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Post by dyadcacao on Oct 8, 2023 11:22:07 GMT -5
Hi! I'm preparing to launch my business and want to offer some jars of chocolate hazelnut spread along with my bars. Wondering whether anyone has played with recipes for this? I'd like to make a dark natural product, probably just nibs, roasted hazelnuts, and palm sugar. I'd like to avoid emulsifiers and stabilizers and am wondering whether that will be a disaster, or just a 'stir before using' scenario. Curious what ratios produce a thick but spreadable product at room temperature. I would love to hear of others' experiences and will continue to post about my process.
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Post by Ben on Oct 9, 2023 11:07:04 GMT -5
I make a hazelnut chocolate spread with just hazelnuts and chocolate (cacao, sugar, cocoa butter). It works great. I just refine hazelnuts in a stone grinder and then mix them with the melted chocolate. It needs to be 'tempered' sorta, by cooling it down to about 80F before pouring into jars. Otherwise the cocoa butter tends to separate a bit and form little solid bits. They're not really a problem if you're going to be spreading this on something warm as they'll just melt, but they're ugly and if you can feel them if you just eat a spoonful of it.
Since the spreadability comes from the fat in the hazelnuts, you'll need to have a pretty high ratio of hazelnut to chocolate. Pretty easy to mess around with to figure out your ideal ratio.
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Post by telstar on Nov 23, 2023 17:44:56 GMT -5
Hi! I'm preparing to launch my business and want to offer some jars of chocolate hazelnut spread along with my bars. Wondering whether anyone has played with recipes for this? I'd like to make a dark natural product, probably just nibs, roasted hazelnuts, and palm sugar. I'd like to avoid emulsifiers and stabilizers and am wondering whether that will be a disaster, or just a 'stir before using' scenario. Curious what ratios produce a thick but spreadable product at room temperature. I would love to hear of others' experiences and will continue to post about my process. palm oil and cocoa butter help in that regard.
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