Valentine's  Special:
Homemade Heart-shape Chocolate

Still worrying doesn’t know what to give to your love one? Why don't you just do it yourself! With this simple recipe, spent a little time, you can make your own chocolate that full with your love.

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• Chocolate, chopped coarsely (milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate)
• Nuts, raisins (optional)

• Heart-shaped candy mold (Try to get one that can handle high temperature)

• Sandwich bags (Zipper seal & Microwaveable)

• Scissors

1. Put chocolate into an open zipper sandwich bag.

2. Microwave chocolate in bag for 30-40 seconds or until melted. Or you can melt the chocolate by double boiler then pour the melted chocolate into sandwich bag. If you don’t have a double boiler, you can place the chocolate in a clean stainless-steel bowl and set the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering (not boiling) water. You do not want the bottom of the bowl to come directly in contact with the water below nor the water to be boiling and spewing up large masses of steam, which could fall into the chocolate and turn it lumpy. Also, do not cover the bowl or double boiler because steam could collect under the lid and fall back into the chocolate, causing the mass to harden and become grainy. As the chocolate begins to melt, stir it, working the chocolate from the sides of the bowl into the center mass. When the chocolate pieces are almost entirely melted, remove the bowl from the heat, stir, and let the remaining chocolate melt by the heat of the larger mass.

3. Cut one corner of the sandwich bag with scissors to squeeze melted chocolate through. Caution: Bag may be hot, so use paper towel or a pot holder to handle it.

4. Gently squeeze chocolate out of sandwich bag into the molds. Leave some space and don’t make it too full if you wish to add some nuts or raisins into the chocolate.

5. Now, you can add in some nuts or raisins into chocolate if you wish to. Then check each chocolate, if feel that the molds is not full enough, squeeze some more chocolate to full it. This make sure the chocolate come out with nice shape.

6. Tap the side of the mold tray to knock out any air bubbles and flatten chocolate.

7. Place in refrigerator until set.

8. Pop the chocolate out of molds and pack with a beautiful packaging.

9. Final step, give it to your love one.

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