Homemade Chocolate From Cocoa Powder – the Best Recipe
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Homemade chocolate is a delicious and healthy treat. Made from simple ingredients, it compares favorably with the purchased one with an exclusively natural composition and the absence of E additives.
In just 30 minutes, you will provide yourself and your family with a delicious treat. After all, the benefits of cocoa are huge. It:
- prevents age-related memory loss;
- improves neural connections in the brain;
- Helps release endorphins and lift your mood.
In addition, cocoa is so tasty that you want to eat and drink it all the time. And also use in different recipes, for example, to prepare natural homemade chocolate.
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Ingredients
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Nutrients
Calories
563.35
563.35
Carbohydrates
21.52
21.52
Fat
49.65
49.65
Protein
9.26
9.26
Step by step method
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Step 1
Put the grated cocoa in a bowl, add cocoa butter to it. We put the bowl on the steam bath, and in this way we will melt our products. The butter will start to melt first, and the cocoa mass will gradually melt. When the mass is partially melted, add the powdered sugar, sifting it through a sieve.
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Step 2
Stir the ingredients constantly while melting. When the mass becomes liquid and homogeneous, remove from heat and continue stirring until the temperature drops to 27 degrees.
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Step 3
After that, pour the mass into the mold. If you use a mold for a 100-gram chocolate bar, then visually the finished product will not differ in any way from its store counterparts.
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Step 4
Place an almond in each square of the tile. Between the nuts - candied lemon.
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Step 5
After a few hours, the mass will harden, and the tile will easily come out of the mold.
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Step 6
Natural homemade chocolate is ready.
Tips & variations
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The main thing for chocolate is to choose quality products. Cocoa must be real, and cocoa butter must be at least 80% fat. Raw almonds can be added - then chocolate will be even more useful. Or roasted for a more refined taste.
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Such a dessert is suitable for everyone, but especially for people who want to lose weight and fans of dark chocolate. You can change the ingredients as you wish. For example, add less sugar or cocoa.
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Homemade chocolate can be used in the preparation of more complex desserts: cakes, pies, ice cream.
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If you want to warm up, you can add some warm spices - ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves. And on the eve of winter, you can add citrus notes associated with the upcoming New Year to bitter chocolate. Rub the zest of an orange or lemon on a fine grater and your "winter chocolate" is ready.
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This simple and healthy chocolate dessert will be a favorite addition to a cup of hot drink. One piece of dark chocolate with a cup of coffee is energy and satiety with a minimum of calories and a maximum of taste.
