Best recipe for chocolate that will harden when cooled…but is easy to use when melted?
Question by BreadCollision: Best recipe for chocolate that will harden when cooled…but is easy to use when melted?
I don’t want to use “chocolate” almond bark to make candies using melted chocolate. I tried melting milk chocolate chocolate chips and it just became a big chalky lump. Anyone have a recipe for homemade, from-scratch chocolate that will harden when cooled? I want to make various forms of chocolate bark treats with it. Thanks so much.
Best answer:
Answer by lil miss blue eyes
Try using Nestle Milk Chocolate chocolate chips. Mix in a little milk and butter when the chips are melting, and they will harden just like homemade-difficult-to-work-with chocolate. Make sure that you melt it VERY slowly, otherwise you end up with the clumpy mess. This tastes great and is easy to work with.
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Chocolate: The Sweet History
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With the same satisfying style that flavored CANDY, Beth Kimmerle returns for another trip into America’s scrumptious past with CHOCOLATE.This richly illustrated celebration of our favorite indulgence is beautifully presented with pho-tographs, vintage packaging, and candy graphics that bring to life the truly sweet history of an age-old delicacy. Delve into the detailed stories of well-loved chocolate companies as Kimmerle profiles America’s top chocolate makers and discovers some new chocolatiers creating a stir in the industry. Learn the history, discover the European roots, and read the fabled stories behind this American obsession. Whether you prefer dark or white, truffles or cup-cakes, enthusiasts will delight in this delicious diary of all things chocolate.
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World Reviews
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Before Columbus’s fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or chocolate. Initially dismissed as dry leaves and an odd Indian drink, these two commodities came to conquer Europe on a scale unsurpassed by any other American resource or product. A fascinating story of contact, exploration, and exchange in the Atlantic world, Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures traces the ways in which these two goods of the Americas both changed and were changed by Europe.
Focusing on the Spanish Empire, Marcy Norton investigates how tobacco and chocolate became material and symbolic links to the pre-Hispanic past for colonized Indians and colonizing Europeans alike. Botanical ambassadors of the American continent, they also profoundly affected Europe. Tobacco, once condemned as proof of Indian diabolism, became the constant companion of clergymen and the single largest source of state revenue in Spain. Before coffee or tea became popular in Europe, chocolate was the drink that energized the fatigued and uplifted the depressed. However, no one could quite forget the pagan past of tobacco and chocolate, despite their apparent Europeanization: physicians relied on Mesoamerican medical systems for their understanding of tobacco; theologians looked to Aztec precedent to decide whether chocolate drinking violated Lenten fasts.
The struggle of scientists, theologians, and aficionados alike to reconcile notions of European superiority with the fact of American influence shaped key modern developments ranging from natural history to secularization. Norton considers the material, social, and cultural interaction between Europe and the Americas with historical depth and insight that goes beyond the portrayal of Columbian exchange simply as a matter of exploitation, infection, and conquest.
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Organic Facial Mask – Antiaging, Nourishing – Chocolate
Organic Facial Mask – Antiaging, Nourishing – Chocolate
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Chocolates – The Modern Drug And Its Ancient Roots
It may come as a shocker to find out that one of our most favorite treats is found to be not good for our health, mostly the sugary ones. Chocolate is what I am referring to. With an average of 12 pounds of chocolate a regular person consumes annually in the United States, you can gauge how much danger this unhealthy caffeine fueled treat brings to millions of people. Let us look back into a little bit of history in order to become enlightened as to what dark chocolate has that will serve people beneficial. Chocolates can date back to around the time of 600 AD when Mayan Indians were the main holders and owners of cocoa plantations around the famous Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. The Mayans were the predecessors of the Aztecs who created a certain chocolate drink that they called ‘xocoatl’ that was later known as ‘chocoatl’ which were derived from the cocoa beans that are produced from cocoa trees. This drink chocolate drink has been added with vanilla and many ancient spices had the consistency of honey. It was consumed only in liquid form during this time.
The arrival of Europeans paved the way to more advancements and breakthroughs in terms of chocolate development. They were astounded to see chocolate to be served in its purest and rawest form. This was able to change during the early 1800s during the time when a certain Dutchman who goes by the name of Coenrad Jahannes van Houten was able to discover that adding alkali-potash to the beans before they are being roasted tends to have an acid neutralizing effect.
This was coined to be the dutching process and it posed a big problem since the process removed the most essential parts of the dark chocolate known as flavonoids. These substances have an effect that fights free radicals and are considered antioxidants that slow the aging process of our bodies. It is said to be true that the healthiest chocolates are in its most raw form which unalkalized. Chocolate contains little or no caffeine at all which is hard for people to realize since it is one really good food that counters sleepiness.
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Chocolate Cards – Good Freebies for Corporate Fund Raisers
Fund raising events that are sponsored by big corporations is sure to be a creative event and requires a whole lot of excellent time management skills. Lots of companies do enjoy and organize these fund raising events to be able to raise funds that will benefit a cause that will increase awareness of people about it. According to a research made by Giving USA, a total of $14.5 billion has been gathered and collected by corporate donations in 2008 alone. The end part of deciding as to who will receive the donations, (may it be a community services group or a charitable organizations) every little detail must be planned well though. Teamwork is also very essential in order to make this certain event a very successful one. People are able to attain success by doling out simple items such as light pens, company t-shirts or even chocolate business cards all throughout the event, just to entice people.
A certain basic requirement for successful corporate fund raising events is to have a goal as to how much money the organizers intend to collect. It is also very important to be able to set out attainable goals that will surely push the organizers to plan the event properly. It is also helps in a sense that limited resources are geared well in order to obtain the maximum results.
One must also make sure that enough and adequate time is available for the event to be prepared well for. A well thought out plan can be formulated if coupled with an ample amount of time. This will allow planners and organizers to go through every little detail that needs to be given attention. Proper and keen advertisement about the event in the locale like community centers, schools and other public areas in order to maximize the funds that are going to be collected and just be able to reach to a greater number of attendees.
Finally, it would help if certain items are to be sold and auctioned in the event as to really add an extra amount of cash in the said fund raising event.
