Easter can be a sad time, with people not only struggling to find working recipes for hot cross buns but unable to eat a chocolate Easter egg. Sure, there are other sorts of eggs but most include wheat products or some other allergy inducing foodstuff.
So, hair-brained scheme though it may be, I've bought some cacao nibs, cacao butter and cacao liquor (just waiting for them to arrive) and have a plan forming to make my own chocolate. I'm starting at the below stage and will work my way up to such things as solid chocolates as we all know them.
John Scharffenberger
From this point I will have to start experimenting in which ingredients can be added to make blocks of chocolate or pretty little chocolate drops with designs. Obviously normal powdered milk, nuts, soy and the like are out. I'll post my findings as they succeed.
Rosalie: In your foodie travels Kate, within the region that is, have you run across cacao nibs and cacao butter?
ReplyDeleteKate: Hmmm not that I can think of, leave it with me...
Rosalie: I was thinking of making chocolates for the various chocolate days. Store bought is troublesome
Kate: Ahh I might have a solution.
Rosalie: You do? I also had another question for you too. What do you use as biscuit base?
Kate: If I can find the right biscuits I use that. There ia a brand of very plain, low sugar (ie no burning) 'tea biscuits' that I use as a base with the coconut rough in my cheesecake.