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If you have a little bit of a sweet tooth, what can be better than homemade chocolate candy?! Whether you just want something sweet that is made by your own hands, or whether you are making it to sell or for a party, it can be rewarding and an enjoyable experience. Making chocolate candy can be easy, especially if you use some of my top tips.

Chocolate is an oil based food, and as you well know, oil and water cannot be mixed together. This will cause the chocolate to split and will mean that you will no longer be able to use this. To stop this happening it is as simple as ensuring that everything you are using has been thoroughly dried after the last time it has been washed.

With the new technology, melting chocolate has now become much easier. You can simply do this in a microwave. To start off with, make sure that you are using small but even pieces of chocolate, broken up into a bowl which is suitable for the microwave. Then, start zapping! Put it in for thirty seconds, take it out and stir until it is melted. However, some people still experience problems with melting chocolate in microwaves. If this is the case then a home made bain marie will be just as good. Take bowl, fill it with boiling water, and then place another bowl over it - but not into the water. In the top bowl, put your chocolate, and stir it over the water until the heat completely melts it.

Although chocolate does taste lovely on its own, quite often adding a flavouring can really give your chocolate candy added appeal. It is easy to do, just buy flavouring specifically for chocolate candy making, or get something such as vanilla extract and add it into the melted chocolate yourself. The only tip with this is to make sure that it is as pure as possible. Any water in it and your chocolate could split, making it textured and unsuitable for eating.

All done? Well now the chocolate is ready to put into whatever mould you have chosen. To help make your chocolate candy look good, try to make sure that you have sharp edges and that your mould as no dints. You do not want to risk making an impression into your chocolate by accident because you have not taken good care of the mould that you are using.

If you leave your chocolate to cool on the side then you will often find that it has a dusty look over it. But there is an easy way to cool your chocolate fast, while ensuring a professional look. By putting it into the freezer, your chocolate will cool with a nice professional sheen over it, perfect for dinner parties or selling.

So those are the easy tips for making chocolate candy. Of course, there are some other little fancy things you can do. One great way to 'spice up' your chocolate candy is to add a little bit of an embellishment. For example, when it is dried, why not melt some white chocolate and add some decoration to it to give a contrasting flavour? With your homemade chocolate candy you can do whatever you want.
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