Homemade cocoa butter chocolate

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make homemade chocolate from cocoa butter? To do this, you will need only three ingredients. Directly, the cocoa butter itself, cocoa powder and powdered sugar. Cocoa butter should have a characteristic smell of cocoa fruits and a slightly creamy color. It will not melt at room temperature like butter. Cocoa powder must be sifted through a sieve.

2. Step 2:

   

   Choose natural cocoa powder, without additives, with a fat content of at least 15%, which tastes like bitter chocolate. It is high-quality cocoa that gives such a rich chocolate taste. The usual cocoa from the store will not work here, since it most often contains sugar and is fat-free. Instead of cocoa powder, you can take grated cocoa in caplets or lumpy (the pieces will need to be pre-crushed so that they melt faster)

3. Step 3:

   

   The dishes for making chocolate must be dry, otherwise the chocolate may curdle. Melt cocoa butter and cocoa powder in a small bowl. All this must be done in a water bath. In any case, do not cook chocolate on fire - it does not tolerate overheating. Cocoa butter begins to melt already at 38 degrees.

4. Step 4:

   

   Then add powdered sugar. Instead of powdered sugar, for sweetening, you can use the same amount of honey (it should be liquid and fluid), sugar syrup or cane sugar. You can experiment a little with the amount of sweetness. At the same time, its taste will change every time. After adding powdered sugar, the chocolate must be boiled in a water bath for a long time. It takes about 30 minutes. The chocolate must be stirred slowly.

6. Step 5:

   

   Prolonged cooking is necessary in order for the powdered sugar to completely melt. The finished chocolate is quite liquid. At this stage, various ingredients can be added to it, such as raisins, nuts, sesame seeds, candied fruits, cinnamon, dried fruits, etc.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour the finished chocolate into the prepared molds and put it in the refrigerator to solidify. The ideal option would be silicone molds. They do not need to be lubricated with anything. The cooled chocolate can be extracted from them very easily.

8. Step 7:

   

   Homemade cocoa butter chocolate is ready! Remove it from the molds and help yourself.

9. Step 8:

   

   I made chocolate in small molds. In this form, it can be used to decorate desserts and pastries! Bon appetit!