Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips for Milk Chocolate Candy

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Rudy S

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I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips -- the
little teeny tiny ones, but he got the big chocolate chips. Now I've got
two extra bags of chocolate chips that I don't want to use so I thought I
might try to melt them down to make some chocolate candy with a variety of
chopped nuts in it. But I don't like the taste of semi-sweet chocolate as
a candy. I want to melt it, sweeten it to make it more like milk
chocolate, mix in some chopped almonds, pecans and walnuts, then drop onto
waxed paper to cool.

Now how do I go about converting these rather bitter, semi-sweet chocolate
chips into something sweeter without ending up with a mess?

Damaeus
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, Nancy2 posted on Mon,
14 Feb 2011 10:28:32 -0800 (PST) the following:


But not if it had been penetrated with a tiny little needle like you'd see
on the end of an insulin syringe. You could squirt a little cat piss into
a bag of chocolate chips and whoever buys them would not discover it until
they get them home. "Eww, what is this liquid!" Sure, you could exchange
those, but who wants to go through the inconvenience?

Damaeus
 
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:38:07 -0500, Cheryl
wrote:


I thought it was a posting mistake. In any case he didn't announce
he'd be posting under a different name. Sheldon, Kat and Terry were
out in the open.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article ,
Damaeus wrote:


"Something sweeter. . . . " Melt them with some corn syrup until the
syrup bubbles, then stir until smooth. Stir in a can of sweetened
condensed milk. Viola. Hot fudge sauce.

--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:35:51 -0600, Damaeus
wrote:

Your plate is full, but at least you know what you're dealing with.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, Sqwertz posted on Mon,
14 Feb 2011 06:33:31 -0600 the following:


Probably because he didn't read the package carefully before putting them
into the shopping cart. He often does things like that. We like regular
sour cream, but occasionally he accidentally picks up the light sour cream
and even he gets upset at himself over that. Additionally, we use whole
milk. One time he accidentally picked up 2% because while Wal-Mart's
whole milk uses a red cap, HEB's whole milk uses a purple cap and their 2%
milk uses a red cap. He got the red-cap milk at HEB, so that's how he
accidentally purchased 2% milk. He likes to keep heavy whipping cream at
home for things like mashed potatoes. Occasionally he accidentally gets
the fat-free cream. When I tell him about it, he says, "Aw, I meant to
get the regular kind." He doesn't read the packaging carefully enough to
make sure he's getting what he really wants.

Damaeus
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, Andy posted on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:53:06
-0600 the following:


I like long links, not shortened ones. For all I know, that could take me
to http://hak.kpfjl.ru/kak399/scr.asp

I wish alturl.com site offered a way for us to paste links like yours into
a field so we can see the link that will be loaded into our browsers.

Damaeus
 
In article , [email protected]
says...

My (only) crown is on a molar, and it's gold. I chose gold because
my dentist asked me what kind of food I eat (chewy/crunchy stuff; steak,
whole apples, raw veg, nuts, toffee) then said "go for gold, you won't
break it. If you want porcelain, change your eating habits".

Janet
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, Melba's Jammin'
posted on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:51:22 -0600 the following:


Oh of course. That's how I imagined myself doing it. We have an electric
ice cream freezer and it's very soft once it's as frozen as it can get in
the ice cream freezer.

Damaeus
 
"notbob" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...


I agree! The OP doesn't even make sense. He ASKED for "mini" semi-sweet
chocolate chips in the post. What he got was a couple of bags of the
regular sized semi-sweet chocolate chips. So what? What's the difference
from the other than the size? Why is he suddenly thinking they should be
milk chocolate chips? And what did he expect this friend to do, go back to
the store for him? Unless he's an invalid I suggest he go get his own
chocolate chips.

Jill
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, "[email protected]" posted on
Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:31:51 -0800 (PST) the following:


I wouldn't have thought of powdered milk. Thanks for the tip. :-)

A message to other posters in this thread: See how easy this was? This
guy ignored my little backstory about how I ended up with large semi-sweet
chocolate chips and went straight to the point. :D

Damaeus
 
In article ,
Sqwertz wrote:

Sounds more like this is a newish addition.


I wouldn't go that far, but it's going to go, it's going to go. My crown
fell off when I was eating turkey (it was tender turkey), mashed potatoes,
and gravy. Those potatoes were whipped to perfection, not a lump in them.

That was because years of dental neglect (I'm better now, thanks) meant
the underlying tooth was essentially gone. The take-home lesson is not
"don't eat mashed potatoes", but "brush/floss/visit your dentist
regularly". If the tooth with the crown is feeling tender, SEE YOUR
DENTIST.

I think I got the crown originally put on shortly after I got out of
college, so it lasted me a quarter century even with my problems. It did
come off once before, but they were able to reattach it then. This is a
standard dental service and if you manage to not swallow or otherwise lose
the crown, is not an expensive procedure.

Charlotte


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On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:06:16 -0600, Damaeus
wrote:


Because what you're asking wasn't clear. Did you want to know how to
turn your semi sweet chocolate into milk chocolate or did you want
recipes using semisweet?

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:24:53 -0000, Janet wrote:

There's some sort of composite used in the US that looks like
porcelain, but they don't call it porcelain and it really will last
longer than the tooth enamel. I guess there are ways to break it if
you tried on purpose, but that's true with anything.


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In news:rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith posted on
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:45:23 -0500 the following:


That would be funny since we live in the same house and share all the same
groceries.


I guess I'm abnormal because I like tiny dots of chocolate in my cookies,
not big fat wads of it.


That's because I'm tired of cookies. I want something besides cookies.
When I get ready to make cookies again, I'll get mini chocolate chips.

Damaeus
 
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