Valentine’s Day is a day when you want to demonstrate your affection
towards your loved ones with unique Valentines gift ideas. It could be friends,
relatives, parents and spouse. You may simply buy an available gift from stores or order online gifts, but gifting them homemade chocolates is one of the best ways
to make them feel happy. There are a number of recipes you could try out.
Given below are few of those recipes.
Recipe 1: Strawberries with
chocolate coating
This is a simple recipe where you take fresh strawberries and coat them
with layer of chocolate.
Ingredients – Half liter chocolate chip milk, half a kilogram of fresh
strawberries, 2 tablespoons of shortening.
Method – In a double boiler, boil the chocolate chip milk till it
thickens a little. Add the shortening to the mixture. Take strawberries by the
toothpicks and dip them into the chocolate sauce till they get coated by a
thick layer of chocolate sauce. Keep them out to cool. Decorate them with icing
sugar and arrange them on a tray.
Image 1 :Strawberry chocolate
Recipe 2: Orange flavored chocolates
This recipe makes chocolate truffles with orange flavor.
Ingredients – 3 big spoons of thick milk cream, 8 nos ( 2 ounces) of
chopped semisweet chocolate squares, 2 spoons of orange juice concentrate, ¼ cup butter,
1 spoon of grated orange zest, 1 spoon of oil.
Method – Take cream and butter in a saucepan and place it over medium
flame and allow it to boil. Once it starts boiling remove from fire. Mix the
orange juice, 4 nos of chocolate squares and zest into it. Stir it till it
becomes smooth. Pour into a loaf pan and chill for 2 hours. Then make small
shapes of this with a spoon and line them on a baking sheet with wax paper.
Chill the truffles again for 2 hours.
Next take a double boiler with little water simmering. Melt the
remaining 4 squares of chocolate along with oil, by placing it in a container
on top of the double boiler. Allow it to cool. Drop in the truffles into this
lukewarm sauce till it gets coated nicely. Transfer coated truffles back to
baking sheet and chill again for 2 hours. Decorate it with icing sugar and
arrange them on a tray.
Image 2: Orange flavored chocolates
Recipe 3: Ladybug Love Truffles
Ingredients- Thick cream- 1 cup, 2 cups of chopped chocolate, 12 oz of
red candy (for coating), 2 oz of White candy coating, 4 oz of chocolate candy
coating and two paper cones.
Image 3 : Ladybug Love Truffles
Method- Place the chopped chocolate in a bowl. Bring the cream to simmer
in a saucepan. Once the cream starts boiling, pour it over the chopped
chocolate bits. Once the mixture cools, whip the mixture. Wrap the bowl with a
cling film and let it set for 30 minutes in refrigerator. Coat your hands with
cocoa powder and scoop the mixture into few tiny balls and few bigger ones.
Melt the chocolate candy coating in a small pan. Dip the smaller balls in it to make heads and press them to the bigger ones
which make the body of the bug.
Melt the red and white chocolate candy coating to give the bugs the
color of their body. Let the truffle set in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to
1 hour if it starts melting at the room temperature.
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gift ideas with your loved ones and make the day a memorable one for the years
to come.
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