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Liquor Filled Chocolates Recipe
Is there anything more delicious than homemade chocolate. Filled chocolates are very popular these days. Chocolates are filled with so many delicious ingredients. I am a fan of lindt liquor filled chocolates. Tasted it once and immediately loved it.
About Liquor Chocolates Recipe
Bite size chocolate morsels filled with your favorite liquor. Liquor Chocolates are one of the popular filled chocolate recipe. It can be quite complicated to make at home. But I have shared a version which can be easy to make at home. In this recipe I am sharing two version of filled chocolate. Liquor and mint filled chocolates are included in this recipe.
Ingredients for Liquor Chocolates
Chocolate Butter Confectioner sugar Liquor of choice Extracts
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How to Make Liquor Filled Chocolates
Melting Chocolate
Take chocolate in a microwave safe bowl preferably glass. Place chocolate bowl in microwave. Microwave chocolate at 20 seconds interval until chocolate is melted. it will take less than a minute. Remove the bowl every 20 seconds and gently mix using a spatula. Mix until all the chocolate is melted. Mix till smooth and set aside. If you don’t have microwave, you can melt chocolate in a double boiler. Place water in a sauce pan, bring it to a boil. Take chopped chocolate in a heat safe bowl, place the chocolate over the sauce pan of simmering water. Make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the simmering water. Use a spatula to gently mix the chocolate until it is all melted.
Assembling Liquor chocolates
Take a silicone chocolate mould. Spoon the melted chocolate in and spread evenly. Now put this in fridge or freezer and leave to set till chocolate hardens, it will take less than 5 mins. Make sure you get a thick layer of chocolate on the silicon mould. for achieving this You can even do double layer of chocolate coating. Once the first layer hardens, remove the silicon mould from freezer and add some more chocolate and coat again. Pop it back into the freezer to harden.
Liquor filling.
Mix filling ingredients till creamy. You just need a bowl and spoon or whisk to do this. The mixture has to be thick and spoonable. If it is too runny, you can refrigerate the filling for few minutes to harden.
Assembling Liquor Chocolates
Now take your silicon mould from freezer. spoon filling in, don’t over fill the mould. Just a tsp of filling would be plenty. Tap the silicon mould gently so the filling is evenly spread. Now spoon more melted chocolate over the filling and spread evenly. if the chocolate is over filled, you can scrape it gently using a spatula or bench scraper. put the mould back in fridge or freezer for 30 mins.
De moulding Chocolates
Remove the silicon mould from freezer and invert it on a parchment lined baking sheet. Use your fingers to gently remove each chocolates from the silicon mould. Since it is frozen hard it will release easily from silicon moulds. You can serve the chocolate immediately or wrap it with chocolate wrappers and store in fridge for later use. Pin If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook,Pinterest ,Youtube and Twitter for more Yummy Tummy inspiration.
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Liquor Filled Chocolate Step by Step Pictures
1)Melt some dark chocolate in microwave or using a double boiler. Pin 2)I melted it for 1 min, i took every 20 seconds and mixed it well and microwaved it again till it is completely melted Pin 3)You will need some silicone moulds Pin 4)Spoon chocolate in and coat evenly. Check written recipe for details. Pin 5)Pop this in fridge so the chocolate hardens Pin 6)Now lets make filling. I made two flavoured fillings. One is liquor chocolates and mint chocolate Pin 7)Add in icing sugar Pin 8)Add in mint extract in one bowl. You can add some green food colour in this too. Pin 9)Mix well Pin 10)In another bowl add in rum Pin 11)Mix well. the mix should be thick and creamy. Pin 12)Spoon filling into the chocolate Pin 13)Flatten it Pin 14)Pour chocolate on top. Put this in freezer for 1 hour. Pin 15)Unmould Pin 16)Serve Pin
Tips & Tricks
Use good quality chocolate for this recipe. It enhances the taste of the end product. You can use any extract in the filling to make the flavours you like. The filling has to be thick for easy filling. if the filling is runny, You can mix the filling and pop it in fridge for few minutes to harden. Transfer the filling to a piping bag and snip off the end. This makes the process easy. But you can use a spoon to do the filling too. Make sure you take your time to melt the chocolate. Don’t melt the chocolate in high temp else the chocolate will seize. When melting the chocolate in microwave melt it in 20 second interval else the chocolate may seize. When melting the chocolate in double boiler, make sure no water gets into the chocolate. Even 1 drop of water may seize the chocolate mixture. Silicon moulds are best for making filled chocolates, but other plastic moulds will work too. When spreading chocolate in silicon moulds make sure you get a thick coating and also even coating with no gaps. Else the filling may leak when un moulding. Freeze the chocolate solid before trying to de mould.
Flavour Variations
You can make any flavours of filled chocolates. Use the right flavours or extracts along with butter and icing sugar to make the particular flavours. Here are few of my flavour ideas for you.
Caramel
Make salted caramel sauce, cool it completely. Place it in fridge for few hours to harden. Transfer the thick caramel sauce to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Nutella
Transfer the nutella to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Hazelnut Nutella
Mix some finely chopped toasted hazelnuts into nutella. Transfer to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Blueberry
You can either use blueberry extract and purple food colouring into the butter and sugar. Blueberry preserves or freeze dried blueberry powder can be added into the butter sugar mix for added flavours. Transfer to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Strawberry
You can either use strawberry extract and pink food colouring into the butter and sugar. strawberry preserves or freeze dried strawberry powder can be added into the butter sugar mix for added flavours.Transfer to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Coconut
Dessicated coconut can be added into the butter and sugar mix.
Orange Truffles
Add few drops of orange extract and food colouring along with some grated orange zest and finely chopped candied oranges into the filling mixture.
Lemon Truffles
Add few drops of lemon extract and food colouring along with some lemon zest and finely chopped candied lemon peel into the filling mixture.
Peanut butter
Peanut butter can be mixed with icing sugar and butter to create the filling. Transfer to a piping bag. Pipe it into the chocolate & proceed as recipe.
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Using peanut butter as one layer and any of your favorite preserves or jelly as another layer as filling.
Raspberry
Add few drops of raspberry extract and food colouring along with some freeze dried raspberry powder into the icing sugar and butter mix.
Fruit & Nuts
finely chopped dried fruits and toasted nuts can be added into the butter sugar mix in the filling.
How long do homemade filled chocolates last?
I believe you must have done them well. Congratulations on having a special Valentine’s Day gift for your lover this year! Homemade chocolate with hearty decoration, I believe your lover will like this gift even more. The chocolate box can be decorated with custom custom Valentine’s Day stickers , printing your lover’s name, your love length, and what you want to say to her/him on Customsticker. You can choose the pattern, size, and text you want, and don’t forget to say Happy Valentine’s Day when you give it to her/him. 😀 Pin
