This week, when they got to my house Niina told me she brought pretzel rods, chocolate chips and Andes mint baking chips because for dessert she wanted to try and recreate some dipped pretzels she had seen on Pinterest.
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| Photo and tutorial of non-fail pretzel rods from Rhodey Girl Tests |
So we dumped the bag of chocolate chips in a glass measuring cup and put it in a pan of boiling water to do something kind of double boiler style without, you know, a real double boiler.
And it started to work but the chocolate needed to be thinner. Thinking the thickness of the glass was what was preventing it from getting meltier (that's totally a word), we popped it in the microwave.
And a weird thing started happening....the chocolate actually started clumping together and getting lumpy and hard.
So we put it back in the "double boiler" but it was no use. The chocolate itself kind of tasted like fudge but wasn't going to be suitable for dipping.
So we moved on to plan B: I had some pink colored "white chocolate" candy wafers in the back of my pantry. The instructions on the bag specifically said you could microwave them. So we put them in a bowl and microwaved in 30 second intervals until they were melty. But after dipping a couple of pretzels, we realized it really wasn't very runny so we tried microwaving some more to make it melt again....and the same thing happened! It started getting clumpy and hard. We managed to salvage some of the clumpy dip...got it on the pretzels and sprinkled it with chopped andes baking mints.
And they tasted awesome. But they were definitely not a pretty sight. Puke on a stick, anyone?
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So funny, thanks for the laugh. Most of my baking/cooking goes the same way.
ReplyDeleteI love the chocolate dipped pretzels, sorry yours didn't come out the first time. I actually posted about making chocolate dipped pretzels a few weeks ago. http://www.alwaysinwonder.com/2011/11/chocolate-dipped-pretzels-and-giveaway.html
ReplyDeleteWhen you do the glass bowl over a pot of boiling water you don't want your glass touching the water, you just want the heat and steam coming up from the water to melt the chocolate. Hope you give the pretzels another try, they are so yummy and addicting.
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ReplyDeletethats called seizing been there done that
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cookingforengineers.com/article/155/Tempering-Chocolate
I always use a double boiler or just boil water in a pan put the chocolate in a pyrex bowl and set on top turn off heat!!!!never put in on the burner you will never fail if you do it this way.