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hello. And now on todays video. Last week i made white chocolate. And
ever since i made the white chocolate everyone has been asking me to make dark
chocolate. So join me today as i make the proper version and the
delicious version of dark chocolate.
So i am going to start by showing you the main ingredient and that is our cocoa butter.
Now this is the same stuff i showed you last week when i made white chocolate
now if you happen to miss that white chocolate video i will leave a link down below just so you can
check it out. Now you can't but cocoa butter in every shop. I was
able to buy this from a health food store. but if your health food store doesn't carry it
just google it and I'm sure you will find a stockist.
I am going to use what's called a double boiler
so i have a pot of hot water on the stove
and to that im going to place on a
bowl
and make sure the water is low enough so it doesn't touch the bottom of the bowl.
Other wise you could burn the chocolate
So into this bowl place in our cocoa butter
Then mix it around until its completely melted
Now that its melted we are going to pour in a little
vanilla extract
Now at this point you can add some sugar to sweeten it up
But to make it a little bit healthier I'm going to add some honey.
Mix it around until its well combined.
and finally add in our dark
cocoa powder
Now mix it through until its well combined and completely dissolved
As a tip it is very important that you don't use a wooden spoon.
Reason being if there is any moisture in the spoon what it will do is spoil the
chocolate and you will have to start all over again because you can't get any water in it.
Once it is nice and glossy like this just simply take it of the heat.
So for this final step I'm going to use a plastic
mould. Now this mould has a chocolate bar section so what what I'm going to use for the
dark chocolate. So its just a simple matter of grabbing our dark chocolate
and pour it right in
and were just gonna
just even it out
so its in there properly
and give it a quick jiggle
to remove the air. So what we are going to do is just leave this
and let it sit here for about an hour or so just until it starts to harden up
because we don't want it to harden up to fast then place it into the fridge for another hour to completely set.
So i have just taken it out of the fridge
Im just going to take it out of the mould, it should come out easily
and there we have it
a lovely lovely block
of dark
chocolate
just look at that
it looks fantastic doesn't it
and just by using the honey
This dark chocolate has turn out just that little bit more healthier
lets give this a try
oh thats good
thats just good
thats is a really really lovely dark chocolate
You can't taste the honey but it does at the sweetness to it which goes down perfect
and it was just so easy to make
and this dark chocolate tastes simply delicious
So give it a go because i guarantee if you love dark chocolate then you will
this
and if you do make it
please put a photo on my Facebook page because i'd love to see it
but until then thank you for watching this episode of Todd's kitchen
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