I don’t usually crave chocolate. Last week, I literally had a craving for dark chocolate. I never buy store-bought chocolate. I’m more afraid of the preservatives and other additives than the sugar. Besides, it’s so easy to make at home, and I never get the same taste from store-bought chocolate. It has that intense dark chocolate flavor! 🙂

Ingredients:

For the chocolate:

* 30 grams of cocoa butter. This is essential. It’s what makes chocolate, chocolate. I’ve also tried it with coconut oil. That’s also nice, but you can’t hold it in your hand; it melts immediately. I bought 200 grams of cocoa butter for 18 TL. That’s 5 pieces of chocolate from 30 grams. So, for 5 pieces of chocolate, it’s 2.72 TL. That’s 55 kuruş per chocolate. It’s not expensive at all. And I think it lasts a long time once you buy it.

* 1.5 tbsp cocoa

* 2.5 tbsp molasses

For the filling:

2 tbsp raisins

2 tbsp dried cranberries

1 handful of almonds, coarsely chopped

1 handful of hazelnuts, coarsely chopped

1 handful of hazelnuts, coarsely chopped

I have some of this filling left over; you can make a smaller amount. By the way, you can change the ingredients with any dried fruits and nuts you like. I turned the rest into granola 🙂 I’ll make a separate post about that.

It’s very simple to make… Believe me, writing it takes longer than making it 🙂

I melted the cocoa butter using the bain-marie method. You can see how to do it in my Chocolate Flour Halva recipe. I also showed it step-by-step in my Sugar-Free Chocolate recipe.

Once the butter was melted, I added the cocoa and molasses to obtain the chocolate part.

At the same time, I mixed the filling ingredients on the other side and poured them into the silicone molds, one tablespoon at a time.

I poured about 2-2.5 tablespoons of melted chocolate into the molds.

After this step, all that’s left is freezing it. After 30 minutes in the freezer, you can transfer it to the refrigerator. Your chocolate will be ready in 1 hour. It’s incredibly delicious 🙂

This tastes exactly like dark chocolate. You can increase the amount of molasses if you like. It has about 80% dark chocolate flavor, but the dried fruits inside give it a sweet taste.

By the way, if you don’t have cocoa butter at home and want to make this right away, large supermarkets sell 99% cocoa chocolate. You can melt 7-8 squares of that chocolate in a double boiler and add the molasses at the end, but it will be more expensive 🙂