not love chocolate is simply impossible!This delightfully delicious dessert is not only captured the hearts of little sweet tooth.Even held in this life people can not deny myself in this little weakness.Technology of preparation of chocolate is fairly complex, but it is not a hindrance for home cooking, the burning desire to cook chocolate with your hands in your own kitchen.Preparation of this delicacy at home kitchen allows you to experiment with stuffing, dessert, hardness, shape and even taste.But first things first.
As from cocoa to make chocolate?
Culinary cunning women by trial and error created a huge number of recipes for homemade sweets.Here is one of them.The main ingredients for the preparation of this tasty treat are:
- cocoa powder;
- butter;
- sugar.
Prepare chocolate with their hands on this recipe is quite simple.Certain weight of each component does not exist.Bookmark products conducted by eye, but it must be remembered that even the consistency of liquid chocolate should resemble a thick cream.The hardness of the product, and its sweetness depend on the amount of cocoa powder added: the greater the amount of cocoa is added, the more bitter is a solid and the finished dessert.
Most often, when preparing chocolate with your hands, using the classic butter, and sometimes spread.Ideally, you should buy cocoa butter, which can be found on the shelves of major supermarkets.If this is not possible, it is best to use butter as a spread gives a bad taste the finished delicacy.
How to make chocolate with your hands: the cooking process
basis homemade goodies is butter: the more its original weight, the more delicious weight to yield.The oil should be chopped into small pieces and then melted in a saucepan.When it boils, it should add the sugar and cocoa powder.Get the right consistency, let the chocolate mixture simmer for a bit (just 2-3 minutes).Then remove the bowl from the heat and let the mixture cool slightly.After cooling, it was placed in the refrigerator for several hours, where it hardens completely.
How to make chocolate from cocoa, we understand.But not everyone is like the bitter taste of this delicacy, so try to make a dairy dessert.
recipe for milk chocolate
Milk chocolate has a more delicate flavor than the classic.Ingredient composition of goodies is virtually identical to the classic recipe.Additionally, the composition of the mixture is injected milk, and be sure to comply with certain proportions.
To make chocolate milk, we need the following products:
- butter - 50 grams;
- milk - 2 tablespoons;
- cocoa powder - 100 grams;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.
first step is to heat the milk to a temperature of about 60-70 degrees, add the appropriate number of sugar and stir.Then, melt the butter.Can this be done on the stove or use a water bath.Once the butter is completely melted, add the sweetened milk and gently fall asleep cocoa mixture, stirring constantly to avoid lumps formed.Thoroughly mix all the ingredients, cook the mixture over medium heat for a few minutes.As practice shows, it is enough 2-3 minutes.Then, the finished product should be put into the refrigerator, pre-cool the mixture.
Now you know how to make chocolate milk, and can treat this tasty dessert all your friends.
few tips to treat
turned more delicious, it is to adopt some useful tips:
1. The finished chocolate mixture can be cooled not only in the freezer, but just on the top shelf of the refrigerator.In this case, the ready to treat softer in consistency.
2. To diversify the taste of some homemade chocolate, you can add vanilla.
3. To make the product more useful, sometimes sugar is replaced with honey.But as the honey can not be heated too much, otherwise it will lose its beneficial properties, it is added to the mixture after the cooking process.Once the chocolate mixture has cooled sufficiently, you can add honey and mix the resulting mass.
4. To the mixture a more uniform, it is best to mix the products use a blender.
shape and filling
Even if you cook the chocolate with your own hands, it does not mean that your delicacy will be flat pancake ridiculous or just plain lump.It is not necessary to give up a beautiful decoration of your culinary delights.It is possible to use conventional molds for making ice.
now on supermarket shelves there are many different molds, allowing to cook pieces of chocolate by hand.
filling for homemade goodies depends entirely on your imagination.If you rely on the standard fillers, it is, of course, nuts.You can use the classic almonds or hazelnuts, cashews or peanuts.There are many solutions.Nuts can lay a whole, and can shatter.
If you plan to submit a treat in the form of bricks, it can be filled with such sweet coconut wafer or chip.An unusual option of filling the home of chocolate will be the use of dried fruit.The crushed dried apricots or prunes help to neutralize the taste too sweet dessert, and make it more useful.
not only delicious, but also useful
Now that you know how to make chocolate from cocoa, it is not necessary to run to the store to buy plitochki favorite goodies.In addition, a home version of the Sweet Dreams more useful than an analog magazine.Why is that?All are used in the preparation of dessert ingredients, natural, absence of various stabilizers and flavor enhancers.
Experiment amaze your friends and loved ones with unusual tastes homemade chocolate.Bon Appetit!
