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Try heating it gently again and then adding small quantities of hot milk, while mixing from the center and out, until it emulsifies

Wow! These look amazing! The passion fruit one is my favourite, too bad I can't understand a word in your website

The white foam happened to me a few times as well, I think I incorporated too much air when whisking at the beginning. I switched to using a spatula instead (which involved an interesting experiment of me finding out the hard way which of my spatulas was made out of silicone, and which out of plastic ) and one thing I did notice is that when I heated it enough and the mixture thickened, the white foam did get incorporated eventually

How hot was the white chocolate? It might have taken the dark chocolate out of temper...

The citron shaped ones are adorable. One of the flavours I made was Pierre Herme's lemon cream- the recipe is running over the internet, with some white chocolate for stabilization, in a dark chocolate shell. His lemon cream is amazing, I can eat it endlessly

Well, it sounds like I have no choice

Having purchased quite a few books by now, I would heartily endorse the first Greweling book. It's the only book I've got which covers so MANY topics so thoroughly. If you're not going to be making products for sale, you'll have to scale down the formulas, but it's a wonderful book. I must confess, I have an addiction- I love buying cookbooks, pastry books, chocolate books. I've bought most of the books that have chocolate in their title, and I'm trying (pretty unsuccessfully in the meantime ) to cut back. I have his first book, and absolutely love it, and though my first instinct was to buy anything with his name on it, I was wondering if it has any added value over the first one or if it just sort of simplifies the first one...

They look gorgeous!

Do you think there is any added value to buying this book after buying the original Chocolates and Confections?

Looks yummy!

I use glenfidich with milk chocolate- I think it is the chocolate that compliments it the best. I don't even like whiskey, but I do like this ganache. I use molded shells with dark chocolate: 80g cream 250g milk chocolate 30g whiskey 30g butter

That baby freaked me out! Very interesting, I wish I could have a taste of all of those chocolates!

Hi Ilana, thanks! And thanks for the recommendation! I had no idea caramel was so hydroscopic, I guess I'll give up on this idea for now...

Thank You! The area I'm in isn't humid at all right now, is it supposed to happen so fast (a few hours)? If I add glucose to the caramel can it impact this in any way? Or butter? Is there anything else I can add to prevent this? How about making butter crunch and then breaking it- Will the same thing happen? I've caramelized nuts the same way- stirred sugar with nuts until the sugar liquefies, added some butter and poured out on a sheet till it hardens. In this case nothing happened to the coating. Is the difference the temperature the sugar was cooked to? Or the presence of the nuts? Or just plain voodoo? Sorry for all the questions, it's just driving me nuts- my whole batch of chocolates currently has orange smudges on top- not very attractive... What I'm trying to do is create a creme brulee chocolate- make creme anglaise (based mostly on butter, not cream), add to white chocolate, add caramel pieces, dip in dark chocolate and decorate with caramel pieces. Is there any candy I can make that will stay crunchy while exposed to air?

This is my first post in this forum (Thanks Ilana for recommending it!), over the past few moths I've been reading all 132(!) pages (mostly chocolate & confections related) and I've learned a lot! I've been making chocolates for about 2 years, I've bought every book that came my way, and experiment with new stuff every weekend. The first question I'd like to ask is: This weekend I tried making caramel for decorating some chocolates- my intention was to make the caramel, spread it out thinly on parchment paper, then break it up into crumbs, put some in my filling, and sprinkle some on each dipped chocolate. I tried 2 ways- first I caramelized 75 grams of sugar with 25 grams of butter, then I caramelized just 100 grams of sugar. In both cases, after the caramel hardened (which took a few minutes), it started what looked like sweating, until it turned to be completely liquid within a few hours. Is this what normally happens or am I missing something? Is there any way to make these hard pieces of caramel and keep them that way?