White Chocolate Woes: Part 1

This is part one of making Chocolate Covered Blueberries... Because I made some errors and I went ahead and redid the recipe, but that's on the other post. They were a lot of fun to make, even if there was a bunch of mishaps that occurred on my first attempted. Although the original recipe called for cherries, I'm not really a fan of them. "These are great to use as a garnish or as a tiny dessert all by itself" (Ojakangas 77).

Ingredients:

6 ounces bittersweet (not sweetened), semisweet, or white chocolate, chopped

1 tablespoon light corn syrup

4 dozen small blueberries

To start off,  if you need a substitute for corn syrup use 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water. just keep stirring the sugar in the hot water until it fully dissolves, this would help emulsify the chocolate.

Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. "Place chocolate and corn syrup in a medium bowl and set barely simmering water (do not allow bottoms of pan to touch water); stir until melted and smooth" (Ojakangas 77).

Remove chocolate from over the water.  Stick 2 blueberries on a toothpick and dip into the chocolate. Place the blueberry, chocolate side down, on the waxed paper. Repeat with remaining blueberries and chocolate. Chill until chocolate is firm, at least 15 minutes.

Properly melting the chocolate gave me the most problems, although I followed most of the recipe I ran into trouble by over heating and not stirring in the corn syrup enough. The chocolate consistency wasn't very good, as it was silky and more or less like play doh. Not only that I screwed up and put the blueberries in the chocolate mix without using toothpicks and I couldn't recover from that and instead put all of the blueberries inside of the mixture instead of dipping them.

 Yeah... Failure tasted pretty good, although the texture was that of a Tootsie Roll because the chocolate didn't set properly. Did you have any failures from your blogging experience? Although this was my first attempt I got back on my feet and redid this and it turned out great.

Resources: Ojakangas, Beatrice, and Roger LePage. Petite Sweets: Bite-size Desserts to Satisfy Every Sweet Tooth. Portland, Me.: Sellers, 2009. Print.