I was making chocolates for a friend who loves M&Ms (you're right in that I
personally don't like them)
The candies I am am working on now have 5 shells - cube of strawberry,
chocolate, strawberry candy, caramel fondant, chocolate and ends with a
thin
vanilla hard candy shell
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Ellyn M.
"Chembake" <roybasan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 2, 11:30 am, "Buddy's Girl" <monroefam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> the work I do in the food processor is a little like panning - and I
>> would
>> rather eat chocolate than food grade wax
>>
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>> Ellyn M."Chembake" <royba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Mar 27, 9:55 am, "Buddy's Girl" <monroefam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> This may sound weird...but I have had success using chocolate
centers
>> >> and
>> >> then coating with thin sugar syrup mixed with melted chocolate.
>>
>> >> I create the centers in a mold and then create slightly larger
>> >> versions
>> >> in a
>> >> pan of cornstarch.
>>
>> >> Make a syrup and then stir in 2-3 T chocolate.
>>
>> >> I Pour a little in to each cornstarch "mold" carefully place a
>> >> chocolate
>> >> center in and then spoon a little on top.
>>
>> >> After the candy hardens and I remove from the cornstarch I toss in a
>> >> food
>> >> processor with only the kneading blade and some melter cocoa butter
>> >> and
>> >> powdered food color
>>
>> >> I have been able to make candies as small as the large M&Ms this way
-
>> >> shell
>> >> is a little thicker than the original, but I did not wish to
purchase
>> >> anything that I could not purchase at a local shop.
>>
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>> >> Ellyn M."Nika" <tmhar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> > I've always wondered if a Belgian chocolate version of m&m's has
>> >> > ever
>> >> > or can be made. I looked in rec.food.chocolate's history, and the
>> >> > only
>> >> > reference to the making of the candy shell is that is contains an
>> >> > ingredient derived from the lac beetle...confectioners shellac.
I'd
>> >> > love to be able to construct my own little fancy m&m's, but I fear
>> >> > the
>> >> > candy coating process must be complicated. Anybody have any ideas
>> >> > how
>> >> > it is done?- Hide quoted text -
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>> > M&Ms type multicolored lenticular shaped sweets are coated through
>> > the panning process where the final coating contains some form of
>> > wax....- Hide quoted text -
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>
> so why did you want to make M&M like delicacies if you abhor edible
> wax?
> Besides the coating is just a few microns thin.....just to make it
> glossy and makes it more attractive....
>
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