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I wanted to try a chocolate ball which is made of:

  • condensed milk
  • a little almond powder
  • raisins

I mix these ingredients into a soft ball and then I want to cover the bar with chocolate that can survive a Southern Indian climate.

I do have moulds of different shapes so I wanted to try this one but the original recipe instruction was to get bitter chocolate and then roughly chopped chocolate has to be microwaved to bring it to a liquid consistency so that it can be filled in piping bags.

Could you please let me know what kind of chocolate to use?

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  • Welcome to Seasoned advice! ;-) Could you please edit your question and: share the recipe, tell us what climate you're in, how long you want to store them, ... In other words: Tell us what you're trying to achieve so we can give you the perfect answer as there is a ton of different kinds of chocolate out there
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    Sep 12, 2018 at 11:18
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    Sure will try it and let you know.
    – user23599
    Sep 14, 2018 at 0:43

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I would use the hardest local dark chocolate I could find that does not melt easily as the other ingredients are quite sweet already and you don't need more sweetness.

However, as I'm advising hard chocolate, microwaving will be out of the question and as you're a beginner, I would melt the chocolate "Au bain marie" instead:

Au Bain Marie

Nearly fill a big kettle with water and submerge a second smaller kettle inside it and then put the chocolate inside kettle 2 and put the entire contraption on your stove. Please ensure the inner kettle has a lid on it so that no moisture from the boiling water gets into the chocolate!

Once the chocolate has melted, try putting your pinky in the melted chocolate: if you can keep your pinky in the chocolate for 5 seconds without burning yourself, it's at the right temperature. ;-) If you have a thermometer, let it cool down to above whatever the melting point was (measure while melting: it depends on the chocolate.)

Take a soup spoon full of chocolate and put the ball inside and then drip some more chocolate on top with a coffee spoon: this will not only make it easier for a first try, but will also look good as you'll get that "dripped" home-made effect.

If you have good moulds, fill them half up with chocolate, then put your ball inside and then close them: the ball should now be encased in chocolate.

Whichever method you use: put them in the fridge for cooling down and take them out one hour before serving.

Enjoy!

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  • Although high-power microwaving will screw up most first time chocolatiers, so can a bain marie if they get moisture into the chocolate, and it seizes. You can fix seized chocolate by adding more liquid, but that would ruin it for making a hard shell
    – Joe
    Sep 13, 2018 at 17:46
  • @Joe True! Thanks! clarified answer... (although the pic shows a lid, this was not clear from the text)
    – Fabby
    Sep 13, 2018 at 18:17

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