topic Re: Melting chocolate chips in Recipes

Melting chocolate chips

wonderfulworld — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:26:03 GMT

It used to be easy to put mini chocolate chips on warm

cookie dough and they would melt and I could spread them

after a few extra minutes in oven.
Now a gloppy mess. What happened? Any advice?

I use them on top of toffee square bars.
Another chocolate to try?

Thanks all!

Re: Melting chocolate chips

4kitties — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:39:28 GMT

Maybe add a bit of cream to them and make a ganache?

Re: Melting chocolate chips

santorini — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:41:58 GMT

What kind do you use now? I like those Ghirardelli melting chips.

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Dragonflyveb — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:45:07 GMT

I find that Nestles chips don't melt as nicely as they used to, especially the butterscotch chips.

I now use either Ghiradhelli or Guittard chips--much better.

dragonfly

Re: Melting chocolate chips

Kachina624 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:48:12 GMT

There are chips on the market that are not real chocolate and don't melt like chocolate. A picture of the package would have been helpful.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

Mom2Dogs — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:51:24 GMT

@wonderfulworld I am very good about notifying the company when I have an issue...you should be able to find an email address on their website or contact them via facebook.

I have a facebook account...I use it only to sell on Marketplace and to contact vendors that I need to communicate with....I have found that facebook gets a reply much quicker - I use Messanger to ask the question.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

wonderfulworld — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:57:43 GMT

@santorini wrote:
What kind do you use now? I like those Ghirardelli melting chips.

Nestle... they have changed something.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

deepwaterdotter — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:15:49 GMT

Ghirardelli makes my favorite chocolate.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

GloriBee — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:43:49 GMT

@wonderfulworld wrote:
It used to be easy to put mini chocolate chips on warm
cookie dough and they would melt and I could spread them
after a few extra minutes in oven.
Now a gloppy mess. What happened? Any advice?
I use them on top of toffee square bars.
Another chocolate to try?
Thanks all!

I love those toffee squares! I haven't made them in a few years, but I have been seeing them on Pinterest, which has me wanting to make them.

It's been a while, but I remember when I made them that I just put the chocolote chips on the toffee squares as soon as they came out of the oven. I let them sit for a few minutes and could easily spread the chocolate.

Here is what I think happened: you can sometimes take chocolate too far. Have you ever microwaved chocolate a little too long and it seizes up? I have (that's why they tell us to do 30 second intervals)! Basically the chocolate gets cooked.

Gloria

Re: Melting chocolate chips

GloriBee — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:41:36 GMT

@Dragonflyveb wrote:
I find that Nestles chips don't melt as nicely as they used to, especially the butterscotch chips.
I now use either Ghiradhelli or Guittard chips--much better.
dragonfly

Agreed! I only use Ghirardelli chocolate chips. They cost a bit more, but the chocolate flavor is superior.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

msgb — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 02:29:08 GMT

I just made this afternoon from one of Ree Drummond cookbooks--an item called Spreads. It was basically a cookie base and then you put about 8 oz of chips on top and them into the oven for a minute or so on top of the hot cookie bar base and then I took and off set spatula and spread the chips. It worked well for me and there was nothing extra added to the chips. In fact my husband loved it.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

Nightowlz — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:25:07 GMT

I noticed that several years ago especially with the butterscotch chips. They are harder to melt. Hope it's not even worse now.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

wonderfulworld — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:57:31 GMT

@msgb wrote:
I just made this afternoon from one of Ree Drummond cookbooks--an item called Spreads. It was basically a cookie base and then you put about 8 oz of chips on top and them into the oven for a minute or so on top of the hot cookie bar base and then I took and off set spatula and spread the chips. It worked well for me and there was nothing extra added to the chips. In fact my husband loved it.

Could I ask you what chips you used?

Thank you for your reply.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

Twins Mom — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:37:01 GMT

Sort of related, I have not recently tried melting chips in microwave. Previous attempts not good results.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

ECBG — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:42:03 GMT

@wonderfulworld

Your issue sounds like a coco fat issue if they're not smoothly melting. Try a baking chocolate.

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ECBG — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:45:37 GMT

@Kachina624

Do you remember this in food science; the highter butter fat the smoother chocolate melted.

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ValuSkr — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 21:56:19 GMT

I don't do much baking but thought baking chocolate was melted in a double boiler.

Re: Melting chocolate chips

wonderfulworld — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:35:42 GMT

Thank you all for your replies. I ended up getting Ghiradelli (sp?) chocolate wafers that are suppose to melt well. Fingers crossed.