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Home made chocolates

Chocolates are the favorite dish of not only children but for almost everybody. Since doctors say not to eat too many chocolates which might spoil our teeth, we all tend to eat less but cant avoid. Festive season if we can make chocolates at home itself, we can have them as sweet and we can even give them to those who come to our home.

Things you Need:

·         Chocolate Bars

·         Chocolate Moulds

·         Kaju and Badam

·         Packing Wrapper

Preparation time : 20 min

We get ready chocolate bars in the market in the essence shops of general bazaar or begum bazaar or in any other essence shops. It is available in different types such as dark chocolate, light chocolate and milk chocolate. You can get these bars in different quantities such as Kilo and Half Kilo. The dark chocolate bar is a bit bitter than the normal chocolate, for those who prefer sweeter taste they can take the light one or mix with the dark chocolate as per your wish. Milk chocolate is a white bar, which is milky in taste. With this milky bar you make 2 layers of chocolate leaving a layer of normal or dark chocolate and the other as milk chocolate. You can pump in wafers’ or rice crisps or corn flakes or chocolate chips or any such item you are fond of with combination of chocolate

Preparation:

Step1:

Cut the bar in to pieces using a knife as below, so that the chocolates easily melt.

I have chosen to mix dark and Light in equal Quantities. The chocolate bar comes with 3 piece division in it so I have used one of each of them

Step2:

Yesss…!! Its time to Melt them up

Take two Bowls one wide in nature and the other tall in nature. When you place the tall bowl in broad one it should be able to stand straight. Take water upto half in the broad bowl and bring it to boiling point. Take the cut pieces of chocolate into the tall bowl and place it in the boiling water.

Make sure the chocolate in the bowl does not touch the water at all… other wise the chocolate cannot be stored for long time. You can refer to the below…!

tall bowl

Wide bowl with water filled upto half

chocolate in the tall bowl without touching water directly

The chocolate slowly melts down in few minutes. It becomes a thick fine paste. Keep stirring this mixture carefully so that the water in the below bowl does not fall into the inside bowl. See that all the lumps are melted.

Step3:

Moulds are used to give these chocolates a shape. There are different sizes and shapes available in the market. I have few of them below

 We can put the badam or kaju pieces in the moulds first and then pour this hot melted chocolate into the moulds using a spoon….

You can roast the slit badam on a pan with out using oil or ghee…just roast them on a slow flame

 You can taste this hot chocolate which is just amazing and I love that..you might like that too..!!

 ***after filling in the moulds make sure that you shake and hit the tray on the floor so that the air bubbles and the gaps get adjusted and the mixture settles down***

Step4 :

These moulds are to be placed in deep freeze for minimum of 5-8 Minutes and then take the moulds out and hit them in an opposite direction and there comes your chocolate in perfect shape…

Annnnnddd the chocolatesss are readyyyy…..

You can pack them up in a Wrapping paper or put them into a box and store them in a freezer….

You can use them in any small get togethers on a festival occasion or on birthday parties or for gifting and return gifting too as goodies....

Here are some pictures of other shapes and sizes of chocolates and wrapping styles…

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Sheetals Kitchen