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Ingredients vickys homemade chocolate gf df ef sf nf

140 grams (5 oz) cocoa butter
85 grams (3 oz) unsweetened cocoa powder
6 tbsp icing / powdered sugar or to taste
1/2 tsp flavour extract (vanilla orange mint rum etc) or to taste
1 pinch salt

how to make vickys homemade chocolate gf df ef sf nf

First melt the cocoa butter either in a bain marie or in the microwave. If microwaving stir every 30 seconds until melted, it should only take a few minutes. Don't boil the butter

Now gradually add and stir in the cocoa powder

Add the salt and flavouring, then add the sugar to taste

To make prettier chocolates that won't melt so easily at room temperature, you need to temper the mixture. Please refer to my tempering link below

If you're not so worried about that, pour the mixture into a jug so you have better control of the flow

Now pour into moulds. I kept the plastic that were inside the kids christmas advent calendars. They are a perfect thickness, not too deep. I keep a lot of these type of things!

Let set for half an hour in the fridge

Pop out of the moulds and store in a lidded container in a cool, dark place

This recipe makes a darker chocolate. To make a milk chocolate, swap out some of the cocoa powder for powdered milk. For a dairy & soy-free version use powdered rice milk or coconut milk. You can buy both on the Amazon website