Make your own chocolate!
This Easter, how about making your own mini chocolate eggs?
Chocolate, with a high cacao content, is good for us. Store bought eggs are usually loaded with sugar and have a very low cacao solid content, you also pay lots for the packaging. By making this yourself you are in control of the amount of sugar that is in the chocolate. Here is my Story on Chocolate.
These are solid eggs and this translates to a 71% cocoa solid chocolate. You can get Cacao butter and raw Irish honey in any health food shop or many Super Value supermarkets.
Serves: 30 small eggs Prep time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
100g cacao butter
110g cacao powder
85g raw Irish honey
Flavours, eg. 2-3 tbsp shredded coconut or 1 tbsp hazelnut butter
Method:
1. Melt the cacao butter in a bowl over simmering water.
2. Whisk in the cacao powder and honey.
3. Stir in the flavouring.
4. Place teaspoons of the mixture onto a tray lined with parchment, refrigerate
for 5 mins.
5. Remove from the fridge and form into small egg shapes with your hands and
roll in cacao powder or coconut.
6. Package up as gifts and enjoy.
Variation: You can add whatever flavour you like, eg mint extract, orange zest etc.
Serving suggestions : This are rich, so small portions are advised.
Storage: It is best stored in the fridge and will keep for 1-2 months
