HANDMADE CHOCOLATES

Finally the most awaited one is here. If you’re someone like me who is tired of having the usual dairy milk and needs a change, you can try this out. It’s easy to make, and requires just few ingredients. I prefer working with chocolate compounds as they much easy to work with, but you can alternatively use cocoa powder, and cocoa butter.The best part about handmade chocolates is, the choice of ingredients and hence the flavor depends totally on you. If you like dark chocolates you can use more of dark compound. Or if you like white chocolates(something like milkybar) you can even use just the white compound. I personally prefer milk chocolates so I have kept the base ratio of 2:1 constant. Also I like making large quantities  at a time and experimenting with all the flavors. You can store these chocolates for about 2-3 months. I have enlisted most of the flavors below, any suggestions for improvement would be gladly welcomed. Also you can try your own flavors just tell me know how it was? Happy chocolates to youJ

Ingredients required-

·         Milk compound- 500 grams

·         Dark compound- 250 grams

·         Cream- 50 grams

·         Butter- 2 tsp

·         Salt- a pinch

Number of pieces made- 100

Method-
·         Break the two compounds into small pieces, add fresh cream and a pinch of salt to it. Melt all the ingredients together.
·         You can melt them in a oven. Keep it at 800 degree for 1 min and stir well. Or you can try indirect melting. Boil water in a saucepan and keep the bowl of chocolates on it, continuously stirring it.(Be careful chocolates get burned very quickly)
·         Mix your desired flavor to the chocolates and set it on a greased chocolate tray to cool for about 10 min. (you can grease it with butter. also You can try using ice tray if you fall short of chocolate trays)
·         Once it becomes hard take it out and your chocolates are ready. Store it in a cool, dry place. (compounds absorb and release heat very fast, so that they get cooled quickly and also they melt very quickly)

Different flavors you can try are-

1.  Add Rice balls about 10 grams  for the crackle effect
2. Caramelize Sugar in a separate pan and sandwich it in between two layers of chocolate for caramel flavor.
3.  Add freshly grated coconut to the mixture. Or wrap the chocolates in freshly grated coconut for coconut flavor.
4.  Add Nuts and dry fruits like cashew, raisins, almonds, pistachio, peanuts, walnuts etc. to the chocolate mixture for their respective crunchy nuty flavor.
5.  Add cornflakes to get some crunchiness in texture.

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P.S. you can divide the total mixture and add different flavors to different parts.