Best recipe for chocolate that will harden when cooled…but is easy to use when melted?
Question by BreadCollision: Best recipe for chocolate that will harden when cooled…but is easy to use when melted?
I don’t want to use “chocolate” almond bark to make candies using melted chocolate. I tried melting milk chocolate chocolate chips and it just became a big chalky lump. Anyone have a recipe for homemade, from-scratch chocolate that will harden when cooled? I want to make various forms of chocolate bark treats with it. Thanks so much.
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Answer by lil miss blue eyes
Try using Nestle Milk Chocolate chocolate chips. Mix in a little milk and butter when the chips are melting, and they will harden just like homemade-difficult-to-work-with chocolate. Make sure that you melt it VERY slowly, otherwise you end up with the clumpy mess. This tastes great and is easy to work with.
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Use any type of chocolate morsels for baking (like Nestle, Ghiradelli, even the generic kinds will work). If you can, use a double boiler to melt the chocolate. Once melted, add a little bit of olive oil so the chocolate doesn’t start clummping right away.
I use this method all the time when making chocolate covered strawberries, bananas, and pretzels. Hope this helps.
your chocolate chips should work just fine,use 1/2 slice of paraffin in with 12 oz bag of chocolate chips when you are melting them,melt over a double boiler,however one drop of water in the chocolate will clump things up so be careful of splattering water when it is boiling,if the chocolate does get water in it you can add a fewdrops of vegetable oil and it should thin out again.I make christmas candy all the time using paraffin,that way you can use the real chocolate and it will taste great and it sets up nicely,you can get paraffin at the grocery store in the baking eisle