Home made Dark chocolate

Valentine's day is here. Are you ready to surprise your dear ones?? Lemme help you.

Why don't you try this easy, preservatives free Home made Dark chocolate recipe??

I have also added video recipe in Tamil.. check this out and surprise your kids who will be coming home tomorrow with their handmade valentine's day gifts from school.

Happy cooking..🎉🎊

Ingredients:

Powdered sugar      - 1 cup
Butter                        - 3/4 cup
Cocoa powder          - 3/4 cup
Milk powder             - 1/3 cup

You can check for video recipe in Tamil here

Preparatory works:

Powder sugar using a mixer grinder. Measure and take 1 cup of it .

Sieve cocoa powder, powdered sugar and milk powder together .

See to that butter is in room temperature.

Grease chocolate mould or a deep plate for pouring the chocolate mix once it is done.

Procedure:

We are going to use double boiling method for preparing this chocolate.

 For this we have to take a pan and fill it 3/4th with water. We have to place a bowl above that pan. When we boil water in the pan, the heat transfers to the bowl and thus things in the bowl gets cooked.

 We are using this method, since chocolate requires only lower temperature for cooking.

Heat the pan which has water .when the bowl which is above the pan becomes hot, reduce the flame and add butter to the bowl.

After the butter has melted, add sieved dry ingredients in small instances and keep on stirring .

The mix will get thick in just seconds. Switch off the flame and transfer it to either greased moulds or plates.

If you are transferring to plates , cut it into required sizes using a greased knife before placing it in refrigerator.

Let it sit in fridge for 2 to 3 hours and your chocolates are ready  to enjoy.

Notes:

Taking exact measurement of ingredients is very essential in this recipe.

Since we are using butter, the chocolate mix will be thick only. If you want it to be free flowing ( so that  easy to pour in moulds ) then you have to replace butter with same amount of coconut oil. But coconut oil smell will be there in chocolates.  If you are using coconut oil, then see to that it is pure and hand pressed.

Since it's dark chocolate it will have slightly bitter taste. If you are looking for making milk chocolate  use cocoa powder - 1/3 cup and milk powder - 3/4 cup in the above recipe.

Homemade Milk Powder - Cocoa Powder Chocolate

This is the recipe for preparing Original Home made chocolate with Milk powder and Cocoa powder. You can prepare it in just 10 minutes. Try these Chocolates at home and surprise your kids!!

Preparation Time : 20 minutes

Ingredients:

Milk Powder          - 100 gm ( Little less than 1 cup)
Sugar                      - 1/2 cup
Water                      - 1/4 cup
Butter                      - 1/4 cup
Cocoa Powder         - 2 tbsp
Vanilla Essence       - 1 tsp

Procedure:

• Sieve well Milk powder and Cocoa powder together. Grease chocolate molds with Butter. Even if you don't have chocolate mold, just grease a deep plate with Butter.
• Take a heavy bottom pan. Add sugar and water to it. Cook it in medium flame till it reaches one string consistency. To check One string consistency, touch sugar syrup between your thumb and fore finger. When you  extend your fingers, it must form a string in between. 
• After it reaches one string consistency, add  butter and Vanilla essence to the pan.
• Switch off the flame after butter melts.
• Add sieved milk powder and cocoa powder to the pan immediately after switching it off. Mix it well and transfer it to greased molds or plate.
• Let chocolates cool and set completely. It will take around 2 hours to set. If you are using deep plate for setting chocolates, be sure to cut it into chunks with greased knife while chocolate is cooling. Enjoy your melting Home made Chocolates!!!