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Peanut Clusters

Prep Time:

15 Minutes

Cook Time:

Varies

Serves:

10

Level:

Beginner

Ingredients

  • Baking Chips – a combination of semi-sweet or dark chocolate and butterscotch chips creates the perfect rich flavor.

  • Peanuts – unsalted, roasted peanuts are my favorite.

Preparation

Melt chocolate – temper – stir in peanuts, cashews, whatever nuts you like. Drop onto wax paper. Sooooo easy!


WORKING WITH CHOCOLATE

  1. Always start with good chocolate; a good chocolate will have a “smooth melt” – no noticeable grain when melted on the tongue. Never add anything to the chocolate (paraffin, oil, etc.).

  2. Break chocolate into small pieces, or buy small chocolate pieces. Keep away from moisture (i.e.

  3. Check every few minutes to make

  4. If it’s

  5. May want to turn the oven

  6. Be sure to stir chocolate fairly often as it

  7. Chocolate can also be melted in a microwave, but milk chocolate can scorch rather easily.

  8. Melt

  9. You can put a bowl of chocolate in an oven with a pilot light; it’ll melt overnight (or

  10. “Tempering” is the process of mixing and cooling chocolate to get it ready for dipping/coating

  11. Stir in bowl, or pour into a cold electric frying pan or marble slab and make “S” motions

  12. Continue mixing and cooling until chocolate feels cool to the touch.

  13. Dip or

  14. When working with chocolate, your room temperature should be no higher than

  15. Chocolate can be remelted many times as long as there is no moisture present and it hasn’t


How to Store and Freeze

Once the peanut clusters are completely set, they can be stored either at room temperature or in the fridge up to 2 weeks. I prefer to keep them in the fridge so the chocolate doesn’t melt. To store them, line them in an airtight container with pieces of parchment or wax paper between each layer.


To freeze them, let them harden completely, then transfer them to an airtight container with pieces of parchment or wax paper between each layer if you’re stacking them. They will last in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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