I’m left with a crusty mess that I can’t mix anything into.
Wondered why smarties tasted like a weird $2 shop knock off all of a sudden. It's the compound chocolate 🤮. Still shows as chocolate on woolies website though.
Hey everyone, I hope you can commiserate with me on my particular 1st-world problem, and join in the faux outrage to distract from the shitshow of real life atm!
My partner came home from the weekly shops with these "ice cream bars" which I have put in quotations for good reason.
They tasted like ass and were such a weird texture that I had to pull the box out of the recycling bin and look at a little closer.
It's not even real chocolate, but compound chocolate, whatever that means. Well, it means that they've put in coconut and palm oil in it, along with vegetable emulsifiers etc. so that was gross.
Turns out that the vanilla ice cream was reduced fat ice cream, which really is an oxymoron. Proper ice cream needs full fat cream and I'm tired of these big brands adding air and vegetable oil to inflate the volume. It tastes yuck and I avoid buying it. So of course Woolies put that pertinent info in small print on the back of the box.
Alas, I just thought I would share my indignation at this abomination of an "ice cream bar" and suggest you avoid purchasing them! That is all.
I want to make a gingerbread house this year, and wanted to follow a recipe from the 'How to Cook That' YouTube channel/online blog.
The recipe says to use compound chocolate, which is a type of chocolate made without cocoa butter. The lack of cocoa butter in compound chocolate means you don't need to temper the chocolate for it to set hard.
Is compound chocolate available in the UK? 'How to cook that' is based in Australia, so I'm not sure if this type of chocolate is mostly used in warmer countries? I haven't been able to find any chocolate that doesn't contain cocoa butter, unless I want to buy it in bulk, costing £50+.
Do you have any suggestions or product recommendations? Thanks!