Is it possible to make a milk chocolate candy bar at home?
Actually making chocolate from cocoa beans requires tons of specialized, expensive equipment. It’s not something you can do at home. You can, however, buy what’s called couverture, which is chocolate in it’s basic form – untempered and ready to be melted, tempered, molded, etc. You can learn all about the process here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#T… and here http://www.cookingforengineers.com/artic… Anyone can melt some chocolate chips and pour them into a mold. However, actually making a chocolate with a beautiful glossy finish that ‘snaps’ when you break it instead of bending or crumbling but still has a silky, melt-in-your mouth texture requires a good quality couverture (which is available in milk chocolate as well as dark chocolate – Valrhona is good brand that is readily available in b
