Got a bit of a shock when the recipe says to use semisweet chocolate chips and they show up for $56 at Woolies… I guess dark chocolate chips would be better…
Also the coconut oil in bottles seems pricey. Copha is cheaper.
Hang on. Copha. Dark chocolate chips. We’re making chocolate crackles, aren’t we? 🤤
I also kinda wish I didn’t notice the Homemade dark chocolate recipe at the bottom of the page 😬. If I’m gonna make one, I should really try the other…
Yikes! Tell em they’re dreaming. Really I think any kind of chocolate would probably do. Chopped bar chocolate is cheaper and actually melts better as chips are made to hold their shape when baked. The Coles Belgian dark chocolate is very decent for the price.
I have seen coconut oil in jars at Aldi that didn’t seem too expensive but I’ve forgotten how much now. Edit: About $4 for a 300g jar. Or $3.60 for 250g at Coles. Copha would be interesting though, it might set harder.
It may not work out that much cheaper in the end, but seems like the quality would be higher and you wouldn’t have as long a list of weird ingredients like in the store bought choc top hard shells.
As an aside, I was surprised to find this ‘oil’ was totally solid. It had the same consistency as a bar of copha, and I couldn’t even put a spoon into it. I had to nuke it in the microwave to get any out.
I used this recipe and used about 1 row and 2 squares from the next row of chocolate (so a little less than a 1/4 of the chocolate) and 2 tsp (10g) of coconut oil. This made enough for 2 serves for me, but I don’t drown my ice cream. So, one 200g chocolate would make about 8 serves. And one 300g jar of coconut oil would make about 60 serves.
Now for the important part; how did it look, how was the consistency and taste?
Once it was melted, I used a spoon to drizzle it over my ice cream. It flowed nicely, and after a short while, created a nice shell. I may have added a bit more of this than the usual Ice Magic, so in some spots, it did seem a bit thicker. But a couple of cracks with a spoon and no problem. It looked lush, and the consistency was good.
Now on to the taste. I’m a simple man. I put this over vanilla ice cream. I want to taste vanilla and chocolate. But in some cases there was a definitive taste of coconut. Now, the ratio of chocolate topping to ice cream varies by spoonful to spoonful. There were some spoonfuls I was thinking, “OMG this is soooooo much better. The choccy is delicious, and a very subtle hint of coconut with the vanilla”, and other spoonfuls I was thinking “WTF, I get chocolate, but the coconut is obliterating any vanilla in the ice cream! No!”
So, I might experiment with the next batch by cutting back a little on the coconut oil, and see how that goes. The other option is to embrace the coconuty in something different. I’m thinking a white choccy with a coconut might be interesting to try. Seeing as I have about 7 bars of chocolate to buy to get rid of this jar of coconut oil, I can experiment 😁
That sounds great. I hear that the coconut taste is less strong with more refined coconut oils. If you’re having issues using the oil up it’s also a general cooking oil for things like curries
I wonder if that is a regional name for it. I don’t think I ever knew a generic name for it, growing up on the west coast. I always knew it as Magic Shell, which I think is a brand name
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