Mini Chocolate Hearts

These are cute, little gift ideas for birthdays or valentines day. They are also very easy to make! Happy baking!

Ingredients: 

300g of 70% coco Milk chocolate couverture buttons

Method:

1. Pour two-thirds of your chocolate into a heatproof bowl, and melt over a saucepan half filled with water. The base of the bowl should not touch the water otherwise the chocolate would melt too quickly. Also don't boil the water, keep it to a gentle simmer. Occasionally stir the chocolate until it's all melted.

2. Take the chocolate off the heat and wrap the base of the bowl in a tea towel, so the chocolate doesn't melt too quickly. Then pour the remaining chocolate into the melted chocolate, and stir until all of the chocolate has been melted.

3. Make sure the mould is clean and dry then use a teaspoon to fill each of the heart moulds ,using another teaspoon to scape any excess chocolate off the spoon. Don't worry if you spill any chocolate over the mould. Fill all of the rows of hearts. Then gently vibrate and tap the mould so the chocolate spreads into all of each heart.

4. Scrape any excess chocolate that has spilt onto the mould off with a pallet knife then return it to the bowl. Set the chocolates in the fridge until firm.

5. Once set flex the mould and the chocolates should pop out. Trim the edges of the chocolate and arrange them in a box to give as a gift or you could just eat them!

Happy Baking.Beth x

Categories: Chocolate, Moulds