Valentine DIYs - Muji's Heart Shaped Chocolate Crunch

As promised, here’s the Handmade Chocolate kit.

This set allows you to make roughly 32 pieces of chocolates (16 Heart-Shapes and 16 Squares). This looks like Royce’s Nama Chocolates, but it’s not! It’s going to be your own Handmade chocolates.

So the set contains these things:

Included in the kit:	External ingredients:	Utensils and Equipment:
1 bag of chocolate (100g)	45ml of Heavy Whipping Cream	Refrigerator
1 bag of Cocoa Powder	5ml of Liquor (Optional)	1 Big Bowl (for Hot Water)
1 Heart-Shape Mould	Hot Water	1 Small Bowl (for Chocolate)
1 gift box with paraffin paper		Silicon Spatula or Spoon
1 English Recipe		Tea Strainer
		Baking sheet or Cling film
		Knife

Note:

-Make sure all the bowls and utensils are dry

-Make sure water does not get into the chocolates when melting as they will sieze

-If chocolate melts too quickly, pop them in the fridge again for some time before getting started again

So let’s get started

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First, fold up the cardboard box and line both squares with paper or cling film and set aside. Make sure there is no holes in the paper or film otherwise the chocolate will flow into the box.

Second, melt the cream and chocolate over the hot bath. Stir the mixture until the chocolate melts and is creamy. Then you can add liquor here. We added rum to the chocolate.

Third, pour the chocolate equally into the boxes lined with paper/cling film and smooth out the surface. Put the boxes into the refrigerator for more than 1 hour. (Not very smooth we know be we did our best)

Fourth, use the heart-shape mould to cut out heart-shaped chocolates. Cut out about 16 pieces and pour the remaining into a bowl. Refrigerate the heart-shape chocolates.

Fifth, melt the remaining chocolate over a hot bath, pour into 1 lined box and refrigerate the chocolate for more than 1 hour.

Sixth, put the knife in hot water to warm up the knife and wipe it dry. Then cut the chocolate into 16 squares.

Seventh, put cocoa powder into the tea strainer and sprinkle the cocoa powder over both heart-shape and square chocolates. Refrigerate them again if necessary.

Eighth, put the paraffin paper in the bottom box. Place chocolates in the box using chopsticks and arrange in a checker board pattern and…………

TA-DAH! Delicious handmade chocolates for your valentine!

The combination of the bitter cocoa powder and the sweetness of the chocolates makes these chocolates just so heavenly. With a faint taste of rum, it just tastes so rich and creamy! These chocolates may not look picture perfect like in those on the box but then it shows that they are homemade and not store bought chocolates. Buy some cute toothpicks from Daiso and use them to eat these chocolates to avoid getting your hands dirty.

A word of caution though, these chocolates are actually smaller than they appear to be. The box is only 10 cm by 10 cm so you can imagine how small the box is. Also, consider you surrounding temperature. If the weather is too hot like in Singapore, try to move fast and you might need to refrigerate the chocolates more.

What we like about this kit is that the ingredients can be bought from supermarkets. Just get the chocolate couverture, cream and cocoa powder and you are set. The only trouble is finding such a small box and adjusting the amount of ingredients. But it will all work out if you manage to keep the box clean, you can reuse it to make chocolates again!

Happy valentines! Til next time.