How to melt chocolate for decoration

Simple, but very effective decoration of pastries and desserts! Delicious and fragrant pastries and a simple dessert will easily turn into a festive and very beautiful dish, it is enough to pour them with melted milk or bitter chocolate. There are several ways to melt chocolate, the easiest and fastest is on the stove. Since we need thick chocolate for decoration, we will use butter to melt it. And most importantly, it is necessary to take real chocolate, which contains cocoa.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 5 % 4 g
Fats 58 % 49 g
Carbohydrates 37 % 31 g
585 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    The ingredients need room temperature to melt the chocolate evenly and quickly, so we take them out of the refrigerator in advance.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    In a saucepan with a thick bottom (if you need a little chocolate for decoration, you can use a turkey), pour water, bring to a boil, put butter cut into pieces and chocolate broken into small pieces, put a slow fire and stir the mass constantly, wait for it to start melting. You need to constantly mix the mass, otherwise it can burn to the bottom of the pan.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    As soon as the mass becomes homogeneous and shiny, remove it from the heat, pour it into a container and let it cool down a little.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    After which you can use chocolate for decoration. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Bitter chocolate - 539   kcal/100g

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