Adding Own Ingredients.

Hi,

I naturally have thought of adding my own ingredients to a 99% couverture chocolate I can get hold of. Is this an easy thing to do i.e can I
just simply add my own milk powder and cocoa butter to a melted chocolate? can I
add things like a liquor, Cognac or even fruit juice, for example juiced
straberries ect?

PS. Can I use liquid milk instead of powdered form? I'm from England and there's a chocolate bar that states it uses real milk.
Obviously I can't stand the thing now that I'm aware of decent
chocolate.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Kerry on March 28, 2010 at 10:51pm

Liquid milk, liquor or fruit juice can't be used in chocolate. It will cause the chocolate to seize. Those liquids can however be used if making a ganche.

You can add cocoa butter to couverature - however adding sugar may result in a grainy product. Sugar is generally added before the conching process insuring that the particle size becomes very small and thereby preventing it from be detected as crystalline by the tongue.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Wilton on March 28, 2010 at 11:07pm

Thanks for the information - Obviously I'm no Chocolatier yet would like to add my own ingredients where possible.

How about honey as a form of sweetning?

Thanks again.