Hershey’s Tropical Chocolate Bar, Part Deux, The Taste Test!©

 

 

 

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Now that we have brought our Frankenstein Tropical Chocolate  Bar recipe back to life, it is time to mix it up, see how it tastes and if it can survive for one hour in a 120^o F (49^o C) oven without getting soft and gooey! 

 

To make the bars for the taste test, I made a batch of 6 one ounce (28 gram) bars using the 1957 modified, D-Ration Bar recipe, multiplied by six, as shown in “Hershey’s Tropical Chocolate Bar, Part Deux, It’s Alive, Bwahahaa!©”, HERE.

 

The Mixing!

 

Okay, so my first attempt was a complete failure, it did make a great tasting hot chocolate powder, but it had the texture of mummy dust!  After a quick review of my recipe and some further research the mistake was obvious.

 

 

Curses!  Cocoa butter, I missed an ingredient, no wonder my monster was a pile of dust and not a creation that could be easily molded.  Either the list of ingredients from Hershey’s Community Archives changed between 1957 and the 1970s, or, more likely, it was a red herring put into the list by Hershey’s to keep people from recreating the recipe!

 

 

·       8 squares (60 grams) of Bakers Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

·       8-½  tablespoons (66 grams) of powdered sugar

·       3 tablespoons, plus 2 teaspoons (30 grams) of nonfat dry milk powder

·       1 tablespoon (12 grams) of cocoa butter.  NOTE -- scant the tablespoon by approximately ½ teaspoon, since 1 tablespoon of cocoa butter weighs 13.6 grams.

·       a smidgen, no more than ¹/₃₂ teaspoon (less than ½ gram) of ethyl vanilla

To melt the Bakers Unsweetened Baking Chocolate, use either a microwave or a double-boiler on a stove.

Microwave the chocolate in 30-second intervals, stirring between each, until the chocolate is mostly melted and only a few tiny pieces remain, about 1 1/2 minutes in total.

Mix in the remaining ingredients and press into a mold.  If the mix appears to be too liquid, add another ½ teaspoon of nonfat dry milk powder.

Let cool, remove from the mold and enjoy.

 

However, due to an utter lack of 100% food grade cocoa butter in my local area, the conclusion of your regularly scheduled article, “Hershey’s Tropical Chocolate Bar, Part Deux, The Taste Test!©” had been delayed.  It will return as soon as the cocoa butter arrives.

 

 

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