Home made chocolate slabs

nikki2804

My mum used to use cooking chocolate for the little moulds when I was small, was okay then. Can imagine it would be really REALLY sickly after a while though.
For cases etc try amazon and ebay. Sometimes the supermarkets and wilko etc have them.

shelly

nettles77 wrote: »

sorry theres too many pages to read thru so was just wondering does the cooking chocolate taste ok? also where can i buy the moulds? Seen something about tempering, whats all that about? thansk.

My local Poundland sells packs of small silicone cup cake type moulds, perfect for individual chocs. Also they have quite big butterfly moulds, perfect for a little girl.

xmascheer

Hi,
I was in Asda today and they were selling two large bars of chocolate for £1 but it was for cake toppings--sorry if i,m been thick but is this different from other chocolate and would it work in making the slabs with it??

alyssa_liss

xmascheer wrote: »

Hi,
I was in Asda today and they were selling two large bars of chocolate for £1 but it was for cake toppings--sorry if i,m been thick but is this different from other chocolate and would it work in making the slabs with it??

i believe you can use there 27p for 100g own chocolate tastes the same i think

ginnyknit

I find cake topping very sicly, tho the economy chocolate a few people have mentioned is very good and melts well. Technically you need high quality chocolate for cooking with but in our world the 27p a bar works quite well doesn't it guys?

getvis

There's nothing better than home made goodies!!! Great work!

oligeo

Has anyone seen the 'chocolate pizzas'? http://www.gourmetchocolatepizza.co.uk/
Like that one. I'm thinking they would be easy to make, put how would you package it? They are normally packaged in pizza boxes, but I don't know where you'd get something like that from, and I'm guessing they wouldn't be cheap.

Another thing I've been thinking about is those message chocolate cups, like thorntons do. http://www.thorntons.co.uk/ThorntonsSite/pages/servery/AlphabetTrufflesIntro.asp
I'm thinking about using those tiny petit four cases, brushing the edge with several layers of milk chocolate, then once set, filling with white, is it just chocolate in the middle??

Sarah

Pooky

oligeo wrote: »

Has anyone seen the 'chocolate pizzas'? http://www.gourmetchocolatepizza.co.uk/
Like that one. I'm thinking they would be easy to make, put how would you package it? They are normally packaged in pizza boxes, but I don't know where you'd get something like that from, and I'm guessing they wouldn't be cheap.

Another thing I've been thinking about is those message chocolate cups, like thorntons do. http://www.thorntons.co.uk/ThorntonsSite/pages/servery/AlphabetTrufflesIntro.asp
I'm thinking about using those tiny petit four cases, brushing the edge with several layers of milk chocolate, then once set, filling with white, is it just chocolate in the middle??

Sarah

Love the pizza! I'm sure you could just cut a circle of coloured card for the base and wrap in cellophane rather than by a box though.

As for the chocolate cups - they look fab too - they're called "alphabet truffles" though so I'm assuming it's actually more of a soft centre......how about making them with a pepper mint cream filling?

oligeo

Good idea for the pizza's pooky. I'm going to have a go at one this afternoon. I'll let you know how I get on.

I'm going to have a think about the alphabet truffle things too. I don't like peppermint & chocolate (even though they wouldn't actually be for me!), maybe orange & chocolate??

Sarah

nunnygirl

Been looking at chocolate pizzas for a while, but I've only ever seen them on FireBox

Chocolate Pizza