Home made chocolate slabs

MrsTinks

Green and Black do dark and mint flavour?.... darn you! I'm trying to diet!!! :rotfl:

bunbun2

just made my first lot of heart chocs - not a great success! i bought some double chocolate on Friday and when I opened it to use realised it was milk chocolate with a runny centre. Thought I would try it anyway to see how the moulds worked. The shape is OK but they are more like fudge than choc - taste good but not what I wanted:D they are also not going to set hard and will melt as soon as I take them out of the fridge. I will buy some more choc and have another go!

qwiksave

This is why its useful to have trials... (but bad on our waistlines lol)

Here are mine (they are also trials because while photographing them I 'accidently' tried half of them for taste!



This one is my favourite - the silicone heart mould was from House of Fraser for £5! The heart plate was free with Flora margarine last year.


This is it from the side, it is more this colour, about 1cm thick

And my others:

Likkel ones

And finally:

And very tasty he was too!

As you can see, some shiny, some not so, could be to do with what chocolate you use too.

Good luck with your trials and 'proper' chocolate making attempts!

bunbun2

qwiksave wrote: »

This is why its useful to have trials... (but bad on our waistlines lol)

Here are mine (they are also trials because while photographing them I 'accidently' tried half of them for taste!



This one is my favourite - the silicone heart mould was from House of Fraser for £5! The heart plate was free with Flora margarine last year.


This is it from the side, it is more this colour, about 1cm thick

And my others:

Likkel ones

And finally:

And very tasty he was too!

As you can see, some shiny, some not so, could be to do with what chocolate you use too.

Good luck with your trials and proper chocolate making attempts!

that big one is fab. I love the little ones too, how did you do those?

bunbun2

how does everyone get the tops of their choc hearts flat, mine were very rounded? Also do you fill the moulds with choc or just half fill? More practise I think...

bunbun2

qwiksave
the last photo wasn't there when I posted my reply to you. have just seen it and he is cute:D

qwiksave

Er, sorry for the BIG size of these pics, I tried to resize them in photobucket but the ones already posted have still stayed the same!

bunbun2 wrote: »

how does everyone get the tops of their choc hearts flat, mine were very rounded? Also do you fill the moulds with choc or just half fill? More practise I think...

I personally only filled my heart mould a bit (1cm) (it was a cake mould). To get flatter choccies I think the secret is to tap the sides of the mould, like you do when you get the air bubbles out. This seems to flatten the chocolate in the mould. HTH.

The smaller choccies were made from plastic moulds that I got from a kit last easter from a delicatessen, including the cute chick.

dawnydee73

They are really good qwiksave, I might do some for Mother's day

Rachie_B

awww they are fab

esp like the I love you ones

LouBlue

qwiksave wrote: »

This is why its useful to have trials... (but bad on our waistlines lol)

Here are mine (they are also trials because while photographing them I 'accidently' tried half of them for taste!



This one is my favourite - the silicone heart mould was from House of Fraser for £5! The heart plate was free with Flora margarine last year.

They look fab! :T

tine wrote: »

Green and Black do dark and mint flavour?.... darn you! I'm trying to diet!!! :rotfl:

I am on one too! Well not a diet, just cutting back on naughties. Lost 6 1/2lbs since new years day, so it will be a BIG test.