Chocolate and Dried Fruit
quick easy candy making with chocolate and dried fruit
Ingredients
- 1 cup chocolate I prefer 60% cacao bittersweet chocolate (use your favorite chocolate)
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (any variety) sliced into bite sized pieces, use banana chips, dried pineapple, dried apricots, dried mango, dried apples, dried cranberries, or dehydrated fruit.
Instructions
- Use a baking sheet to place the melted chocolate so they dry and harden with a smooth bottom and you can easily move the candy.
- Prep all the dried fruit so it's ready to put into place as soon as you're chocolate is melted.
- Heat the chocolate in the microwave at 30 second increments until fully melted, stirring at each interval. Add a teaspoon of coconut oil to thin it if needed. Alternatively, you can use a double boiler, don't allow the boiling water to touch the bottom of the pot or it may scorch the chocolate and overheat it. Dark chocolate should be melted to about 115° milk or white chocolate to about 105° check post for more into.
- Drop dollops of melted chocolate onto the baking sheet.
- Top each dollop with dried fruit.
- Allow chocolate to cool at room temperarues.
- There are many options given in the post, how to turn this into bark, trays of toffee as well and other dried fruit options.