You can easily make chocolate yourself instead of buying it. With just a few ingredients and a few simple steps, you can make the candy at home. You can vary them according to your taste.
Make chocolate yourself: recipe with 5 ingredients
You can buy all kinds of chocolate in the supermarket, but it tastes so much better when you make it yourself. You also know what ingredients are in it. For two bars of chocolate you need these ingredients:
100 grams of cocoa butter
100 g baking cocoa
1 packet of vanilla sugar
2 tbsp sugar
a pinch of salt
Alternative: Instead of industrial table sugar, you can also use cane sugar, honey or agave syrup. Sugar substitutes such as erythritol or xylitol are also suitable.
In addition to the ingredients, you will need these items:
a small pot,
a big pot
and a chocolate mold.
Tip: You can get cocoa butter in health food stores or health food stores, for example. Make sure that you buy both them and the cocoa in organic quality and from fair trade. When you buy organic food, you can be sure that important ecological standards are met. Cocoa is also one of the foods that you should rather buy fairly, since poor working conditions often prevail on conventional plantations.
Step-by-step instructions for making homemade chocolate
Follow the basic recipe below to make your own chocolate:
Fill the larger pot with water and place or hang the smaller one in it. Add the cocoa butter to the small saucepan and increase the heat. Melt the cocoa butter, stirring, until it is completely smooth and there are no lumps.
Stir in the cocoa, vanilla sugar and salt. Add the sugar or your chosen sugar substitute and stir until creamy.
Fill the chocolate into matching chocolate molds and let them cool in the fridge. Alternative: If you don’t have any chocolate molds or don’t want to get them, you can simply spread the warm chocolate mass on a piece of baking paper and let it dry.
Refine chocolate
If plain chocolate is too boring for you, you can refine it. You can find inspiration for it here:
dried fruits: cranberries, raspberries, raisins
Seeds: pumpkin, sunflower
Nuts: hazelnuts, walnuts, peanuts
cornflakes
crumbled biscuits
gummy bear
chocolate lentils
chili flakes
grated coconut
Cinammon
Mini marshmallows
Add the ingredients of your choice to the chocolate once it’s creamy. Then you can let them cool as described above. You can combine different toppings for a special taste experience.
