One of the highlights of our candy camp week was making our own chocolate. No, not melting chocolate and molding it, but actually MAKING chocolate! The folks over at Glee Gum make these really fun kits where you can craft your own gum, chocolate or gummies.
You get cocoa butter, cocoa powder, sugar and some other stuff (my memory ain't what it used to be) and you stir it all up and heat it and do some incantations and wave your magic chocolate wand over it and taa daa! Smooth, dark chocolate. The little von Schokolats used it to make all sorts of things: chocolate bunnies and eggs, chocolate cups with crunchy caramel bits and chocolate-covered peanut butter balls.
The chocolate was a little too bitter for Gretl, but Liesel, the dark chocolate aficianado, loved it. Kudos go to whoever created the kit. The instructions were easy and everything went as it should, as opposed to the lip balm and hand cream we tried to make later in the week. Oy, that was a disaster. Nothing says fun like hot wax, smelly oils and bad directions. But the chocolate kit was most definitely a fun project for a snowy winter day.
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