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...playing with chocolate.
Am off to a dance thingy this evening; it includes pot luck food, and I said I'd bring 'some sort of dessert'. I settled on chocolate cornflake clusters, since I remember my mother making them without too much difficulty.
Have discovered the art of tempering chocolate; if you heat chocolate too fast, it will set with a layer of dusty white fat on the outside, which is most unpleasant. So it needs to be tempered while heating to avoid this. The method I discovered online involves putting the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds, allowing it to cool to body temperature, and then repeating as neccessary.
The preperation of the clusters went without too much difficulty. For safety's sake, of course, I made sure to taste the mixture at many points in the process. Anyway, these are messy to make. There's pretty much no way to create the clusters without getting chocolate and cornflakes all over your hands. Yay!
Cornflake clusters are setting in the fridge right now. Mmmm, tasty.
Update: well, the bad news is that I wasn't the only one to think of chocolate-covered cornflakes. The good news is that mine were easily the superior ones. (I took a vote.) 8^)
Am off to a dance thingy this evening; it includes pot luck food, and I said I'd bring 'some sort of dessert'. I settled on chocolate cornflake clusters, since I remember my mother making them without too much difficulty.
Have discovered the art of tempering chocolate; if you heat chocolate too fast, it will set with a layer of dusty white fat on the outside, which is most unpleasant. So it needs to be tempered while heating to avoid this. The method I discovered online involves putting the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds, allowing it to cool to body temperature, and then repeating as neccessary.
The preperation of the clusters went without too much difficulty. For safety's sake, of course, I made sure to taste the mixture at many points in the process. Anyway, these are messy to make. There's pretty much no way to create the clusters without getting chocolate and cornflakes all over your hands. Yay!
Cornflake clusters are setting in the fridge right now. Mmmm, tasty.
Update: well, the bad news is that I wasn't the only one to think of chocolate-covered cornflakes. The good news is that mine were easily the superior ones. (I took a vote.) 8^)
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