Valentine dipped chocolates

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 Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to show your love than by creating homemade chocolates? You may remember this post from ten years ago (wow! How long have we been blogging here?) where my mom showed you how to make Easter dipped chocolates and gave you our recipe for dipped chocolate filling. Well, now I'm going to show you how to make some tasty dipped chocolates using my mom's base recipe for the filling, but we are going to give them a Valentine Day design! (This is Lindsey by the way, and the humor of me doing something special for Valentine's day is funnier than you know.)

Here is the base recipe for the dipped chocolate filling. You can customize it with whatever flavor you prefer!

I am Young Women President in my ward, which means the young women in our church congregation between the ages of 12 and 18 are my responsibility. We plan activities together throughout the year from a weekly youth night to a summer camp. We recently held a fundraiser for our yearly summer camp and the girls chose to do a dessert silent auction. We decided to hold the auction the weekend before Valentine's Day, and so I decided I would make some dipped chocolates for my dessert for the auction! I wanted to make them look a little prettier than just little balls, so I used a silicone mold to shape the chocolates into cute shapes!

Look at these cute heart and rose shaped molds!

Or this entire set!

I decided to make two different fillings for these Valentine dipped chocolates, orange and thin mint. For the orange flavoring I followed the directions from my mom's post, which I included on the recipe card here. However, I had a container for Thin Mint crumbs in my cupcake cupboard so I just kept shaking out the thin mint crumbs, mixing them in, and doing a small taste test to see if you could taste the thin mint until it got to a taste I liked.
When it came to shaping the chocolates, there was a little trial and error for me. At first I thought it would be a good idea to shape the filling inside the mold and then do the chocolate bit. So here is what the shaped fillings looked like.

However, I learn that the easiest thing was to add a little of the melted chocolate to the bottom of the mold, then press in the filling and let them freeze. After letting them sit in the freezer for thirty minutes the dipped chocolates would pop right out of the mold and I would then dip the bottoms into the chocolate on the stove and placed them on a tray to put back into the freezer until the chocolate hardened.

I used two different dipping chocolate for these, Ghiradelli Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers, and Wilton's Milk Chocolate Candy Melts. (This Link is for the Light Cocoa Candy Melts, I couldn't find the milk Chocolate on Amazon.) I personally prefer the dark chocolate, the milk chocolate was too sweet for me, but you can use whatever chocolate you prefer!

Look at this cute spatula my mom made and gave me for Christmas! I used this spatula to help smooth out the chocolates as they melted on the double boiler.

These made about 4 dozen dipped chocolates. I bagged them in clear little baggies to display at the auction. The auction was a lot of fun and we raised a good amount of money for our summer camp! These chocolates are delicious and were a popular item that people bid on! I hope that you'll make some and enjoy!

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