chocolatey goodness

Saturday, April 7, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
Filed under cooking and recipes, stuff n nonsense, tutorial

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This is what I did this afternoon:

I had two very eager (and greedy) helpers of course. Once we had used up our Easter moulds (must buy more for next year) I hunted around for anything else that was suitable. The arrows, “donut” shape and stars are from those silicone rubber shape ice cube trays and the numbers were made using some biscuit/sculpey cutters.

We had fun adding crushed Violet Crumble, crushed nuts, and hundreds and thousands.

Making these is easy - first get yourself a metal bowl (if possible, plastic would do) and break up your chocolate into small pieces, or use the “melts” that come in bud form, and put them in the bowl. The bowl needs to fit snugly over the open saucepan.

You might want to get creative and sprinkle hundreds and thousands, crushed nuts etc into the mould first, or pour some chocolate in, then sprinkle, then more chocolate for a layered effect. You can also layer white and milk chocolate by letting the first layer set a bit then add the second.

To melt the chocolate just get a saucepan of water and boil it, then take it off the heat. Put your bowl of chocolate on top of the water and mix and mix until it all melts. Yum.

Taste a bit, fend off the greedy children helpers and then pour what is left into your moulds. Don’t worry too much about the inevitable mess as you pour, just get the moulds filled and then do your best to wipe or scrape around the edges.

Let them set for about 20 mins and pop/wrestle them out, take photos for your blog, clean up all the messy chocolate everywhere (or let your helpers loose and worry about their teeth later) and then put your feet up with a handmade chocolate. Don’t forget to send the helpers outside for a run around to get out some of the excess energy that eating all that chocolate gave them.

Enjoy! Happy Easter!