ 1/3rd bowl of coco butter
- 4 tsp – powdered sugar
- 1 small bowl – almonds, raisins, cashew all finely chopped
- Liqueur of your choice
- Mint oil
- Moulds
- Colorful foil paper
Method:
- In a microwave safe bowl add the coco butter and the chocolate chunks and heat them on low medium power for three to four minutes.
- You can stop the heating process in between to check whether the chocolate and coco butter are melting and give a stir.
- After completing the heating process, take it out from the microwave.
- Now mix the melted chocolate and coco butter well and add powdered sugar.
- Sift the sugar first, to prevent any lumps forming in the chocolate mixture.
- Since we add coco butter, there is no need to grease the moulds.
- Fill the moulds half with the liquid chocolate mix.
- You can now add 1 drop of mint oil or a liqueur of your choice.
- Now add some more melted chocolate on top.
- For other flavors, you can simply fill the chocolate completely in the mould and add a cashew for one, a raisin for another and an almond for another. It is entirely up to you what kind of flavors and fillings that you desire.
- Now place the chocolate filled mould in the deep freezer for 15 to 30 minutes.
- Tap the moulds from the bottom and the chocolates will come out with ease.
- You can wrap each chocolate with a different color foil paper, or simply serve it as an accompaniment with deserts. Better still, gift this to someone special.
Published in CookingGoddess.com, on July 6, 2007
Link: http://www.cookinggoddess.com/category/Recipes/Homemade-Chocolates/
Link: http://www.cookinggoddess.com/category/Recipes/Homemade-Chocolates/
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