Home made chocolate slabs

qwiksave

nunnygirl wrote: »

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

Chocolate Pizza

£17.95!! :eek: Far better to try and make them yourself!

They also sell them at gourmetchocolatepizza - see link above.

irishgirl62

oligeo wrote: »

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

thorton truffles looks lovely this was posted by wannna savemore I wonder if it would work if you used this method and let it harden before pouring difffernet colour chocolate in

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

oligeo

I'm wondering if making a truffle mix (ie double cream mixed with melted chocolate), poured into a chocolate case would work. To make truffles you let it harden, but if you could pour it into the chocolate whilst it was still warm, it may work. Not too warm though, else you might ruin the chocolate case.

Sarah

gabyjane

OMG the pizzas are genius..why didnt ti think of that!! dh's 2 fave things (apart from me!) are pizza and choc so that is such a fab pressie..he has already devoured my choc slab!!..the boxes should be quite easy to get from say pizza hut/express or a local takeaway at a cheapish price..we have one donw the rd from us and our friend owns it so next time im passing im going to ask for one!..spar also has these..worth asking me thinks!

pig_let_cool

Hey, i came on here to ask if anyone had tried making the pizzas as i just found my firebox catealogue lol

Anyway i found this tutorial for a kind of pizza box HERE Im thinking a pizza In a cute decorated box (like in that link)
Would that work?

Also how are people going about cutting it into slices? I havent done any chocolate slabs in agesssss so was wondering whether it would work to cut it before its completely solid but not liquid..when its quite soft in that inbetween stage?

gabyjane

Hey pig_let_cool thankyou for that idea it is a fab demo on how to make them..im thinking a homemade one would be so much nicer than a bought/asked for one from takeaway one!! so will try this out!
as for the cutting i guess using a pizza cutter at a certain point would work but i am not sure of the time of when to do it tbh..maybe someone will know..
Thanks

gabyjane

Me again! well was too impatient so have just whipped one up here at the desk in 2 mins! looks cool SO have decided to do a really nice one for my friends birthday to put her mini homemade choc slab in as have some lovely card in the garage!! thanks ladies.

irishgirl62

i am loving the chocolate pizzzas!! found thislinks while googling

http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/ilc/2000/1000/pizza.html

irishgirl62

thanks pifletitcool for the link and I clicked onthe gallery and wow some wonderful pizza boxes there!

Claire_Bear

There's a recipe for Mini Pizza Cookies in my Cookie cookbook where you bake little plain cookies, spread it with red icing and either shredded marzipan or grated white chocolate to resemble cheese, plus things like sliced glace cherries to look like tomato, and any other 'toppings' you could think of. They're a pretty good alternative to the chocolate pizzas