{"id":92100,"date":"2025-02-13T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=92100"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:02:17","slug":"homemade-valentines-chocolates-hot-chocolate-stones-chocolate-truffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/homemade-valentines-chocolates-hot-chocolate-stones-chocolate-truffles\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Valentine&#8217;s Chocolates &#8211; Hot Chocolate Stones &#8211; Chocolate Truffles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pDJz8WeJ1v4?si=PPASALF-w1sFMSeD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Food Wishes<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Feb 2010<\/p>\n<p>Use this Valentine&#8217;s Day chocolate recipe to make a special gift. Find yourself a nice decorative box to put these best Valentine&#8217;s chocolates in. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to have the word &#8220;love&#8221; on the box. The flavor profile of these chocolates is perfect: dark chocolate with just a hint of warmth.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><br \/>\n1\/2 pound high-quality dark chocolate, chopped<br \/>\n1\/8 teaspoon ground dried chipotle pepper<br \/>\n1 pinch salt<br \/>\n1\/2 cup heavy whipping cream<br \/>\n3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, or as needed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Place chocolate into a bowl; add chipotle pepper and salt.<\/li>\n<li>Heat cream in a small saucepan over medium-low heat until it comes to a boil. Pour over chocolate and let stand for 3 minutes. Stir gently until chocolate mixture is completely smooth.<\/li>\n<li>Pour chocolate mixture out onto a sheet of plastic wrap on a work surface. Pick up one edge of the plastic and roll chocolate into a rough log shape. Continue to roll, wrapping chocolate in the plastic. Refrigerate until chilled and firm, 30 to 60 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Place cocoa powder in a small bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Unwrap chocolate and cut in half crosswise; cut each half into halves lengthwise. Rough-cut candy into 1\/2-inch squares.<\/li>\n<li>Place chocolate squares into cocoa powder and toss gently to coat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Wishes Published 13 Feb 2010 Use this Valentine&#8217;s Day chocolate recipe to make a special gift. Find yourself a nice decorative box to put these best Valentine&#8217;s chocolates in. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to have the word &#8220;love&#8221; on the box. The flavor profile of these chocolates is perfect: dark chocolate with just a hint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1538,1276,1388],"class_list":["post-92100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-chefjohn","tag-cooking","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nXu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92101,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92100\/revisions\/92101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}