Home made chocolate slabs

Emms

Managed to get the heart shaped mould some peeps have mentioned from ikea in Edinburgh today and a star one too. They had loads of them. They also have the ones in the below pics.

The Jigsaw ones are quite cool. All only £1 each





Emma

Quackers

Emms wrote: »

Managed to get the heart shaped mould some peeps have mentioned from ikea in Edinburgh today and a star one too. They had loads of them. They also have the ones in the below pics.

The Jigsaw ones are quite cool. All only £1 each

Emma

We got the jigsaw & star ones today too

They're fab aren't they?

Although we are keeping our fingers crossed that the stars all 'pop' out in one piece

bexy43

Little_Star wrote: »

I bought my tray in Sainsburys for £1

I made some up yesterday, it was so much fun!

This look great!!

Whats the red stuff on the top?

LouBlue

bexy43 wrote: »

This look great!!

Whats the red stuff on the top?

Crushed pink sugar rose petals, I think. I asked Little Star for the recipe.

Edinburghlass_2

The trays p;ictured, are the ones in the bottom row bottle shaped? If so perhaps you could do alcohol based chocolates, or don't both with the chocolate and just freeze vodka :rotfl:

NikNak_3

Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't think Vodka freezes :rotfl:

Emms

Lol neither it does. Ah well you will just need to drink it as is.

Emma

hels102

I'm sat here in work and getting sooo excited about making my chocolate slab! although slightly worried as I'm no cook and could honestly burn toast!
Right I need to get the following:
1. Loaf tin what size?
2. 2 bars of 200g chocolate

Can someone just give me step by step instructions on what I need to do, sorry to sound so thick, also I like the idea on malteasers what do I do just break them up and put them in? Going to make one for my OH for his bday on valentines day! :j

jamtart6

ooh im getting excited about making this for my OH for valentines day!!

found this on the hotel chocolate website and am going to enlist my mother who is a trained confectioner (!!!) to get me swirling. COULD be a disaster, but I'll show it to you whatever happens!!! i have got little jelly hearts for the top too, so could end up a swirling lumpy mess. but it was made with love so thats all that counts!!

brownjasperdog

Jamtart6, that's the exact same picture that inspired my Christmas chocolate slabs! I did three in a heart shaped silicon mould. The one for my Mum and Dad had milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate down the middle then chopped dried apricots, raisins and chopped brazil nuts scattered artfully on top! My sister doesn't like dark chocolate so for hers I did a bit of white chocolate swirled out from one of the curves of the heart, and aero bubbles balls on top! The third one was for kids so I put magic stars and white chocolate buttons on top. I was certainly wishing I had a confectioner on hand to give me some tips while I was making mine, but actually they looked nice and I was really pleased with them!
When you've done yours be sure and tell us the best technique for doing the swirls please!