Home made chocolate slabs

Jem8472

Wow the chocs look great. What sort of choc did you use? I am going to try a bar of dairy milk next and see what that come out like.

Did you temper the chocolate?

tab1967

Hi all, have been reading this thread for a while now and they all look so good. Have a quick question how much chocolate do you need, I bought one of the silicone heart moulds from Tesco and was wondering how much chocolate i would need to make them. Thanks in advance.

FiFi_Mad_Mum

tab1967 wrote: »

Hi all, have been reading this thread for a while now and they all look so good. Have a quick question how much chocolate do you need, I bought one of the silicone heart moulds from Tesco and was wondering how much chocolate i would need to make them. Thanks in advance.

I used about 350g of chocolate and I also added pieces of banana flavour toffee, break up your chocolate into individual squares and if you want to 'ding' it remember to remove it and stir it every 20-30 seconds.
HTH FiFi

tab1967

Thank you FiFi that,s great, got a day off 2morra so will give it a go then.

qwiksave

So! The pictures did shrink after all, good. (For those of you that didn't know they were a lot bigger earlier).

Jem8472 wrote: »

Wow the chocs look great. What sort of choc did you use? I am going to try a bar of dairy milk next and see what that come out like.

Did you temper the chocolate?

The last lot I did was with Dairy Milk and they turned out fine. For this batch I used Thorntons chocolate chips made for chocolate fountains (someone on another thread recommended it as being of really good quality). But of course it turned out very runny (as it was for fountains) so I had to grate in some Tesco cooking chocolate to thicken it up. (Oops!) It worked (luckily!) though and still tasted good!

Because I use an electric Chocolate Treat Maker it sees to the temperature, but it does take half an hour. It then keeps the chocolate warm so you can put it in the moulds at your leisure. There's a similar looking model of chocolate maker on the website people were recommending earlier where they got the 3for2 moulds, I believe it is £20 there.

Valentines Day and Easter are really testing times for people watching their weight, there's just so much more chocolate around everywhere! (Sigh!)

LouBlue

qwiksave wrote: »

Valentines Day and Easter are really testing times for people watching their weight, there's so much more chocolate around everywhere! (Sigh!)

I hear ya. But will be good.

Bollox to electric chocolate maker and tempering. I am just going to wing it. :rotfl:

qwiksave

(For once (& once only! - I'm speechless! :rotfl: )

Rachie_B

LouBlue wrote: »

I hear ya. But will be good.

Bollox to electric chocolate maker and tempering. I am just going to wing it. :rotfl:

you are so brave .... or stupid :rotfl:

Jem8472

Well I am going to give it another go with tempering. I might buy a choclate melter, they look handy. Also been looking at buying molds so I can do little wedding favour chocs

qwiksave

Can't keep quiet for long (just ask my OH!)...

Even though I have one, I don't think its particularly necessary to have a Chocolate Heater/Treat Maker to make successful chocolate shapes - many people on this thread have made delicious looking chocolates using the bowl & saucepan or 'ping' microwave method.

But if you still really want one, the best advice would be to shop around, because as I said before, mine cost £14 and it looks exactly like the one I mentioned earlier that costs £20.

Anybody else made any chocolates today/tonight?...