White plus dark chocolate equals milk chocolate?

[PurplePonderer]

I’m in the mood to make cornflake cakes but got white chocolate delivered instead of milk. I think they’d be sickly with white chocolate. If I melted the white chocolate with a bar of dark chocolate would that make something like milk chocolate? Or would it likely be a waste of two bars of precious chocolate ?

I hate white chocolate, it's a no from me. WCh is made with a different part of the cacao bean, is white due to that nothing to do with whether the fat is white or dark etc.

If you like white chocolate then probably fine to mix. Add a little milk if you are melting them, wouldn't that turn dark chock to milk chok?

They behave differently when you melt them, I wouldn't mix them.

Hmmm. Thanks both. Might have to make two batches then, one with each type of chocolate and munch them alternately. Oh the hardship.

Isn't white chocolate mostly sugar not chocolate?

Melt and mix them separately but put a layer of each colour in each case (or whatever)?

Make them with cocoa, butter and syrup. Much nicer than with chocolate surprisingly

White chocolate cornflake cakes are delicious

Lots of options here, thanks! Sadly out of syrup, as that sounds tasty.

White chocolate is mostly made with the fact squished out of the beans and might not mix now nicely, melt at different times... you could add cocoa powder to it thought

Fat not fact

Do you have a recipe with quantities @nacknick ?

Cocoa beans + cocoa butter + milk + sugar = Milk Chocolate
Cocoa beans + cocoa butter + sugar = Dark Chocolate
Cocoa butter + milk + sugar = White Chocolate

So, yes.

Ooh I always have to ask my sister @IllegalFred! For some reason I can never remember. I'll get back to you...

I’d melt them separately, but use both to make sort of swirly cornflakes cakes.

Yes! Marbled cornflake cakes. Excellent idea. That’s going to be the plan I think

What a good idea. The swirly idea is good too. Funnily enough this thread got me thinking of mixing hair colours!

I usually do the ones with cocoa and syrup.

In the recipe I use it's 6tbsp cocoa, 4 tbsp golden syrup, 4 oz butter, 4oz icing sugar and 6oz cornflakes.

Melt butter, sift in icing sugar and cocoa, add golden syrup and heat til everything has dissolved. Then just mix in the cornflakes/crispies.

I made some with white chocolate and rice crispies, bloody lovely!

I made Rocky Road, aka Chocky Biscuit cake, last weekend with half and half dark and white chocolate. Declared to be the best ever by the family, but they always say that to ensure I keep making it.

Well I’d forgotten how temperamental white chocolate is to melt! Didn’t help it wasn’t cooking chocolate either, just bog standard Cadbury’s. I did it with syrup (found some with maple syrup flavour lurking in the cupboard) and butter. It tried to go grainy so I thought sod it and added half the dark chocolate and somehow that seemed to rescue it and they’ve come out really well. Happy days. Cheers mumsnet

Cocoa beans + cocoa butter + milk + sugar = Milk Chocolate
Cocoa beans + cocoa butter + sugar = Dark Chocolate
Cocoa butter + milk + sugar = White Chocolate
Not quite so simple.
There is cocoa solids, cocoa fat... the white chocolate is mostly fat.
I used to live in a cacao plantation and make chocolate from scratch 😃
I miss it 😭