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Old 18 Jul 19, 07:37 AM  
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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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Old 18 Jul 19, 07:46 AM  
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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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I also use galaxy and just do it gently and slowly as above
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Old 18 Jul 19, 07:48 AM  
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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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Old 18 Jul 19, 08:28 AM  
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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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Old 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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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!
break into bits, microwave on full for 30 secs, stir. microwave for 30 secs, stir. repeat until fully melted. usually takes no more than 4x30 second bursts... never had an issue with that method...
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break into bits, microwave on full for 30 secs, stir. microwave for 30 secs, stir. repeat until fully melted. usually takes no more than 4x30 second bursts... never had an issue with that method...
It usually seems to go grainy for me when I do it like that.
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Old 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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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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