Chocolates with their own hands. How to make chocolates at home

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Unfortunately, store-bought chocolates contain not so much he althy chocolate as harmful additives. To get a pure product, you need not be too lazy and make exceptional chocolates with your own hands. Then you will definitely know their composition. It is good for the whole family and especially for children.

Chocolate is definitely he althy

Sweets - connoisseurs of chocolate - can enjoy their favorite delicacy. The myth about the dangers of chocolate dispelled! Moreover, its undoubted benefits have been scientifically proven. After carefully studying the chemical composition of the basis of chocolate - cocoa beans - scientists came to the conclusion that chocolate:

• slows down the aging of the body, prevents the development of cancer, cleanses the body of "harmful" radicals due to the presence of a large number of antioxidants;
• is a valuable preventive of cardiovascular disease;
• prevents the development of tartar;
• activates mental activity;
• due to serotonin (happiness hormone) improves mood, fights againststress;
• stimulates sexual arousal;
• increases the immunity of the whole organism.

The main thing is not to consume chocolate excessively, but in the "right" amount: approximately 50-60 g per day. The following article will tell you how to make chocolates yourself. Read the recipes carefully and enjoy the dessert.

Recipe 1. Everything is simple and affordable

It's very easy and very inexpensive to make your own chocolates at home.

Ingredients: 220-250 g cocoa powder, 150 g cow butter, half a glass of water, 150 ml milk, 30 g flour (some advise replacing flour with baby food or powdered milk), 100-130 g sugar.

Cooking process: combine finely chopped butter with cocoa powder, mix until a homogeneous paste is obtained (with a spoon or blender). Pour water into a saucepan and heat over a fire, not letting it boil. Add chocolate paste, milk, sugar and flour to hot water. Mix everything thoroughly until the lumps disappear. Put the mass in a food container, the bottom and walls of which are covered with parchment or foil. Put the container in the freezer until the sweet dessert completely hardens. Carefully remove the frozen mass to a cutting board and cut into portioned sweets. Homemade chocolates are ready!

Recipe 2. Delicacy - homemade truffles

It's very easy to make your own chocolates using this recipe. The kids will be happy to help sculpt sweets.

Ingredients: 1 bar of extra-bitter or just bitter chocolate, 65 ml of heavy cream (35% is better), 60 g of powdered sugar, a tablespoon of alcohol (rum or cognac), 1 tablespoon each of chopped cashew nuts and almonds, 3 tablespoons cocoa powder.

Cooking process: put finely chopped chocolate in a saucepan in a water bath. Mix the cream with powdered sugar, heat well and beat thoroughly. Whisking constantly, pour the sweet cream into the melted chocolate in a thin stream. Continue to beat the resulting cream until smooth, add alcohol and nuts. Mix well again. Put in the refrigerator (NOT in the freezer!) for about an hour and a half. The mass should become the consistency of soft plasticine. Remove the mass from the refrigerator, pour cocoa powder into a saucer. With hands moistened with cold water, use a teaspoon to form chocolate balls, roll them in cocoa powder. Transfer to a clean, dry cutting board and refrigerate again for 1 hour. In an hour, treat yourself and treat others!

Recipe 3. This will be a little more difficult

Here you have to try a little more to make amazing chocolates with your own hands. Recipes are not always easy.

Ingredients: 1 cup cocoa butter, cup cocoa powder, 1/2 cup runny honey, half teaspoon real vanilla extract, toasted chopped almonds,mint or orange extract to taste.

Cooking process: melt cocoa butter in a double boiler or over low heat in a steam bath. Care must be taken that the saucepan with cocoa butter does not touch the water in a large saucepan (double bottom method). When the cocoa butter is completely melted, remove it from heat and add cocoa powder, honey, vanilla or other flavorings. Mix everything thoroughly until a smooth and shiny mass is obtained. Do not allow liquid to enter this cream, as this will disrupt its texture. The hostess should be careful with wet hands or wet dishes. Put the resulting mass (called ganache in culinary terminology) into a large container lined with parchment or into special silicone molds. Refrigerate for several hours. With this recipe, you will get real chocolates at home!

Note. Cocoa butter can be replaced with coconut oil.

Recipe 4. Homemade truffles in white chocolate

The sweets prepared according to this recipe look just wonderful. Guests may not even believe that you made these chocolates with your own hands.

Ingredients: 200 g dark dark chocolate, 2/3 cup heavy cream (33-35%), 1 tablespoon cow butter, less than half a glass of Nutella, 1 white chocolate bar, 1 tablespoon sunflower oil (odorless), grated chocolate for sprinkling.

Cooking process: break bitter chocolate into pieces, add cream, butter andNutella. Melt everything in a steam bath. Cool down. Cover with cling film or a lid and refrigerate for a couple of hours. From the chilled mass, manually form balls, which are put in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. While the truffles are hardening, melt white chocolate in a steam bath, add vegetable oil to it. Prick each truffle with a toothpick and bathe it in white chocolate. Fold white sweets on a plane lined with parchment. Sprinkle top with grated chocolate. Again, put the sweets in the refrigerator for 40 minutes. After that, eat with pleasure.

Some tips

To make delicious chocolates with your own hands, you need to follow some simple rules.

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  All products must be of good quality.

• Do not bring the liquid to a boil. It is necessary to work with hot, but not boiled mass.
• Alcohol and nuts can be removed from the recipe at the discretion of the hostess. This will not affect the taste of sweets, it will just change a little. For experiment, you can add mint, orange or lemon extract, vanilla and other flavors.
• Be sure to use NOT sugar, but only powdered sugar. Its quantity in the composition of sweets can be changed.
• Before you put the container with the chocolate mass in the refrigerator for solidification, it must be covered with a lid or cling film to avoid the admixture of foreign odors.