Tempering chocolate

melting chocolate

3/4 bag or semi sweet chocolate chips or 8 oz of baking semisweet chocolate broken into pieces

place a pot of water on stove and heat up, place another bowl or pot on top of water and place 2 tsp of vegetable shortening in bowl then your chocolate and melt chocolate until smooth or about 100℉ is read with a laser thermometer or candy thermometer.

once melted place on a towel over a cold pack or place bowl in a bowl of ice water and stir in the rest of the bag of chocolate chips or the 4 oz of baking semisweet chocolate and stir until smooth or until the thermometer reads around 80.

replace over warm pot of water to bring back the chocolate temperature to 90.

you may now use this chocolate to make your designs on parchment paper or use this chocolate to make chocolate cover strawberry or use to make your own chocolate cups by spreading the chocolate inside a cup cake holder or use to make your own candy of raisins and nuts

let the chocolate set in the fridge for an hour or so and it is ready to use to decorate a cake or enjoy a treat.

ENJOY