When I have failures...
They seem to happen in twos or threes.
Thankfully by some miracle,
I seem to be able to save the project at hand!
Remember the 'almost failure' with the French Look DIY pot?
http://miabellapassion.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/mod-podge-creation-reveal.html
They seem to happen in twos or threes.
Thankfully by some miracle,
I seem to be able to save the project at hand!
Remember the 'almost failure' with the French Look DIY pot?
http://miabellapassion.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/mod-podge-creation-reveal.html
Well folks, here is an 'almost' EPIC FAIL
I thought I would share it with you.
I added the word EPIC as I was pretty sure
whilst making these Bounty Bars, they were definitely not save-able!
I thought I would share it with you.
I added the word EPIC as I was pretty sure
whilst making these Bounty Bars, they were definitely not save-able!
I found a delicious recipe for homemade bounty bars
with SIMPLE picture instructions at 'Not Enough Cinnamon',
with SIMPLE picture instructions at 'Not Enough Cinnamon',
Homemade bounty bars are
sometimes known as mounds...
sometimes known as mounds...
and I thought "Oh YUM, let the confectionery-making begin!".
It all started off so well...
I gathered my ingredients...
condensed milk, coconut, melting chocolate.
And into my bowl went...
one cup of condensed milk and three cups of coconut.
It was mixed together as instructed.
So far so good!
But then mistake number one occurred,
I added a bit more coconut as I thought the mixture was too wet!
Mental note to self for the future...
'Do not overthink things!'
Then I 'squeezed' the coconut mixture - using clean, wet hands into mounds...
Which of course was harder to do,
because my mixture was now dryer than it should have been.
Second note to self...
'Do not adjust quantities - stick to recipe!'
The wee mounds were popped onto a tray lined with baking paper
and into the freezer for 20 minutes they went...
Near the end of chilling time, I melted the milk chocolate...
and this is where things went
horribly,
horribly
wrong...
The first mound was dipped, and the coldness of it made the chocolate set FAST!
It looked OK, quite smooth, but a little thick,
so thinking the chocolate needed to be thinner...
Mistake number two occurred...
I added a little bit of cream to it.
BIG MISTAKE!
IT WENT THICKER!!!
Needless to say, I was grateful a chocolate cake was in the oven,
and my chocolate concoction was now the ganache to ice it with!
Then melted dipping chocolate attempt number two began...
Dark chocolate this time...
Nicely melted,
but I still struggled to dip my mounds nicely...
they did not look smoothly coated...
In fact, mine most certainly resembled hedgehogs!
And worst still,
one got completely stuck to the fork,
But that was a terrific excuse to EAT it!
But that was a terrific excuse to EAT it!
It's clear I need a few lessons on how to dip confectionery into melted chocolate.
(I think I did not have my melted chocolate hot enough!)
But the good thing is,
they may not look like the perfect chocolate mounds
created by 'not enough cinnamon' on their Blog,
BUT THEY DO TASTE DELICIOUS.
My homemade coconut bounty bar mounds have a new name:
'Coconut hedgehogs'!
