Why wont my chocolate melt??

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Decided to make rice crispie cakes with the dc. Usually, i break the chocolate up, add a bit of golden syrup and butter, and melt together. Either in the microwave or in a bowl over a pan.

Did it in the microwave, bit at a time. It slightly softened then turned into a stiff paste type consistency. Didnt melt.

Tried again over the hob, bit better but then did the same. I managed to mix some rice crispies in but they arent coated. Whats going on??

Large bar of galaxy wasted!

Following with interest as the same happened to me.

Pic of the microwaved effort, and the rice crispies using pan method.

Im spectacularly pissed off at it!

Did you try double boiler method? A bowl inserted into a pan of water? I think the quality of the chocolate is often the issue. My daughter melts it in the microwave I always use a double boiler method as don't want to over heat it.

Did it get even a tiny bit wet? I do it over the kettle normally and if a little bit of steam gets into the bowl that happens 🥣

when i used to make them i used cocoa powder

dh uses cheap chocolate
you could try cooking chocolate also

I always melt mine with 150g of butter in the microwave for a minutes, looks like it is burnt

If I want to melt chocolate I buy chocolste that is specifically for this purpose. I tried melting spme Cadburys for the same a few years ago and it was horrible.

Galaxy is not really chocolate, and like gremlins, if it touches water you're toast.

Use something with less palm oil and more cocoa solids.

It looks like it’s ‘seized’. Either a bit of water has got in it, or it’s overheated. You can sometimes rescue it by stirring in a bit of boiling water.

Perhaps it’s not you, but they have changed the formula again? They did it a couple of years ago and had to change it back. But costs change.

Look on the ingredients list, cocoa butter should be 1st or 2nd. If not, it’s manufactured differently.

I did use the double boiler method for the second attempt.

No water got in it

Its definitely not burnt.

I got galaxy as they were for the kids so not fancy!

I did wonder if I had over done it in the microwave but honestly, i was doing maybe 20 second blasts.

Def didnt overdo it in the pan. It must be the galaxy. What a waste!

It seized up. There was some moisture in the bowl, like if you’d washed it but not fully dried it.

No moisture, honestly. And 2 different bowls, out of the cupboard.

It’s the galaxy chocolate. I’ve made the same mistake . I used the same method with some cheaper Tesco cooking chocolate after the galaxy was ruined and it worked fine .

We made chocolate crispie cakes a few weeks bzck and it was exactly like this. Used the bowl over the pan of water method and the chocolate sort of separated, tried to mix the rice crispies in but it really wasn’t nice at all.

Mocklate. Goodness knows what it is now. Chocolate always used to melt to a liquid.

I think that the syrup can get too hot for the chocolate in the microwave, and make it seize. Galaxy is pretty temperamental.
The best chocolate I have found for baking is Lidl own brand. It used to be 37p for a 100g bar, now it’s about a pound

I would normally say you need cooking chocolate, but I had a similar thing happen to me with Waitrose chocolate chips recently. M&S chocolate chips melted perfectly using exactly the same method. Clearly it makes a difference when you alter almost all of the ingredients in something!

I drink mochas at work. They just changed the drinking choc to galaxy as the price of cocoa has gone up and galaxy is cheaper as is only choc flavoured rather than the prev brand that had cocoa in. Needless to say the mocha’s are now disgusting with a slight caramel tinge to them so I would say try again with cheap cooking/supermarket own choc.

I've never seized chocolate myself luckily, but I have learned recently that it can be saved
www.biggerbolderbaking.com/how-to-fix-seized-chocolate/

It's the degraded quality of the chocolate. That's few cocoa solids, bugger all milk solids and shit tonne of palm oil. It no longer behaves like real chocolate.

Because it’s not chocolate. It’s chocolate flavoured shite.

Get real chocolate, something with 60%+ cocoa solids.

I think you have to melt the chocolate on its own first.