Chocolate at home

Great homemade chocolate is easy to make yourself! You can easily choose any of the proposed 8 recipes for making chocolate at home with step-by-step photos. Here you will find a recipe for every taste and you will be able to please yourself and your loved ones with a delicate delicacy without harmful additives.

A simple and delicious recipe for homemade cocoa chocolate

The simplest, but incredibly delicious recipe for making homemade chocolate is chocolate made from ordinary cocoa and butter. With a little effort, you will get excellent chocolate, bitter and healthy. You can safely give this chocolate to your children and enjoy it yourself!

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   How to make chocolate at home? In a convenient bowl, combine cocoa, milk and granulated sugar. Be sure to leave a couple of spoons of milk, which you will combine with flour at another stage of cooking.Place the bowl over low heat so that all ingredients heat and mix evenly.
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   When you achieve homogeneity of the mixture, the sugar has completely melted and the chocolate begins to thicken slightly, add butter to the container with the treat. At this point, you need to stir the mixture regularly.
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   Add flour to the remaining milk and stir vigorously until the mixture is completely homogeneous, and then pour the mixture into a bowl with chocolate. Mix the product vigorously so that no lumps form. Cook the chocolate for several minutes until it reaches an acceptable consistency.
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   Prepare the dishes for chocolate: take a plate or mold. The plate is suitable for making a bar - you just need to pour the chocolate onto the film in the plate and wrap it.
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   Instead, you can pour the chocolate into silicone molds, from where you can easily remove pieces of the treat. Place the container with the chocolate mixture in the freezer or refrigerator. If you want softer chocolate, put it in the refrigerator.
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   After about two hours, you can already enjoy the finished dessert! The chocolate will harden quickly enough and you can take it apart into pieces or remove it from the mold.

Bon appetit!

How to make hot chocolate at home?

A fragrant, viscous drink that warms and gives comfort is, of course, hot chocolate. You can prepare this wonderful drink yourself at home. Stock up on a good mood, the right ingredients and get started!

Ingredients:

• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Dark chocolate – 40 gr.
• Milk chocolate – 20 gr.
• Cream – 35 ml.
• Salt – a pinch/
• Cinnamon - a pinch

Process preparations:

1. Take a convenient bowl or cezve and put chopped chocolate there - milk and dark.Heat the chocolate mixture over low heat until the chocolate begins to melt but not burn.

2. Gradually pour cold milk into the container with melted chocolate in a thin stream, stirring gently. Then add the cooled cream and stir the mixture again until completely smooth.

3. Bring the hot chocolate to a boil over low heat, then add a pinch of salt and cinnamon. You can add other spices at your discretion. Boil the chocolate for a couple of minutes, then turn off the heat and stir the finished drink.

4. Pour the drink into a cup, and then decorate the cup with a sprig of mint or marshmallows. Depending on your mood, you can add vanillin or nuts to the composition.70

Culinary success!

A simple and delicious white chocolate recipe

White chocolate is a special, wonderful treat. It is usually believed that you can only make ordinary chocolate from cocoa at home, but this is by no means true! If you want to get smooth white chocolate at home, just carefully study our recipe.

Ingredients:

• Cocoa butter – 100 gr.
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp.
• Powdered sugar – 100 gr.
• Powdered milk – 10 gr.
• Salt - a pinch

Cooking process:

1. First you need to prepare all the ingredients for the chocolate. To make the dessert truly tasty and of high quality, use only fresh, high-quality ingredients.

2. Melt the cocoa butter in a small bowl over a water bath. While the butter is melting, the powdered sugar must be thoroughly mixed with the dry milk.

3. Start sifting the milk powder and powdered sugar into the already melted butter, thoroughly mixing the dessert with a whisk to avoid lumps and heterogeneity of the composition. Don't forget to add a pinch of salt.

4.Lastly, add vanilla extract or, as a last resort, vanillin to the mixture of ingredients. The smooth chocolate mass needs to be mixed well and boiled for a couple of minutes, and then prepare the molds.

5. Carefully pour the finished white chocolate, while still hot, into shaped molds, for example, in the shape of hearts. This will be a great treat gift for your partner or a child. Shake the molds carefully, then the bubbles will be distributed evenly and excess air will be released from the total mass.

6. Place the molds in the refrigerator for about two hours, during which time the chocolate should completely harden and then it can be removed. The easiest way to get treats is from silicone molds.

Step-by-step recipe for making dark chocolate

Dark chocolate is natural dark chocolate with a characteristic taste. It is a mixture of strong cocoa aroma and tart bitterness. This chocolate is useful in small portions, lifts your mood and improves concentration. Now you can prepare this delicacy yourself by following our recipe.

Ingredients:

• Cocoa bar – 250 gr.
• Cocoa butter – 150 gr.
• Honey – 8 tbsp.
• Vanilla (in a pod) – 2 pinches
• Ground cinnamon – 2 pinches
• Grated nutmeg – 2 pinches
• Nuts to taste – 2 zmen

Cooking process:

1. To make chocolate at home, stock up on silicone candy molds and the highest quality products. Cocoa butter needs to be heated in a water bath so that it melts thoroughly and becomes liquid.

2. Add the grated cocoa bar to the now melted hot butter and start stirring the ingredients until they are evenly combined.

3.When the mass becomes homogeneous, pour in the required amount of liquid honey and add spices: vanillin, cinnamon, nutmeg. Stir the chocolate with a whisk and cook until it is completely homogeneous.

4. Place a little mixture of nuts into silicone molds - it could be hazelnuts, peanuts, cashews or almonds. Make sure there are the same number of nuts in each mold.

5. Very carefully pour hot dark chocolate into the molds with nuts, then shake each mold, releasing air bubbles out.

6. To fully prepare the dish, place the molds with chocolate in the refrigerator for two to three hours so that the candies harden. After this time, remove the delicacy from the molds and serve them to the table, or package them beautifully as a gift.

Bon appetit!

Delicious milk chocolate at home

Children especially love milk chocolate because it is very delicate. Such chocolate, if it is of good quality, has a milky flavor and simply melts in your mouth. It is quite easy to prepare if you strictly follow the cooking technology. Try it!

Ingredients:

• Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Sugar – 200 gr.
• Wheat flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Milk – 5 tbsp.
• Vanilla sugar - a couple of pinches

Cooking process:

1. In a thick-bottomed saucepan, combine granulated sugar, wheat flour and cocoa powder. After thoroughly mixing the mixture, pour in literally a couple of tablespoons of milk and mix everything with a whisk. The mixture should be relatively homogeneous.

2. Pour all the remaining milk into the resulting slurry and mix again. Place the saucepan in a water bath and cook the chocolate, stirring it constantly.Make sure that the sugar is completely dissolved and the chocolate is smooth and completely homogeneous in consistency.

3. Add a pinch of vanillin to the container with chocolate, stir and boil the mixture for another two to three minutes. Then add the butter and continue cooking the chocolate, whisking until the butter is completely dissolved.

4. For chocolate, prepare a mold or molds, it is best if they are made of silicone. Pour more hot chocolate into the mold and place it in the cold - freezer or refrigerator.

5. The chocolate will be completely ready in just a couple of hours, then you will need to take it out of the refrigerator, take it out of the mold and package it beautifully, or start eating it right away. You can store the finished chocolate in the refrigerator or room, having previously packaged it.

How to make Belgian chocolate at home?

This chocolate has already won the hearts of many, many people. Of course, few people can make real Belgian chocolate, but you can make a delicacy that is in no way inferior in taste to real chocolate. Be sure to try this recipe and you will be delighted!

Ingredients:

• Powdered sugar – 8 tbsp.
• Condensed milk – 4 tbsp.
• Cocoa butter – 12 tbsp.
• Grated cocoa – 10 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. First, arm yourself with a saucepan or a convenient bowl in which you will prepare your chocolate. Place cocoa butter in this container and then place it in a water bath.

2. When the cocoa butter melts, it’s time to add grated cocoa to the bowl. Add the ingredient to the oil little by little and mix the resulting mixture thoroughly. Add powdered sugar and mix the chocolate thoroughly in a bowl.

3.At this stage, you can add some spices to the chocolate - for example, vanillin or a pinch of cinnamon. For added spice, you can even add a drop of chili pepper - then the chocolate will be a surprise. Stir the mixture and add condensed milk.

4. Boil the chocolate in a water bath after adding all the ingredients for about three minutes, and then send the treat to cool and take shape. To do this, pour the chocolate into molds and put it in the refrigerator for literally two hours.

Sugar free diet chocolate recipe

Those who watch their figure or for some reason do not eat sugar also want to enjoy various tasty treats. Diet bars from health or sports food stores are prohibitively expensive, but there is a great solution instead. Diet chocolate is something that you can easily prepare yourself and will not regret your decision!

Ingredients:

• Infant formula – 200 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp.
• Sweetener – 30 gr.
• Skim milk – 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Dissolve baby milk in a saucepan with chilled skim milk. Using a whisk, thoroughly mix the ingredients until more or less homogeneous and place the container on the stove.

2. Heat the mixture of ingredients over very low heat, stirring vigorously. When the mixture is well heated, gradually sift in the cocoa powder and continue to vigorously mix it all with a whisk.

3. Lastly, you need to add a sweetener and boil the chocolate until the sweetener dissolves in the chocolate mixture.

4. Pour the finished chocolate, while it is still hot, into molds or pour into one silicone mold.It needs to be put in the refrigerator or freezer for a couple of hours until the chocolate hardens completely. After this time, you can start eating dessert.

A simple and delicious recipe for chocolate with honey

Chocolate prepared with honey has a very special taste and aroma. Replacing sugar with honey is also a great idea for those who are trying to eat healthy foods without harmful additives and excess sugar. Be sure to try it!

Ingredients:

• Grated cocoa – 200 gr.
• Cocoa butter – 40 gr.
• Dried fruits - to taste
• Liquid honey – 80 gr.

Cooking process:

1. First, grind and place cocoa butter in a bowl. You can also add coconut oil to it for taste. Place the container with butter on low heat and melt.

2. Then add honey to the hot mixture and stir until the consistency of the ingredients becomes more or less homogeneous. Add grated cocoa to this mixture and use a whisk to stir the preparing chocolate until the mixture becomes smooth and homogeneous.

3. Cook the chocolate over very low heat, stirring constantly, for about three minutes. After this time, the finished mixture can be distributed into molds.

4. Place finely chopped dried fruits – dried apricots, prunes and raisins – into chocolate molds. Then pour an equal amount of the mixture into each mold and shake them lightly. This will release the remaining air, and the chocolate will be evenly distributed between the dried fruits.

5. Place the molds with chocolate in the refrigerator or freezer for a couple of hours until the dessert completely hardens. When the chocolate has cooled, you can serve it.

Bon appetit!