How to make homemade chocolate bars
Have you considered making your own chocolates at home? Surely you are often curious to try some of those chocolates that carry the most glamorous labels, you want to try chocolate with various ingredients, or you want to do some detail for your diners on a holiday. Making homemade chocolate bars is easy, affordable, and really fun trying different flavors!
Today we bring you a wonderful recipe to start making your own chocolate at home , and we propose different combinations so that you can continue experimenting with a thousand and one more flavors.
If you are one of those people who are not satisfied with simply eating chocolate, but also enjoy looking for new flavors, we have the ideal mold for you: the Boska chocolate bar mold.
With this pack you can make up to 7 chocolate bars at a time with the beautiful silicone mould. In addition, the kit includes 14 gold foil wrappers so you can wrap and preserve your chocolate bars giving them a chic and professional touch at the same time. And it also includes the paper wrapper, on which you can write the flavor or a personal message; as well as the brand's stickers so that your chocolate does not miss a single detail.
It is a perfect way to surprise your family, friends, colleagues and your closest chocolatiers.
Chocolate and coconut bars
Ingredients
- 200g coconut oil
- 100 g grated cocoa
- 3 tablespoons of honey
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation
For the chocolate base:
- In a saucepan, heat the oil gently and add the cocoa, honey and vanilla extract, stirring constantly.
- When the mixture is homogeneous and all the ingredients have been well incorporated, it is time to pour the chocolate mixture into the silicone mold and let it cool in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
The chocolate will already taste like coconut, but we encourage you to add various decorations. Thus, optionally, once you have the chocolate base made, you can add other ingredients to give your chocolate bars an extra touch of flavor, such as: dried coconut flakes, grated orange peel, a little butter peanut, some chopped walnuts, a little ground cinnamon on top… Let your imagination run wild!
You can also mix , in the chocolate, a few tablespoons of puffed rice, chopped dried strawberries, chopped hazelnuts... Think about what flavors you want to discover that you think will combine well with coconut, and try integrating it with the base recipe or as a topping. bar decoration.
Remember that with the set you can make dark chocolate, milk chocolate or white chocolate bars . You just have to melt your chocolates or mixtures of them. (You can help with some cream, so that it is shiny and melts well). Then, to make bars, you can mix it or decorate it with:
- Pieces of nuts (of all kinds, from hazelnuts to almonds, pistachios, cashews...
- Remember that the salt flakes decorate and create a magnificent contrast with the chocolate.
- Assorted dried fruits: pineapple, coconut, orange, banana, strawberries, cherries ... There are so many fruits that go well with the taste of chocolate!
- You can infuse the chocolate with some tea (infuse the cream that you will add to the chocolate) or add a touch of some liquor . There are also many extracts you can add, from green scents like mint to sweeter flavors like vanilla.
- Play with the spices : from cinnamon to pepper, do you dare to try?
- Inside and out : remember that you can use these ingredients and flavors to mix them with the melted chocolate before cooling it in the mold, as well as use them to decorate your bars. Or a combination of rods of them!
Remember that the Boska set has a great advantage: you can easily make 7 equal bars, as it allows you to make different bars in the easiest way, to be able to test which ingredients combine best with your palate.
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*You can use the same recipe for the chocolate base to make chocolates, but remember that the world of chocolates is a bit more complex, but with the Boska mold it will be very easy to make them. You can make filled chocolates, or with different types of chocolates. I really encourage you to try it too. It is a unique gift and it will be exceptional on you!
