Chocolates..... anyone have recipes?!
Chocolates..... anyone have recipes?
I want to make chocolates with my neice, I have the molds, anyone have any good chocolate recipes?
Answers:
You can make truffles. I don't know about molded chocolate though.
For truffles I heat two cups of whipping cream. Do not let boil. In a metal bowl place four and a half cups of high quality chocolate, broken into small bits. (You can use chocolate chips if you want.) When cream is very hot, gently bubbling on edges of pan but not a rolling boil, pour over chocolate and stir to make sure all chocolate is dissolved. Add a couple of table spoons of butter (real, unsalted butter) and stir to mix with chocolate.
Pour into a jellyroll pan (come call a cookie sheet. A large pan with sides about an inch high on all four sides.) refrigerate for about 30 minutes or longer.
Prepare another jellyroll pan with parchment. Get pan of chocolate out of fridge and using a melon baller or small cookie dropper scoop out small balls and place on parchment. Return to fridge for a bit. Melt another couple of cups of chocolate over a double boiler until melted.
Take chocolate out of fridge and one at a time pick up a ball and place in melted chocolate (you don't want the chocolate hot, just melted) roll around in your hand to coat and place back on parchment. At this point you can roll the truffles in anything you like. Chopped pecans, coconut, shaved chocolate, any other chopped nuts, what ever you desire.
I know this sound like a lot to do but really it is very, very simple and very delicious.
Note: I wanted to expound on the post before mine. Place parchment on baking sheet, line parchment with tiny pretzels and place unwrapped Rollo on each. Place in oven until just about to melt. Maybe two or three minutes at 350. Remove from oven and press Rollo down into pretzel by placing a whole pecan piece on each. These are great and keep well. They are called Salty Turtles.