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Liquor Filled Chocolates Recipe | How to Make Liquor Chocolate at Home

Liquor filled chocolates or peppermint chocolates are such a delicious treat. Follow this recipe to make liquor filled chocolates at home for valentines day.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 20 servings
Calories: 174kcal
Author: Aarthi

Ingredients

  • 250 grams Dark Chocolate Bar (use good quality chocolate bar)

FOR MINT FILLING:

  • ¼ cup Unsalted Butter
  • 1 cup Confectioners Sugar (Icing Sugar)
  • tsp Peppermint Extract
  • few drops Green Food colour

FOR LIQUOR CHOCOLATES:

  • ¼ cup Unsalted Butter
  • cup Confectioners Sugar (Icing sugar)
  • 2 tbsp Rum or Liquor of your choice
  • Rum extract (optional)

Instructions

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.

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Notes

  • 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.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servings | Calories: 174kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 91mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 147IU | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg
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