How to harden a chocolate made from Regular (unsalted) butter?
I am trying to make chocolate in following steps-
Take cocoa powder (unsweetened) and powdered sugar. Grind them. Add Regular (unsalted) melted butter, mix them for long. And pour them in moulds.
But the chocolate does not settle, even after keeping it in a refrigerator. Tempering will not help, as it works only for chocolate made with cocoa butter.
What steps I must do to get a chocolate that settles?
Thanks.
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The snap of chocolate comes from one specific crystallization of cocoa butter, out of six forms. Getting that specific form requires careful temperature control.
That form is particular to cocoa butter. You won't be able to make it other fats. Especially not whole butter, which is a complicated mixture of various kinds of fatty acids with proteins and water.
You might get a slightly harder compound if you start with clarified butter or ghee, but it's never going to have the distinctive snap of cocoa butter.
This cannot be done. Chocolate has the hardness of chocolate, because it is made out of cocoa butter. Dairy butter is not suitable for that. There are industrial processes which use hydrogenated plant fat and emulsifiers to make chocolate bars with a somewhat different texture than pure chocolate, but still hard - I doubt that you can do that without industrial grade equipment.
For all practical purposes, what you are trying to do is impossible.
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