Chocoholics have found in chocolates a major crutch.It’s been proven that when we eat sweets or oily foods, our body produces the hormone serotonin which directs the movements in our intestines. Our brain uses the spare serotonin to control our appetites, moods, and emotions. The resultant enhanced frame of mind and the augmented energies may then be the motive behind other people’s unwavering fixation on chocolates.

Subsequent research have demonstrated that “chocoholism” isn’t of necessity a negative thing. Your body’s just responding to the stimulus provided by the flavors, nutrients, and chemicals in chocolates.

Another good news is that you don’t need to make that secret trip to the store every so often for your chocolate “fix.” You can craft your own chocolate candy right in your kitchen, with ingredients readily available at home.

Ready the following cooking materials: double boiler, mixing bowl, candy molds/baking sheets, rubber spatula, and white/dark chocolates.

Heat the chocolate on medium heat, placing it in the double boiler and stirring constantly with the spatula. Transfer the molten liquid from the double boiler to the baking sheets/candy molds to be shaped and dried. You can try to dip fruits in the chocolate while it’s hot and liquid for a fruit-filled treat.The freezer is a wonderful place to set your chocolate’s shape, just make sure that you’ve eliminated air bubbles from your chocolate candy.

Note however that if you don’t temper the chocolate confectioneries that you’ve made, they may be prone to spotting and won’t be shiny. Tempering distributes chocolate crystals evenly, otherwise the cocoa butter will rise to the top, appearing as whitish-gray spots on the surface. The difficulty you’ll be encountering in tempering lies in the fact that your chocolate must be kept at definite temperatures all throughout the time you’re working.

If you don’t want to deal with the hassles of tempering, you can always acquire a chocolate tempering machine to mind temperatures for you. What’s helpful about automating the tempering of your chocolate candies is the fact that you can manufacture so excellent a quality of chocolates that you can even start selling them!