15 minute Homemade Spiced Chocolate with saffron and nuts. Quick, delicate and taste is smooth, silky dark chocolate flavor coupled with a pungent spice mix that is sure to impress your friends this Diwali or any celebration! It’s so easy to make chocolate at home with just a few ingredients. Try it and see for yourself!
“Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump
In the scheme of things, yes, life is like a box of chocolates. It is that simple. It appears mysterious, that box, on the outside. Who knows what kinds of chocolates are inside? Then you open it and see the forms and shapes of the various chocolates, but you don’t know how it tastes. Take a bite and find out! The mystery unravels itself in time, as you are living.
That’s life, taking a bite of that unknown piece of chocolate, but more than than simply taking a bite out of the chocolate and seeing how it tastes, but appreciating that taste. Not judging it for not being the taste you expected, or disappointed that it wasn’t as tasty as it looked. Nor, should it be the case, being sad it only has 5 pieces instead of 10, or that the box isn’t as big as you’d hoped. Enjoy the piece of chocolate, every piece, and don’t leave a single piece behind.
Around festivals I like to give homemade edible gifts, feels personal and tasty. I make these homemade spiced chocolates every year for the box. I mix up the spice blends, sometimes add dried fruits, but this time I kept it all in one small bite, and boy oh boy, it was so good.
These tiny saffron spiced chocolates pack a punch of flavor that will bring you back to life. They are so chocolatey that they taste almost like have Indian mithai especially with the saffron, cardamom and dried ginger powder. Most of all, it’s so simple to make.
WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE HOMEMADE SPICED CHOCOLATE AND NUTS
Making these Saffron spiced chocolate is very simple:melt, mix, tap and freeze.
- Milk chocolate – I like to use both a mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate. If you prefer sugar free you can use Lily’s chocolate chips
- Nuts – Use a mix of cashews, almond, pistachios. Chopped coarsely
- Saffron
- Spices – I used cardamom, you can use cinnamon, star anise, fennel or any spice you like. Powder it and use it.
- Dried ginger powder – I love this for chocolate.
- Sea salt
Spiced CHOCOLATE with Nuts
Use chocolate chips particularly for baking.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time or double boiler until it melts. Mix the nuts and spices immediately and pour it into the moulds and tap it well for air bubble to release. It will not go away fully because we’ve add chopped nuts.
Just as the liquid mixture transforms to a solid as it chills, so too do the drab, washed out spice flavors transform into an amalgam of flavor that evolves from sweet to pleasantly bitter and finishes with a just-bold-enough smoky spiciness from the cardamom.
IT IS DIVINE.
OTHER DIWALI TREATS:
Pori Urundai/Puffed Rice and Nuts Ladoo
- 1 cup Melting milk chocolate - mix of white, milk and dark
- ½ cup mixed nuts finely crushed(toasted-pistachios, cashews, almonds)
- ½ tsp dried ginger powder
- ¼ tsp fine cardamom powder
- 14 tsp saffron, crushed
- pinch salt
- Melt the chocolate in 30 second intervals or use a double boiler.
- Once melted, add the nuts, crushed saffron powder, cardamom and ginger powder. Mix well.
- Take a baking tray, keep the molds on top of that.
- Pour using a tablespoon in silicon molds. Tap on the countertop well and freeze or refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
- Take it out gently and store using parchment papers.
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