Home made chocolate slabs

gillian0808

Hi all,
Just wanted to give you a tip I found when making these slabs.
I used the top of a Tupperware lid to make the chocolate bases.

I used square and rectangular ones and they were perfect as the lid provides a sort of "frame" around the edge.
They were easy to transport into the fridge for setting and did not sick.
I just turned them over onto the worktop and peeled the Tupperware lid off. Perfect!

And if one happen to break, well you'll just have to eat the evidence wont you!

G x (Santa's no.1 Fan!)

ginnyknit

Have just found a use for the tiny silicon cupcake thingies from poundland, home made choccies will work really well as you can peel the cases off and have perfect choccies- hope no one else has suggested this already cos I haven't read all the thread yet !

Welsh_Poppy

Oooh I cant wait to try these slabs....great ideas on tupperware and poundland....better get myself in there to see if we have them:-)

Chris25

ginnyknit wrote: »

Have just found a use for the tiny silicon cupcake thingies from poundland, home made choccies will work really well as you can peel the cases off and have perfect choccies- hope no one else has suggested this already cos I haven't read all the thread yet !

don't worry ginnyknit, it wouldn't have mattered - always better to have a tip twice than not at all

another use for the silicon cupcakes is to use a brush and paint melted chocolate (not too hot or it's too runny) completely inside the mould - you need a couple of goes to make it quite thick - then peel away the silicon and you have a chocolate case to fill with either small truffles, M&Ms or chocolate mousse

wanna-save-more

another use for the silicon cupcakes is to use a brush and paint melted chocolate (not too hot or it's too runny) completely inside the mould - you need a couple of goes to make it quite thick - then peel away the silicon and you have a chocolate case to fill with either small truffles, M&Ms or chocolate mousse

Excellent idea,
Thank you:beer:
xx

gabyjane

Wow these are a great idea thanks..dh loves these and as they are not cheap i am going to try and recreate one for his birthday in Nov! it is my friends birthday soon and have decided to try and make 4 of the little mixed ones so she has a choice of chocolate!! can't wait to try now.
Thanks

starmummy_3

Oh i have these cases but never thought of making chocolate cup cases.

thankyou

simpywimpy

does anyone know the best place to buy decent chocolate for gifts? Ive heard of modelling chocolate being used but no idea where you would buy it

irishgirl62

do you have to put some sort of oil on the moulds first?

Welsh_Poppy

I just bought some in poundland today what a bit of luck thank you:-)
Superdrug and Wilkinson have the gold coins on BOGOF
candy canes 99p in wilkinsons
as you can see I have made a start lol