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How to make your own chocolate batons

Make your own batons

Make your own batons

A good quality-chocolate baton makes all the difference to a pain au chocolate.  You could just buy them, but they are actually very easy to make. You can flavour them with cardamon or orange or ginger, or even chillies, by infusing the sugar water with your chosen flavouring and removing before you stir the sugar water into the chocolate.

  • 300g                        dark chocolate
  • 100g                         sugar
  • 100g                         water

Method

  • Break the chocolate into small pieces and set aside.
  • Dissolve the sugar in the water and boil.
  • Add the sugar mixture to the chocolate and leave to set, stirring from time to time.
  • Once the mixture has set to a piping consistency, pipe into strips about 5mm thick.
  • Place in the refrigerator until ready to use or freeze.

Making chocolate batonsfrom Vanessa Kimbell on Vimeo.

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All reasonable care is taken when writing about health aspects of bread, but the information it contains is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.

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