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18 Jul 19, 07:37 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
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Best milk chocolate to melt
Hi I am making fudge for the kids to give to their teachers (well kids are making it) and it says melt milk chocolate but I don’t know which is the best one to get will normal dairy milk do or does it need to have more cocoa? I’m not the best baker so any help or tips are gratefully accepted.
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18 Jul 19, 07:46 AM |
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Helping Mickey
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I always use Galaxy or Dairy Milk because I like them best! It's fine to melt. Probably safer to do in a glass bowl over a pan of water rather than microwave. Also, what a lovely, thoughtful gift.
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18 Jul 19, 07:47 AM |
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Bon viveur and shopaholic
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I also use galaxy and just do it gently and slowly as above
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18 Jul 19, 07:48 AM |
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Thread Starter
Very Serious Dibber
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I love galaxy chocolate didn’t know you could use that. The fudge might not make it to the teachers!
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18 Jul 19, 08:28 AM |
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VIP Dibber
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As someone who's speciality for all fundraisers is Rice Krispie Cakes I have melted many different types of chocolate and the safest way is to break it into as small pieces as possible, put into a glass bowl over a saucepan of hot water and keep stirring and sort of turning it over. I have never found a chocolate that doesn't melt this way and I have made many different types of Rice krispie cakes!
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18 Jul 19, 08:29 AM |
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if it doesnt taste good before you melt it, then it isnt gonna be any good afterwards.
usually i just buy a big block of dairy milk unless i'm doing something that needs dark choc. however, i recently tried a block of "j.d gross arriba ecuadorian 81%" from lidl, and *really* liked it (much more so than a 90% one i tried previously). i'll be experimenting with cooking with it hopefully at the weekend! |
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18 Jul 19, 08:31 AM |
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18 Jul 19, 08:37 AM |
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18 Jul 19, 08:40 AM |
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I normally use the cheap stuff from the supermarkets. Smartprice or the equivalent it's about 30p for 100g bar. Tastes nice and works better than cooking chocolate
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18 Jul 19, 09:07 AM |
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Have you got your recipe ready OP? This is the recipe I use and it never fails...
marshmallowfluff/never-fail-fudge/ I don't melt the chocolate as it goes in when the other ingredients are boiling so melts itself. I use supermarket chocolate ie Aldi which is about 30p for 100g, and use mostly dark. I also substitute marshmallows(same weight) for the fluff which are cheaper and easier to get. Instead of dark choc sometimes I use white choc and chopped apricots, but you can't use any pink marshmallow in that mix, only white as the fudge ends up orange :-)
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