How To Make Chocolate From Scratch|Homemade Milk Chocolate

What type of chocolate is this?  
     In this post I describe how to make milk chocolate using regular butter and cocoa powder.I used milk powder too to make it a milk chocolate. I used brown sugar so the chocolate tasted and looked like caramel. You can use regular sugar instead. Mine set after two days just when I thought I failed in my attempt to prepare chocolate. I made chocolate tofu pie using the chocolate. Reduce the water that goes in here to make it set early.You can also try grinding the dry milk to fine powder and follow this same procedure. I used carnation non-fat dairy milk powder.
 How to be careful, if it fails how to fix?
  Getting the single thread consistency of the sugar syrup is very important. Make sure you grease the plate for molding completely before adding the chocolate mixture. If you get runny chocolate don't panic make it set in refrigerator for few more hours or days.

Other methods of making chocolates :

     Some people use cocoa butter instead of regular butter for preparing chocolate(Cocoa butter is a butter made with cocoa beans). Chocolate can be prepared by grinding the cocoa beans too. But this seems to be bit long and complicated process.You can use cocoa powder only to prepare regular chocolate.You can also use milkmaid but the chocolate won't hold its shape(just roll them and dip in nuts and set in refrigerator).So my preference is this simple milk chocolate recipe.

How to do variation in this milk chocolate recipe?

• Add chopped nuts like cashews, badam/almonds
• Add cardamom powder.
• Add cinnamon powder.
• Add nutmeg powder.

                        How To Make Chocolate From Scratch|Homemade Milk Chocolate

   Homemade milk chocolate from scratch using cocoa powder and regular butter

Cuisine: International Category: Desserts Yields:around 20 pieces  Rest time:2 hours Cook time:15 minutes Total time: 2 hours 15 minutes


Ingredients:(by US measuring cups)

• 90 grams milk powder(around 3/4 cup)
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder.
• 1 tsp vanilla essence.
• 90 grams sugar powdered(around 3/4 cup
• 1 1/2 tbsp butter
• 1 /2 cup water or water to immerse(see notes)

Method:

• Sieve milk powder,cocoa powder together.

• Add water to sugar placed in tava. When sugar melts reduce the flame to get one string consistency.

• Switch off the flame and add butter and vanilla essence to it.

• When the butter melts add cocoa -milk powder mix.

• Make sure there are no lumps.
• Add this chocolate to already greased plate set for moulding.

• Freeze it for 2 hours or until its hard(Mine took 2 days .see notes).
• Shape this chocolate using cookie cutter or knife.
• Gift your loved ones by wrapping in colour papers.
• Kids love this milk chocolate.You can be happy that you made it and there is no additives in there.

Note:

• Try to sieve the milk powder and cocoa together first.
• I mentioned butter in stick quantity(not sure melted butter measures the same).
• Reduce the water used here to make the chocolate set quickly.
• If you are not able to mix all of them together when using reduced water ,you can add little milk while mixing them.
• Make sure you get single thread consistency before proceeding.
• Your chocolate is not setting or runnyKeep them for few more hours in fridge.
• You can make your favourite shape in cookie cutters.
• Still you got a question,write to me or comment here.

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