By: Muna Wa Wanjiru
Given the great taste match between coffee and chocolate, no wonder there is
a whole variety of sweets combining the two: chocolate candies with coffee
filling, chocolate covered coffee beans, chocolate and coffee cakes and so on.
You really don't have to be a chef to prepare some of the most delicious of
desserts: for instance chocolate covered coffee beans are easy to make at
home.
All you need is quality coffee beans and some chocolate chips to melt. What
you have to do is drop the coffee beans in liquid chocolate, take them out and
let the hot chocolate cool on a waxed surface. It is usually advisable to let
them harden for at least six or eight hours before serving them or even more
simply than that: use the freezer!
For even more delicious flavors you may add vanilla or hazelnut powder to the
liquid chocolate or you may roll the chocolate covered coffee beans through such
a mix while the composition is still hot. This kind of dessert makes an
excellent choice for a party treat, and you can be 100% sure the guests will
appreciate it.
Chocolate covered coffee beans that you make at home could be even more
special if white chocolate is used for the dripping. Chips usually come in a
variety of flavors: there is dark or semi-sweet chocolate that preserves the
taste of roasted coffee beans unchanged. One thing you should be careful about
is that the coffee beans be high quality; buy something you are familiar with or
go for the grocer's recommendation.
Several highly effective tricks can be made when preparing chocolate covered
coffee beans: first of all, there is no restriction about using two different
types of chocolate for the coating. However, make sure there are no contrasting
flavors used; for instance, white milk chocolate and hazelnut dark chocolate
could be the perfect combination.
If you want to give the chocolate covered coffee beans a more intense cocoa
flavor, you can use some extra cocoa powder to pass the candies through when
they are not cool yet. Or another trick here relies on the use of mint candy
powder to make the chocolate covered coffee beans a bit spicy.
Regardless of the choice of ingredients, the home making of this dessert
requires a lot of care concerning the temperature of the melting chocolate in
which you drip the coffee beans; sometimes a steam bath is more adequate to use
once the chocolate has reached the boiling point.
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