How to make homemade chocolate?
Now in stores you can buy anything you like andwhat can we say about chocolate? It is now so much that when you go into the store, just your eyes run. Everyone can choose what he likes: white chocolate, milk chocolate, bitter chocolate, and with different fillings and fillings.
In this article, we suggest that you move away fromhabitual shopping chocolate, and make chocolate at home. "Why?" - you will say, "it's easier to go and buy." But, you see, because the home is always more useful, without any additives, preservatives and colorings. And such chocolate will bring you much more benefits.
How to make chocolate at home
- First, you will need to prepare forms,where you will pour chocolate. If you do not want to bother yourself, you can pour the finished chocolate into ordinary plates, and after it has solidified, you can just cut it and eat it. But if you want your chocolate to take a beautiful shape and deliver you not only taste, but also aesthetic pleasure, then use ice molds or prepare molds from chocolate sweets.
- Secondly, think about the filling. It can be candied fruits, dried fruits, waffle crumbs, nuts or something else. You can put it just as much as your heart desires. If you want the filling to be inside the chocolate, then when you pour it, make it in layers.
Well, now it's time to go to the home-made chocolate recipe. Just want to warn you that home made chocolate will be very different from the purchased one.
The basis of this chocolate is cocoa butter and cocoa beans. If you manage to get them, then your homemade chocolate will be the most, that neither is, real.
First option
Here's what you need:
- 1 part cocoa butter
- 2 parts of grated cocoa beans
- Honey or sugar syrup to taste.
Cooking method
How to make homemade chocolate? Take a saucepan with a thick bottom, put in it cocoa butter and grated cocoa beans. Put this mixture on a weak fire and stir constantly until the mixture becomes liquid. Attention! Can not boil! When the temperature of the mass is about 50 - 60 degrees, remove it from the heat, cool slightly and pour in sugar syrup or honey. Do not use sugar, because it can not dissolve completely. Next, we pour the chocolate mass into molds, cool it and put it in the refrigerator or freezer for solidification.
If you could not find cocoa butter and cocoa beans, do not get discouraged. You can prepare homemade chocolate according to another recipe. It will also be very tasty.
The second option
You will need
- 100 grams of cocoa powder
- 50 grams of butter
- 5 tablespoons of water or cream
- Sugar.
If you are preparing bitter chocolate, then useinstead of cream the water and put only 2 - 3 tablespoons of sugar. And if you prefer milk chocolate, then use fat cream and put 6-8 tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking method
Mix cream (or water), cocoa and sugar inA small saucepan and put it on a low fire. Stir constantly, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add butter to the chocolate mass, mix, and while the mixture is hot, pour it into molds. Cool, smooth and put your chocolate in the freezer so it hardens.
Now you know how to make homemade chocolate! Bon Appetit!
