Birthday Chocolates For Dad

Today is my Dads Birthday, turning 21 of course! And yesterday I made some chocolates for him as part of his gift (I thought the novelty boxer shorts probably weren't quite enough, lol). Anyway I thought I would share my very simple treats with you!

So all I did was melt some 72% dark chocolate and poured it into deep round chocolate moulds I have till 1/2 deep then tapped the moulds onto the bench to get the airbubbles out. I then put 1 toasted hazelnut (toasted in a medium oven for about 20mins till golden brown) into each mould and poured in more chocolate to fill each mould, again tapping to remove airbubbles. Placed in the fridge to completely cool and set. Took them out of the moulds placed them in a circle of cellophane wrapped and tied with a ribbon, BEAUTIFUL! Very simple, very tasty. You do need to use good quality chocolate for this.

I also used some of the melted chocolate to paint in an egg mould, cooled, placed a small blob of lemon curd in the mould, filled with more melted chocolate, cooled, remove half the "eggs" from the mould and use some more melted choc to "glue" one of the removed "eggs" to one of the "eggs" in the mould, cool again, remove from mould and there you have lemon filled dark chocolate easter eggs! Delicious!

I loved this taste so much that I have started (this morning) dipping chunks of dark chocolate into the lemon curd jar! Terrible, terrible, terrible, but oh so good!lol!