I had a fancy for dark chocolate covered corncakes last night. Went to Tesco and they only had chocolate rice cakes (meh). So I bought some plain corn cakes and some dark chocolate for some DIY. Melted the choc in the microwave on a flat plate, dipped the corncakes face down to coat them. Left them on a plate on the kitchen counter to dry for a few hours while I watched TV. The were 90% dry when I finally headed to bed (2am) so I popped the uncovered plate of corncakes in the fridge overnight.
Woke up this morning and got a bit of a shock to see these seriously creepy patterns on every single cake.
I'm utterly baffled and quite creeped out. I haven't seen any heavy, chocolaty-footed insects in the house (second floor flat in the middle of a city). I had a go at rationalising it in terms of differential rates of contraction of chocolate and corn causing cracking, but they don't snap along those lines if I break them. I ate a few and they taste fine (yummy actually). I've shown the pictures to everyone I can and no one has any idea what would have left precise double rows of dots in a meandering pattern on the surface of the chocolate, but the theories have left me wishing I hadn't eaten any :S
Can wise mums net shed any light on this mystery?
(P.S. Sorry if I'm being overly dramatic about this but I had a SERIOUS maggot bin incident a few days ago and I'm on my home on my own at the moment so feeling a bit squeamish at the thought of dealing with whatever might be behind this.)