Making your very own chocolates and choosing how they look & taste, sounds like every child’s dream. A dream that is left unfulfilled by everyone bar those who become chocolatier! However Choc Chick have created the most amazing gluten free, dairy free Chocolate making kit which I guarantee you will love. It’s fun, super tasty, quick & also makes the perfect gift!
So Mark is a massive chocolate fan, but his lactose intolerance means it isn’t always easy for him to enjoy a wide selection of different chocolates. However, a couple of months ago I saw this amazing Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit in the Holland & Barrett More Store in Chester. I had to grab one! However, as you might have seen from a video on my YouTube Channel… I ended up giving my Choc Chick Chocolate Making Kit away to a friend as a gift! I’m not sure how impressed Mark was by this at the time… but luckily we have a new Choc Chick Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit now… & so far we both have given it a huge thumbs up!
The idea of making chocolate is pretty exciting to me. It’s like being in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory or something. If I had the chance to make chocolate when I was a kid I would have gone crazy! Now 24, I was still pretty darn excited to give this Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit a try. Especially with it being both gluten free & dairy free… perfect combo for Mark & I.
So, the Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit comes with Organic Raw Cacao Butter, Organic Raw Cacao Powder, Sweet Freedom (100% Natural Sweetener made from 100% fruit), a recipe booklet & some mini baking cases. This is literally all you need to make chocolate… & I didn’t even use my baking cases!
The chocolate making kit is dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free, soya free & egg free. It is incredibly versatile too. From reading the mini recipe book & then looking on their website, I got so many good ideas of how I could make little chocolates for us both to enjoy anytime that we wanted them.
Not one for going just for a basic plain chocolate… I decided to make something a little different. I added two extra ingredients to my dairy free chocolates… banana and peanut butter! Before starting the chocolate making process I cut up a couple of bananas. I then sliced each piece into two & put all the pieces of parchment paper in the freezer for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes I sandwiched two pieces together with a dollop of peanut butter & put them in the freezer again to firm up (15 minutes is perfect!)
Whilst the banana & peanut butter chilled in the freezer I started the chocolate making process. It is so simple! I melted the cacao butter in a bowl over a pan of water on a low heat. I then mixed in my cacao powder. & Finally I added my Sweet Freedom. If you wanted to you could just pour the mixture into your little cases like this and freeze them for simple chocolates, BUT I had other ideas for my Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit!
I left the chocolate mixture to cool slightly (only 10 minutes) so it would thicken, then I dipped each of my banana/peanut butter pieces onto the chocolate, coating them completely! I put them back in the freezer on the parchment paper to chill for 10 minutes… & like magic… my homemade banana/peanut butter chocolates were ready! They went down a treat!!
I would highly recommend grabbing a Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit from Choc Chick for so so many reasons:
1) It is great to make your own chocolates as you know exactly what is in them… no nasties.
2) These chocolates are actually GF in more than just Gluten Free, they are Guilt Free too!
3) They are Dairy Free, Soya Free, Egg Free, Refined Sugar Free & Raw too!
4) The chocolate tastes amazing!
5) The recipe booklet shows how you can make lots of different things with the kit, beyond just chocolates.
6) Perfect fun for big kids and little kids (they make a childrens chocolate making kit too!)
7) Great gift for you or a friend!
Where can you buy a Choc Chick Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit?
You can buy directly from Choc Chick online, in some John Lewis, in Whole Foods, Planet Organic, Harvey Nichols & a whole host of independent places. Click here for a list of stockists.
Have you ever tried making your own chocolate? How did it go? Have you tried a Choc Chick Dairy Free Chocolate Making Kit before? How did you get on? Would love to know your thoughts on chocolate making & also how you find it if you are dairy free etc… is finding tasty chocolates you can eat a problem?
Let me know by leaving a comment below. Or on Facebook/Twitter!
Thanks for reading,
Becky xxx
