Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon and today we're going to make
chocolate coated nuts. I bought a mixed bag of nuts 🌰🥜🔩and separated them all out
into their individual bowls and I want to know if you know what each of these
are ... so if we call this one number one two three four five six seven and eight ...
can you list in the comments for me the number and the name of each of these
nuts? So that's one two three four five six seven and eight.
What are they? I'm gonna use some of them but I am NOT going to use all of them
today. Let's start with these ones which to give you a clue are ... walnuts 😊Crack the
hard shell and this is what they look like inside they look a bit like a brain
to me 🧠 Okay so I've got a plastic container lid and I'm going to take each
of the walnut shells and put some hot glue on it and stick it to the top of
the inside of the container like that. The reason that I'm using whole ones is
that they're very hard to break without damaging the shell and all the shells
are slightly different sizes. Pour reusable food safe molding gel into the
bottom of the container then take that lid flip it over and place it on top so
that the walnuts sit half covered by the molding gel. Once the gel is set you
should just be able to pull off the lid from the container and because the lid
is smooth the hot glue should just come right off leaving the lid unharmed.
Take the mold out of the container and then remove the nuts and you can see
there the imprint of the shell and all those details are on the molding gel.
Fill each cavity with tempered milk chocolate ... if you don't know how to
temper chocolate just ask in the comments and one of my lovely
subscribers will link you to the chocolate secrets video that shows you
various methods of tempering chocolate at home. Once all the molds are full or
nearly full agitate it to smooth off the tops and get rid of any of those air
bubbles and then add a walnut 1/2 onto the top of each one and push it down gently.
And then we've just got to leave those to set. While they are sitting
I've always wanted to make chocolate coated nuts but to do that properly you
need a panning machine and I obviously don't have one of those but then I saw
this video where they put a stand mixer on a slope and added an attachment that
you can use for panning which sounds great and then I saw the price hmm 🤔
So I've decided to try and make my own instead ... so firstly I'm going to unscrew
another attachment that I have for my mixer so I've got that bit that goes
into the top of the mixer. I don't even know if this is gonna work but let's
give it a go. So I'm gonna take a hemisphere baking tin and to make it a
bit bigger or a bit longer I'm adding the sides of a loose based baking tin
around the top and just using gaffer tape to put that into place. Then using
hot glue I'm adding a plastic ring to the top of the hemisphere. Now this is
the side that goes into the mixer and that will turn it so the other side is
the one we want to attach to the bowl right in the centre. Now I don't know if
this is going to be strong enough but I'm using hot glue so that I can take it
off again later and reuse all these parts for their original purpose. Here we
go put the mixer onto a slope and add that into place and then shall we test
it out ... my main concern with this is that this join here won't be 💥strong enough
and indeed it's not. Oh dear so we're going to need another way of attaching
that and I think I'm gonna have to sacrifice my hemisphere mold here and
drill a hole right through it. Model version number two I now have a hole
through the hemisphere mold and the 'joiny' piece is hot glued into the
centre and success ... it is spinning and after a few minutes we have a light
coating and then you can add a little bit more chocolate at a time to make that
coating thicker but it looks like the hot glue is still not strong enough. I
really don't want to weld this together because I want the piece for my
other attachment for the mixer later. So time for model number three ... this time
I've reduced the amount of hot glue on the outside to a smaller amount and
glued a screwdriver attachment around the piece that goes through on the
inside. I also got rid of the slope because the mixer works with the head
tilted up so there's not really any need to put it on a slope it can just sit
flat with the head up. This seems to be the most stable model that I've made so
let's leave that tumbling and check on the walnuts. Push each of the walnuts pop
out of the mold and I think they look lovely ... a box of those would make a
beautiful gift for someone or just a bowl that a dinner party would be lovely
for dessert and once you've got the mould made it is easy to make more of
these. Then finally after two hours of panning just leaving them to go around
on each other to make them smoother we have milk and then I put a layer of dark
chocolate on the very outside and we have coated hazelnuts. They're not as
smooth or as shiny as I was hoping for but considering that this was a homemade
panning machine on the spur of the moment I actually think they're pretty
good and a life update for you we are back home from the hospital. James is
still on IV antibiotics and a whole bunch of other medications with an
amazing service we have in Australia here called Hospital in the home. So
basically he is still a hospital patient but they come to us instead of us being
in hospital, so he's out of dangerous waters now he's getting stronger and a
little bit less pain each day. So thank you all so much for your love over these
last few weeks 💕 I was getting really teary last week reading all the comments
and the Friday before as well when I was in the hospital reading them all
and thank you for all the virtual hugs you sent to your support just means a
lot so much to me to know that you guys care for us and for those of you who are
asking where you could send James a get-well card 💌we've got the PO box
listed in the description below I'll put that on there as well and if you missed
last week's video and you have no idea what's going on you can catch up on that
here see more of the chocolate truffle videos here and other cool stuff here.
Make it a great week and I'll see you on Friday 💝
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