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Chocolate brazil nuts

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NoCarb

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Hello guys!

I am looking for chocolate brazil nuts without sugar, but also without maltitol. Or they can have sugar, but less than 10%, so it must be at least 80% dark chocolate.

Any help?

Thanks!
 
NoCarb said:
Hello guys!

I am looking for chocolate brazil nuts without sugar, but also without maltitol. Or they can have sugar, but less than 10%, so it must be at least 80% dark chocolate.

Any help?

Thanks!
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I cheat, I buy plain Brazils, and 85 or 90% dark chocolate, break it into pieces and have a bite of choc and a Brazil together. I suppose you could melt the choc and coat your own, but life's too short!
 
Buy the chocolate, melt it and dunk the brazil nuts in it 🙂
 
NoCarb said:
the problem is that you have have to do them one by one
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Why is that a problem? 🙂

But, I suppose that I can see it being one if you're like me and you coat the first nut, eat it and then coat the next, eat that etc. etc.

Andy 🙂
 
Hotel chocolat do chocolate covered Brazil's but they are 70% cocoa solids, I am a fan of both dark chocolate and nuts, so I make my own. You don't have to dip them individually just put them on a baking tray and drizzle the chocolate over once melted you do lose a fair bit of chocolate but it covers the Brazil's very well. I don't think you'll find 85% dark on a commercial product because the oil in the Brazil nuts impregnates the chocolate making it much softer, 85% is already very high in its own oil so it can be a gooey affair, still very nice I hasten to add just very gooey. I only make them at Christmas and keep them in the fridge until about an hour before they're needed. Paynes also make dark chocolate Brazil's but I don't know what % theirs is but i had one at Christmas and they tasted more like milk than dark to me so I'd guess 50-65% ish 🙂
 
I made some of my own with 81% Lidl chocolate and they didn't seem to go gooey. I put them in petit four cases so it wouldn't have mattered if they did. Coating them one by one didn't seem to be a problem.
 
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