Some nuts

More nuts

Roast the nuts

Oven roasting

Freeze-dried strawbsraspsberries and iyokan peel confit

Beggars can't be choosers.

Did you know Costa Rica contains extraordinary flora and fauna and with its tropical climate and environmental conditions, cacao cultivation is possible in all parts of the country. However, the export of cacao only plays a small role in Costa Rica‘s economy, with the export of bananas, pineapples and coffee as well as products from the high-tech sector being far more important. The political context of the country as well as its success in the tourism sector also contributes to the preservation of biodiversity.

>>21050384
They can

I will be using a 70% chocolate from Costa Rica with a 72h conching from Finca la Amistad.

«Finca la Amistad» is a 95-hectare family farm in the north of Costa Rica which was founded by Ernst and Ruth Brugger and is now run by their son Simon. In addition to the cultivation and processing of cacao, there is a lodge with overnight accommodation for tourists. The finca can count on long-standing and experienced employees who carry out all the necessary processing steps with the utmost care, from harvesting to fermentation in wooden crates to the drying stage. This yields an extraordinarily aromatic cacao.

Its unique flavor profile begins with a well balanced, mild cacao taste complemented through a discreet fruit acid note which provides a pleasant resonance between naturally fruity blackberry and sweet yellow-green banana.
The long lasting finish of this Costa Rica 70% begins with a high roast hazelnut taste which is rounded through an aromatic woody, raw coffee note.

I will seed them as they will be consumed in the next few days

>>21050357
>>21050358
man i love Florentines, these remind me of florentine cookies

>>21050458
Nice, Felchlin is a good brand, do you temper chocolate a lot? I’ve done it occasionally but seems like I get it wrong more often than right.

>>21050459
Beggars are easier to make than florentines i'd say.

>>21050489
No, i've tempered less than five times more or less. I'm pretty lazy and end up eating the callets as is but i've recently bought moulds to make me less lazy. I know that with the seeding method the chocolate blooms faster.
Otherwise i've tried the microwave+seeding, or double boiler plus heatgun without seeding.
>I get it wrong more often than right.
Is it the temps or the result is not as you'd want?

Pics i took while melting and making them as i had to hurry.

>>21050489
>Felchlin is a good brand
Yeah i like them a lot. I've ordered 14.5kg from them this year alone lol.

Melt on double boiler

Don't get it too hot

Once melted seed it

Too much chocolate i'd say, i'll maybe redo them tomorrow and fill the mould a smudge less.

Poured what was left

>>21050629
Oops

No waste, warmed some milk to clean the bowl

>>21050613
>Is it the temps or the result is not as you'd want?
Think the temps, was using a candy thermometer and it probably wasn’t precise enough.

>>21050628
They look really good, chocolate has a nice shine

>>21050649
I took them out of the fridge for the pic, they were in for maybe 15min no more.
I'll unmould in half an hour or so, we'll see the results.
I've used meat thermometers (the ones that fold) and the laser one. But the laser has a EMS setting and i've let it at the default i haven't checked the chocolate one, i'm not sure it's 100% accurate but so far it's good enough.
Looks like i should bump the EMS setting a bit lol. Not sure if 0.95 or 0.93. I see >>21050623
i'm at 0.85.

Just before unmoulding

Unmoulded smoothly, the edges suck because there was too much chocolate, i cut them though so no biggie

I'm no pro but it's acceptable for church gifts.

They fit in the blister even with the fruit protruding. I was worried.

Tomorrow i'll probably make some more.
I'll try them tomorrow too

i think beggars prefer cash

>>21050765
>>21050770
They look very nice, I'd love to get these from someone.

>>21050761
>I'm no pro but it's acceptable for church gifts.
I can safely say anyone receiving these at a church will be overjoyed. I understand that they might not meet your expectations but as someone who has been on the giving and receiving end of this sort of thing--you did an exceptional job.
Post the ones you make tomorrow. Good show anon.

Cross section

>>21050980
>>21051004
Thanks bros, will shortly make another batch. Would love to gift you some.

Latest fresh batch, will make another later

Ready

>>21050458
>I will seed them
?

>>21052662
Seeding chocolate introduces pre-existing crystal formations which will help temper the entire batch

>>21052645
i would be pumped as hell to get one of these. well done

Last batch, this time i did not put it in the fridge to try and mitigate the small white points i get like in >>21050761. My guess was blooming because of too fast temp change.

>>21052662
Like >>21052753 said it's to temper without tabliering.

>>21052767
Thanks bro i would gladly give you one

I also made a few discs with what was left.

Also no fridge

Easy to unpeel

The no fridge tabletts on the other hand would not unmould so i ended up putting them 20min in the fridge at the end.
I'm not sure this was necessary as they still would not unmould until i slapped the mould against the table. They may have unmoulded without the fridge, i'll know next time.
No white spots>>21050761 yaaaay!!

Last batch done and almost ready for tomorrow (still have to pack them).

>>21052645
I would devour one of these with a fat cup of coffee

>>21053465
NOOOOOOOO i don't want you to get sick bro!
You shouldn't eat one in one go!!! Get a disc >>21052868 with your cuppa instead.

>>21052662
Its when you nut in it

>>21055079
that's nuts

>>21050287
Chocolate with dried fruits and nuts sounds delicious, and maybe nutrient dense, don't recall seeing these around me. Eh, I usually love fruit cake around Christmas but all the prepared ones had canola oil now and that causes me to bloat.

>>21050615
Haven't made my own chocolate before even though l love eating chocolate and want milk chocolate that isn't so sweet...how is clean up? I'm always worried it'll be worse than cheese.

>>21050287
Never understood chocolate elitism, all of it tastes good :)

>>21056866
hershey's is vile

>>21057240
so is your face but who's counting

>>21057245
shit taste faggot because of all the anilingus

>>21057240
Hershey is on par with Nestle, the difference is that Nestle is a Swiss company that committed tons of crime against humanity while Hershey is an American company that donated proceeds to local children for decades without making it an ad campaign, one of the warning signs that Mr.Beast was terrible was him slagging Hershey but not Nestle when promoting his sugary junk.

>>21057876
what I want is dark milk chocolate, as much chocolate as possible with as little sugar, but I want milk in it.

I wish I liked chocolate

>>21050287
>>21050357
walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds
>>21050358
...the white ones are pine nuts and the green ones are pistachio?

>>21055517
>A mendiant is a traditional French confection composed of a chocolate disk studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the four mendicant religious orders. Each of the ingredients used refers to the color of monastic robes. Tradition dictates that raisins stand for the black-robed Augustinians, hazelnut for the brown and white habit of the Carmelites, dried fig for the brown-robed Franciscans, and almond for the Dominicans' white robes.

>They are usually produced during Christmas. The recipes for this confection have diverged from the traditional combination of nuts and fruits to incorporate seeds, fruit peels, and other items.
from wikipedia

>>21056848
desu the chocolate is already made, i just melted it. roasting and conching aka making the chocolate is another whole ordeal.
the cleanup is pretty simple, put the dishwasher safe stuff in the dishwasher, the rest in the sink with hot water

>>21058090
how come you don't like chocolate?

>>21058548
yes

Hot choco in the making.
Dark choco

>>21058093
this cracked me up, but no idea why

Some whole milk and whole cream

Cinnamon and vanilla extract

Boil and simmer for around ten minutes

Add cocoa powder

Filter to remove the cinnamon and add the chocolate

Double expresso shot

Serve and enjoy

>>21058779
I don't have a dishwasher, I usually soak dishes in ricewater, hot pasta water, if it's really hard then undiluted dish soap and dried sponge. So far the hardest thing I have to clean is cheese, I usually bake cheese with something underneath. Oh man, there was a Joyce Carolyn Oates short story where the woman who killed her five kids apologized to her husband in the note about not being able to get cheese out of the corningware lol.

>>21052339
This looks very pretty, how long can they keep?

>>21052878
Do i have to beg to get a bar?

>>21050287
That’s weird, we have chocolate beggars in my country but they don’t look anything like that

>>21061308
Well technically it's cow vomit because it's butyric acid which is found in their stomachs as a digestive agent.
But yeah I don't like Hershey's chocolate either. The vomit taste is not subtle and pretty hard to ignore.

>>21050628
Quality shit, OP! This thread reminded me of the stuff we’d put together at a Belgian place I worked at… almost makes me miss it despite having a better job now.

Hope the people you’re gifting these too enjoy them! They look delicious!

>>21059304
Hot water does the trick but havint a dishwasher if it's dishwasher safe i don't bother and use it.

>>21060264
First time i make them so i can't tell and it's eaten pretty fast unless you dislike chocolate.

>>21061297
No i'll gift you some.

>>21061464
Thanks bro, you can always reminisce by doing a batch at home, and it's delicious.
The people thought i bought them, so i take it as a nice compliment. They enjoyed them immensely and i enjoyed making and gifting them, so it was a win win.

>>21062173
Yes.

>>21062388
starchy water is amazing for getting stuff clean.

>>21052878
Comfy

>>21050378
>iyokan
?

>>21050391
They also have toucans.

>>21050287
>>21050391
I have baker's chocolate in the fridge...

>>21065742
why?

>>21066484
To make chocolate oatcakes.

>>21067146
post pic

>>21053465
You haven't lived till you've dunked chocolate in a cup of hot tea.

>>21065223
Just follow my nose!

>>21068467
here: >>21069261
Melted bakers chocolate with butter in microwave, stirred in oat flakes and stirred in some sweetened condensed NNGSVmilk too.

>>21057876
Ever tried Walker's dark chocolate coated mint patties?

>>21050391
>Costa Rica
they don't have an army.

>>21050391
How do I get Costa Rica chocolate in Canada? Especially the kind I can use to make my own chocolate? I usually like a lot of milk but next to no sugar and it's hard to find that combo.

>>21069261
i've dunked these in the best of them anon
milk
hot tea
hot coffee
chocolate slightly melted by the temperature of your beverage is a simple, beautiful pleasure.

>>21074294
I prefer McVities milk chocolate Digestives, leaves a mess on my finger tips but ti's finger licking good.

>>21074134
Where does one even get chocolate to make chocolate? I've only ever seen bakers chocolate in the baking aisle, used it for brownies just fine, but chocolate bars?

>>21074294
I'm in Canada and not in Vancouver s there is no Trader's Joe, I think we have Whole Foods in the suburbs.

>>21050287
we dont call those that here

>>21077295
n

>>21078387
i

>>21074944
Anyone tried dunking Kit Kat chocolate bars in milk tea? Freshly steeped orange pekoe tea with a little milk, no sugar.

>>21078512
G

>>21078632
no.

Got some from Sprüngli. They use Felchlin chocolate. The tartufi is made with gianduja and 65% maracaibo. The bar they don't say but based on the taste i guess it is the 35% maracaibo with apples and alpine flowers.
Both super tasty.

Yesterday i made some lemon caramel ganache chocolate bonbons. Here are some pics i took.
Double boiler to melt the chocolate, basic 64% from supermarket.

The rest is prepared for seeding.

Filled the moulds then emptied

Whilst cristalysing in the fridge i made the lemon caramel ganache

Lemon juice in the caramel

Add to the chocolate

Emulsify and let cool a bit as to not melt the shells

Filled the shells up to 1mm from the top

Used the rest of the ganache to make truffles.

Capped the shells with a thin chocolate layer

Unmoulded

First time making them, relly happy with the result.
Tonight i'm making gianduja ones.

For the gianduja hazelnuts

Oven roasted

Icing sugar

49% chocolate

Removed some of the hazelnuts skin

Mix with the icing sugar until a paste forms.

Add the melted chocolate to the sugar hazelnut paste

Gianduja is ready

Shells pre gianduja filling

Next time i'll fill less

>>21082101
would eat

>>21082101
Great job anon!

>>21082101
These looks nice, how many can you eat at single sitting?

>>21082316
how?

>>21082457
what happened to this thread? I came in here ready to take a shit on everything but it's homemade and looks really yummy

>>21086181
Oh, basically it's just that you're a slight bit of a cunt. Nothing out of the ordinary

>>21086184
b-but the fruit looks so good >:3 >>21050628

>>21086125
Magic

>>21087191
Well I'm a muggle, what's the muggle way to do it? Just scratch at it with nails? Wait do you get hazelnuts raw and then bake it?

>>21087523
>Well I'm a muggle
sucks to be you

>>21087692
We invented all the yummy foods and the only the only thing wizards do is charm chocolate frogs to jump. Would you rather have a lemon drop or an acid pop?

>>21088998
>we got bamboozled into making yummy foods for the wizards
oooooookay

>>21050287
So I figure I'll probably get my fruits and nuts from John Vince foods, but what type of chocolate should I get to melt with the fruit?

John Vince Foods have the following dried fruits: apples, apricots, bananas, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, currants, gingers, goji berries, mango, papayas, peaches, pears, pineapples, prunes, raisins (several kind)

types of raisins: Raisins |sultana Turkish, Raisins Golden, Raisins Thompson Jumbo, Raisins Thompson Seedless, Raisin Thompson California, Currants

https://www.johnvince.com/wholesale-partners

I'm surprised there is dried papaya..and goji berries, I probably missed a few before I stopped reading as the site got slow. I used t get dried bananas and kiwis from John Vince around Downsview, Toronto.

>>21089403
That's how strong magic gets

>>21086125
After roasting the skin can be removed easily.

>>21086181
It tastes really yummy too.

>>21090171
>what type of chocolate should I get
The one you like.

>>21082457
Forgot to post finished pic.

>>21082908
>>21083834
>>21084505
Thanks bros.

>>21091014
Grimacing

Was too excited with the gianduja i forgot to make a ganache with it and just poured the gianduja in the shells. Not bad but something to do better next time.

>>21091491
I know cake flour is different from not cake flour, so bakers chocolate I have is probably not the right thing to make chocolate bars with? I tried to make hot chocolate with it and it's a mess. Very good for mug cake though.

I know with vanilla you can get actual vanilla beans, seen post where anons made their own extract...well do people get chocolate beans or something to make their chocolate?

>>21091492
That looks tasty.

>>21058784
Nestle hot chocolate used to be so good but now there are all kinds of vegetable oils in it, it's in their chocolate bars too, blah.

>>21095038
huh?

Kudos chocanon. Tempering chocolate is virtually impossible for me so much respect.

>>21095861
I mean Nestle Carnations, first it got more sugary and then it got vegetable oils.

>>21058093
Chocolate is from the New World, so European and Asian consumption of chocolate is relatively new.

>>21082031
Nice

>>21058090
what type of chocolates have you tried?

>>21050758
edible phone case. is that for android or iphone

>>21101906
Yes

>>21058779
well this is awesome. if you were hawking these at a farmer's market, or set up a TikTok shop what do you think you'd sell them for?

(I respect it infinitely more that you're gifting small batch hobby products especially to a church. just curious)

>>21062388
have you messed around with nibs?

>>21061309
hahah. same

this is AWESOME OP. you've inspired me to try this (some day)

you did great

>>21095038
criminal

>>21061309
I didn't even know chocolate beggars exist till this thread, my chocolate options are just bar with buts or infused with mint oil or orange oil...

>>21050630
No mistakes. Only happy little accidents

>>21056866
Milk chocolate is almost always the superior chocolate. There are some good dark chocolates but it's not the go to for the best one

>>21104294
Huwhite chocolate is superior.

>>21104294
dark chocolate usually means higher chocolate content AND no dairy, when what I want is high chocolate content AND dairy, so hard to find, as is with full fat chocolate milk that's low in sugar.

>>21091495
How did you fill the shells?

>>21105645
white chocolate chips dark chocolate cookies...someone should do a brownie cookie version

>>21107713
macedonian chocolate chip?

>>21055111
Nut now.

>>21065223
TWO CANS
OF TOUCANS

>>21108701
What does one can of Toucan taste like?

>>21050287
looks lovely

>>21052868
Best Cookies

>>21074944
I went out and got Chocolate Digestives after haven't had them in a long time -- it taste different, not as chocolatey as befoer....

>>21112212
Still helps with digestion?

>>21112978
No actually, it caused bloating, I don't know if it's the shea butter, which could be chemically extracted with petrochemical hexane, or emulsifier Polyglerol polyncinoleate.

>>21050287
Me mummy made chocolate with cashews and sea salt I think. Twas a yummy snack and she says it's very healthy for me
Oh and easy to make too like my tendies

>>21065223
I have more than that in my pantry.

>>21050287
I got Lindt chocolate pralines a big box that expires in April, should I stick it in the fridge?

>>21114646
What happens when you eat it?

>>21114930
I get sugar high? Oh man, I thought I might stick most of it in the fridge but I'm already more than 3/4 of the way through the box with 37 pralines, from France.

>>21116014
Goddamn young lady stop being gay. Jesus Christ.

>>21116014
>I get sugar high?
?

>>21116030
I have finished the entire box...

>>21050287
Anybody here ever tried mixing frozen cherries with cocoa powder and cream?

>>21118870
On a scale of 1 to 10 how proud are you?

>>21120323
Yes

>>21121759
no

>>21050287
>>21121773
I really need to make my own pralines, there was too much sugar in it, I swear I remember ones that didn't taste as sweet. It used to be that sugar was the third or second listed ingredient, now it's 1st.

>>21063853
Some kind of candied Japanese citrus, I haven't seen it where I am.