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Post by rosc2112 on May 19, 2008 5:36:56 GMT -5
Hi, I looked around the forum here, but didn't see anything related to making chocolate (like baker's bitter chocolate bars) from cocoa butter and cocoa powder. Is it possible to make a bar type chocolate from these 2 ingredients (blasphemy, perhaps? If so, does anyone have a basic recipe to use to experiment with? I have prime pressed scented cocoa butter, and cocoa powder (natural, not dutch process) is easy to come by. I tried making chocolate from cocoa butter & powder once, but that was before I knew about "seizing" and ended up making a grainy mess of it. I'm thinking if I had not added vanilla extract to the melted product it would've set up nicely into bars. The general recipe was very heavy on the cocoa butter, I was pretty much winging it. It tasted pretty good, all things considered Thanks in advance
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Post by sugaralchemy on May 27, 2008 15:42:02 GMT -5
Yes, but the taste is probably terrible. Follow any of the recipes posted here and replace the cocoa beans or cocoa liquor with half cocoa powder, half cocoa butter. This is a reasonable approximation. Once the cocoa powder and butter are melted and mixed together, you effectively have cocoa liquor (ground up, roasted cocoa beans.) Kind of analogous to making whole milk from skim milk and heavy cream...
Refer to existing directions and recipes otherwise. Never use ANY liquid. EVER.
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Post by Brad on May 27, 2008 15:56:06 GMT -5
I would make the following alterations to SugarAlchemy's percentages, as a lot of cocao powder still contains up to 10% cocoa butter.
55% Cocoa Powder 45% Cocoa Butter
IMPORTANT: Both Calculations are by weight, not volume.
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