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Top tip for avoiding senseless waste of chocolate that has 'bloomed'

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FestiveAtForty · 09/12/2006 14:17

You know when you open a box of chocs that has been stored in somewhere too warm and the fat has made the chocs go all white and lardy looking (and tasting)...

I was recently devastated when I realised that this had happened to a large box of Lindors I was about to start necking (I'm breastfeeding which officially qualifies as eating for two).

I remembered reading somewhere that there is nothing actually 'off' about the chocolate if this has happened, it is just that the fat has redistributed itself in an unappetising way.

So I separated the Lindors into the various colours (dark, white etc) and put the chocs of each type in a mug and microwaved them on medium for about a minute till the chocolate had melted. Then left it to re-set at room temp, hacked it out with a spoon and can happily confirm it was YUMMY.

Of course if you are more restrained or creative than I, you could pour the melted choc into moulds and make nice shapes, or shave it and put it into hot chocolate... but the important thing is that the poor bloomed chocolate is not undeservingly consigned to the dog or the bin. Just felt I had to share this with you all.

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PinkTinsel · 09/12/2006 14:19

at you hacking at lumps of chocolate with a spoon!

great idea though..... i always chuck it and it meakes me so cross to waste it!

RubberDuckWithCranberrySauce · 09/12/2006 16:47

I used to work for a chocolate company - staff shop was great because you used to get piles of bloomed chocolate very very cheaply - especially around Easter. Was heaven And as you say, absolutely nowt wrong with it... just looks a bit horrid.

corrina28 · 09/12/2006 16:49

i would just melt it n dip yummy things in it, i would be like your own choc fountain, but without all the clearing up

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