Introduction: Chocolate Tray
Most of the chocolates are soft-centered chocolates.
Step 1: Little Beads Buttons
These are the only non soft-centered chocolates on the tray :) Super easy and super quick to make. All you need, to make at least 5 buttons
50 gram milk chocolate
Little Beads
Round bottom chocolate mold
Melt chocolate in microwave, at 30 seconds intervals, stirring each time
Place little beads on mold's cavities and pour melted chocolate covering the beads
Chill until harden and unmold
Step 2: Nutella Cream Chocolates
100 g dark chocolate (or semisweet or bittersweet)
Filling (this is a base creamy filling that you can flavor as you wish either with food flavoring or homemade jam/custard/preserves):
700 g soft curd cottage cheese, either homemade or store bought
1 envelope vanilla sugar (at No Frills or Safeway)
a couple drops of lemon oil
10 g gelatin bloomed in 50 g water, heat in microwave for 10 seconds
5 tbsp icing sugar
Beat everything in a mixer until creamy then chill in the fridge for half hour before using
Mix 2-3 tbsp of filling (reserve the rest for other pastries/cakes/chocolates/breads/sweets) with generous 1-2 tbsp Nutella until combined
Melt dark chocolate and fill up mold, tap upside down, chill in freezer for 5 minutes
Fill up cavities with Nutella mixture and pour melted chocolate
Chill until harden.
Step 3: Double Chocolate Cranberry
Dried cranberries, as many as you'd like to make
100 g dark chocolate or milk chocolate
100 g white chocolate chips
Melt dark chocolate and dip dried cranberries. Place on parchment paper and chill to harden (or room temperature is fine as well)
Melt chocolate chips and fill mold cavities, turn upside down and tap, chill in freezer for 5 minutes
Drop a cranberry into each cavity and pour chocolate chips covering it
Chill in freezer for 15 minutes
Step 4: Dark Chocolate With Lemon Creme
100 g dark chocolate
From the previous creamy filling base, take about 1-2 tbsp and add a pinch or two grated lemon rind and mix
Melt dark chocolate, fill up mold, tap upside down and chill in the freezer for 5 minutes
Fill up cavities with filling and pour more chocolate on top
Chill in the freezer for 15 minutes
Step 5: Chestnut Filled
100 g white chocolate chips
Enough of chestnut puree
Melt chocolate chips and fill up mold, tap upside down and freeze for 5 minutes
Fill up cavities with chestnut puree and pour melted chocolate on top, freeze for 15 minutes