How To Melt Chocolate

Author: Victoria Aly Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Chocolate is one of the most popular confectionery materials. Chocolate is added to the dough, excellent desserts and creams are made from chocolate. Cakes and pastries are glazed with melted chocolate.

How to melt chocolate at home

Often for work we need to melt chocolate. And for this, some nuances should be taken into account, since chocolate is easy to overheat and it will lose its properties, become grainy, lose both taste and beautiful appearance. When melting chocolate, keep these secrets in mind:

- Heat on a low and slow fire. When overheated, lumps and grains may appear. The optimum temperature for melting chocolate is 55°C for dark chocolate and 45°C for milk and white chocolate.

Do not melt a large piece of chocolate or a whole bar. Grind it before the furnace. Small pieces will be heated quickly and evenly, and a large piece may overheat from below, and not even heat up from above.

Stir the chocolate constantly while tempering. This will melt the chocolate for decorating the cake quickly and evenly.

- Never allow chocolate to come into contact with water. Water that gets into chocolate will immediately change the properties of chocolate for the worse.

Recipes with dark chocolate ingredient

Option 1

in a water bath

Option 2

in the microwave

Ingredients:

Water
Chocolate black

We will need:

Pot
Board kitchen
Knife
Bowl
A spoon

How to melt chocolate in a water bath step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need dark chocolate - 100 g, a bowl, a knife, a saucepan, water, a kitchen board, a spoon.

Step 2

Chop chocolate.

Step 3

Put in a bowl. Place the bowl of chocolate on top of the pot of hot water. The water bath should not touch the bottom of the bowl, and the diameter of the bowl should not be smaller than the diameter of the pan. The heated water should have a temperature of 70-80°C.

Step 4

The chocolate will start to melt quickly. It must be stirred all the time.

Step 5

When 2/3 of the chocolate has melted, remove the bowl from the heat and continue stirring. Due to the fact that the bowl is warm, all the chocolate will melt completely in 5-8 seconds.

Step 6

The melted chocolate is ready to go.

Ingredients:

Chocolate black

We will need:

Bowl
A spoon
Microwave

How to melt chocolate in the microwave step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

To make chocolate liquid, we need dark chocolate (100 grams), a bowl, a spoon, a microwave.

Step 2

Break up the chocolate and place in a small microwave safe bowl.