Category "chocolate"

Can I use Granulated sugar instead of White sugar?

I'm making a dark chocolate cake, it calls for white sugar but I have an unopened bag of granulated suagr at home. Can I use that instead to save some money or

Chocolate mint ganache - too runny

I am making moulded chocolates and I followed a recipe to make a mint ganache filling. I used 175g chocolate, 125ml cream, 10ml mint essence and 100g glucose.

Can you temper store-bought chocolate?

Is it possible and necessary to temper store-bought quality chocolate like Lindt? Say, for example, you want to use it to make chocolate moulds - would it be p

Microwave method of tempering chocolate - can it be done too fast?

I used the microwave method to temper chocolate. The first time I took it very slow and did it on a low power level. The result was a very shiny chocolate with

What is the function of salt in chocolate?

Iv'e recently seen, for the first time, chocolate coins filled with caramel and "Atlantic salt". I did a bit of searching and found some more of these types of

How do I get my chocolate mousse to be firm?

I need to pipe my chocolate mousse into chocolate Cups but the shape is not staying, how do I make my Mousse firm? I used the following ingredients in my mousse

Substituting white chocolate in Julia Child's mousse

I've been making chocolate mousse à la Julia Child since I was 12. I vaguely recall trying it with butterscotch chips, which didn't work. Now I have hi

Mole sauce without chocolate?

Would you recommend a way to make mole sauce without chocolate? If so how? I'm diabetic and don't want a lot of sugar in my sauce.

Can you use both melted and creamed butter for cookies?

I've been reading up on cookie science, and read that melted butter makes a denser cookie, and creamed room temp butter makes a cakey cookie. I'm looking to mak

What is the safest way to acquire non-alkalized cocoa powder?

I am looking for a non-alkalized, full-fat cocoa powder to use in recipes. By non-alkalized, I mean cocoa which has not undergone the Dutch process. The proble

How to solidify melted chocolate?

I have a fair amount of 75% cocoa chocolate. I would like to melt this chocolate and mix it up with some spices, fruit, nuts, coffee of mine. I would then sprea

Tempered chocolate melting easily

I tempered 70% bitter chocolate (Lubeca brand) following the instructions on the Anova site using sous vide: first to 115 degrees, then 81 and lastly 90 degrees

How best to melt and reform chocolate

I'm planning on making a custom box of chocolates using a home-made silicone food/ice-cube tray. I think I'll need to get the chocolate pretty hot and runny so

How can I cause (yes, cause, not prevent) bloom in chocolate?

I've had a few Hershey chocolate bars in the past that had a white surface coating. After a bit of searching, I found this is called bloom. I'm not sure if this

Make existing cheesecake recipe chocolate?

I have a cheesecake recipe that I have used many times, and absolutely love. I also love chocolate. So I was thinking, why not combine the two? There are plenty

Making brigadeiros in Portugal similar to the ones in Brazil

There is a famous Brazilian sweet called brigadeiro (I've seen a few questions related to it around here) that is basically made of condensed milk, cocoa or pow

Chocolate covered cookies stuck to cooling rack

I have some glazed chocolate cookies that I accidentally put on a cooling rack to let the chocolate glaze cool off, but now the chocolate glaze is completely st

Sugar won't dissolve in cacao butter

In an attempt to make (vegan) white chocolate I noticed that the sugar doesn't dissolve in the melted cacao butter. For reference, this is the recipe I'm using

Mixing 60% and 81% dark chocolate to get 70%

I need 70% dark chocolate for a cake recipe (actually 72%, but the recipe notes that slightly lower content will be fine), also, according to the recipe, high-q

Is cooking dark chocolate and simple dark chocolate same?

In the supermarket I saw a packet of cooking dark chocolate and a packet of dark chocolate slab. I want to ask are they same ? Is there any difference between c