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Even vegan or sugar-free: This is how you can make chocolate yourself
You can also make chocolate yourself – and refine it individually
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Chocolate is undoubtedly one of the most popular treats. It doesn’t necessarily have to be unhealthy: You can make vegan, sugar-free or unusual chocolate yourself.
Homemade usually tastes best: Many people are familiar with this statement. But you can’t easily prepare everything yourself at home, such as chocolate – or can you? We will tell you how you can make chocolate yourself and not only customize it according to your individual taste, but also make it healthier.
Make chocolate yourself: the advantages
We often buy chocolate that only contains traces of cocoa, but lots of sugar. Milk chocolate, in particular, is not the best choice for a snack: It usually consists of 35 to 50 percent cocoa, the rest is mainly sugar and milk – and brings calories with it. Dark chocolate, i.e. dark and bitter chocolate, on the other hand, consists of around 70 to 99 percent cocoa and is therefore less high in calories. If you want to create a healthier but tasty alternative to conventional chocolate from the shelves, you should ideally use a lot of cocoa and then refine this dark chocolate with ingredients such as nuts, dried berries or spices.
Make your own chocolate: you need it
To make chocolate yourself at home, you need three ingredients for the basic recipe: cocoa powder and cocoa butter as well as sweeteners. Suitable for the latter are (solid pipe or coconut blossom) sugar, agave syrup or something else. Cocoa (high in cocoa content) and cocoa butter should be mixed in equal parts. If you take about 100 grams of cocoa powder, you should mix it with 100 grams of cocoa butter and sweetener according to taste. As a rule, two tablespoons of sugar or syrup are well suited, and less if less is required. You can change the basic recipe to taste and refine it with other ingredients. There are different ideas recipe books.
With the basic and individual extra ingredients, it is then time to make the chocolate yourself:
- First, melt the cocoa butter in a water bath.
- Then add the solid sweetener. This is especially helpful with types of sugar so that there is no annoying feeling in the mouth later if it is not properly dissolved. You can also add liquid sweetener in the next step.
- This is followed by the cocoa powder, which you sift into a bowl. If you have other solid and easily soluble ingredients, such as ground spices, add them and then slowly mix in the liquid ingredients. Stir well until there are no more lumps.
- You can now put the liquid chocolate mass either on a baking tray lined with baking paper or in a suitable one Praline, chocolate or other silicone mold give.
- Now it’s time to refine/decorate: If you want to add ingredients such as cornflakes, nuts, dried fruit, coconut flakes, coarse sea salt, chilli flakes or other things to the chocolate, you can do that now and put them in/onto the liquid mass.
- Let the whole thing harden in the fridge for about 20 to 30 minutes. The chocolate is ready and you can either break it by hand or remove it from the mould.
Ready-made chocolate sets
If you want to make it a little easier for yourself, you can too finished sets grip that contain everything you need to make your own chocolate. You can usually use it to make different types of chocolate yourself (white, milk or dark chocolate) and there are already ingredients to refine and decorate them as well as instructions.
In other sets For example, there are also boxes of chocolates that you can write on to give away the homemade chocolate. Because if you want to make chocolate yourself, you can also share it with others. A great, individual gift idea.
Tip: In order to have something of the chocolate for as long as possible, it should be kept at room temperature between 16 and 18 degrees. In a tin can it lasts for several weeks without turning white or dull.
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