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OneMoreRobot3021
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Chocolates
#2613465 - 04/28/04 09:24 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've got a couple of questions regarding mushroom chocolates:
1. What would be the process for turning 2 1/8ths of mushrooms into 2-4 chocolates? 2. Are mushroom chocolates drug-sniff-dog-detectable?
Lots of travelling plan, and I want my fungi nice and compact!
Thanks a lot guys.
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ChiefThunderbong
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#1 Melt chocolate, grind mushrooms into powder, mix well, fill mold, let solidify. #2 No. Dogs can't smell mushrooms, well they can smell them but are not trained to identify them.
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iloveraving
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Well first you want to grind them bad boys up real good in a coffee grinder. Then, you need to find yourself a mold that you want your chocolate to be in the shape of. I like stars, simple chocolate bar mold is quite on the downlow though. Then you need to go out and buy yourself some chocolate. Hershey's bars work fine, and you can use a one hershey bar to one eigth ratio. There are probably better chocolates to use out there, hersheys melts easily, but they work fine. Use more chocolate if you need to keep it more underwraps. Now, basically you want a small saute pan, smaller the better. Keep the heat real low, you want the chocolate to barely melt. Once it starts to ooze, dump your mushroom powder in there, and mix it up real quick being careful not to burn anything up. Then get it poured and scraped into your mould of choice. You have to be quick about it, otherwise the chocolate will start to turn from ooze back into a solid state in the saute pan... Which isnt good I'm sure there's better ways but this way has worked well on a small scale for someone..
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...hmmm, I'd have sworn there was a recipe for this under the recipes thread last year but it's gone now, go figure... Dry the shroomies under a ceiling fan with a black cloth over them. Light makes them weak or so I've been told. Then dry them in an Igloo type cooler till they are completely free of moisture by keeping Damp rid (dessicant)near them while they are drying. Keep the cooler lid cracked so the air circulates a tiny bit. Don't let them touch the pellets of Dri-Rite cuz the stuff's greasy and won't come off. When they're ready they will crumble into a powder like a cracker might when crushed in the hand. Grind them completely, mortar and pestle style. Heat the chocolate slowly in a covered saucepan. You don't want it too hot. With a rubber spatula, mix the powdered mushies 1.5-2 grams to an ounce(1 dose) of melted choc(semi-sweet covers the taste best), accepted dose by most cool ppl... You may want to use a cupcake tray. Line the cupcake holes with a square of aluminum foil big enough to wrap around one dose. Drop the spiked, melted choc into the hole & pat the tray on your palm till the chocolate is nice and flat. Let the choc cool. When it's hard, fold the foil around it tightly. Keep frozen or on ice. They're very tasty when cold. I hope this helps someone.
Edited by wandrnshaman (05/24/04 03:28 PM)
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wandrnshaman
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Re: Chocolates [Re: @cro]
#2634516 - 05/03/04 09:31 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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That's a good recipe too. I've just always used the Damp-rid dessicant instead of the coffee grinder. Personal choice, I guess, but you can't taste or see the shrooms in the chocs this way.
Edited by wandrnshaman (05/24/04 03:28 PM)
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John
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easiest way if you're only doing 2 eights is forget the pan and stove and all that mess and get some chocolate and a plastic cup, melt the chocolate in the cup in a microwave be careful not to melt the cup though. once the chocolate is melted just add the shrooms stir them in even and bang the cup on a counter to get it flat and even and put it in the fridege to get solid. once it's nice and hard just cut away the plastic cup, quick easy and no mess, the ones i make are always perfect little circles with the name of the cup imprinted to the top of it, looks pretty cool
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Re: Chocolates [Re: John]
#2669404 - 05/12/04 04:04 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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phenethyl said: easiest way if you're only doing 2 eights is forget the pan and stove and all that mess and get some chocolate and a plastic cup, melt the chocolate in the cup in a microwave be careful not to melt the cup though. once the chocolate is melted just add the shrooms stir them in even and bang the cup on a counter to get it flat and even and put it in the fridege to get solid. once it's nice and hard just cut away the plastic cup, quick easy and no mess, the ones i make are always perfect little circles with the name of the cup imprinted to the top of it, looks pretty cool
Wow, thats pretty easy. I might try that next time I need a couple made up real quick.
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