Looking for milk chocolate

[Sashie]

Im in need of something simular to milk chocolate. I want to be able to coat some frozen peanut butter balls in this chocolate without it being tons of carbs. Everything that I've tried so far has been really bitter like dark chocolate. Thanks in advance!

[scott123]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

Are you sensitive to maltitol? There are a few maltitol based milk chocolate candy bars on the market.

Once you cross maltitol based chocolate off the list, milk chocolate starts getting complicated. Milk chocolate isn't just adding dry milk to chocolate. With most brands of milk chocolate, it involves a higher cocoa butter content as well.

Ganache (cream + unsweetened chocolate + sweetener) can get pretty milky depending on how much cream you add to it. Butter helps to temper the darkness of the chocolate as well. Cocoa butter, if you can obtain it, is ideal, though. Ganache is only solid when chilled, though, so if you're serving these treats at room temp, you'll need to coat them with something else (crushed nuts/cocoa) or they'll get messy.

A huge problem with lc chocolate recipes is that splenda, on it's own, doesn't sweeten chocolate very well. The results are invariably bitter. For a half decent chocolate, you'll want to combine splenda with at least one other sweetener, preferably two.

Since dried milk is too carby for me, I add milk protein to my milk chocolate, specifically casein. This is how a lot of sf chocolate manufacturers do it.

[Desertthorn]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

Would cocoa work. You could make a powder of cocoa and splenda and then roll the balls in it.

[Sashie]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

I was hoping for a non bitter do it yourself, mix a bit of chocolae, maybe some cream and sugar type of deal. I haven't done much with candy, even before LC stuff. Mainly just brittle, rocca stuff like that. I just want something sweet to eat without having to pay 3 bucks for 10 pieces of candy at the store. My fav is pbutter balls dipped in chocolate for a sweet but added protein treat. I store them in the freezer and know exactly what you mean about the melting thing. I am just not a big fan of dark chocolate, and even with 2 sweetners (tried liquid alt, and sweet n low with splenda) and it tasted the same to me. Only thing that changed the flavor for me was adding choc pudding, but thats alot of carbs? Wasnt a big fan of the truffles, but pbutter fudge (pbutter with vanilla pudding) was yummy. Need a change though.
Thanks for responding!

[Desertthorn]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

Have you ever made Clouds. They are semi candy like, and you can flavor them to taste minty or chocolatie, or even fruitie. I have added blueberries to the recipe and other folks have cocoa, etc. Nuts would also be a fine addition.

8oz. package cream cheese
1/4 cup Splenda*
1 stick unsalted butter
1 tsp. Pure Vanilla or other flavored extracts

In bowl soften to room temperature the butter & the cream cheese. Add the vanilla & Splenda* mix with mixer till smooth and well blended. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. With a 1/2 tsp. measuring spoon place the dollops on the paper. Put the cookie sheet in the freezer and let them freeze. When frozen put in baggies. This is ok for induction and for anytime you have a sweet craving. Whole recipe 18 carbs.

[scott123]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

Sweet n low is, by a huge margin, the worst tasting sweetener you can buy. Do yourself a huge favor and combine the splenda with something else. Sweet one ace k is excellent and not that pricey. Erythritol is costly, but it adds some of the texture of sugar.

Regardless of the ratio, I have found cream, unsweetened chocolate and sweetener to be surprisingly dark tasting. I don't think a halfway decent lc DIY milk chocolate exists. At least not at this time.

Do you live anywhere near a Trader Joes? The have maltitol based milk chocolate that costs about 1.69 for a pretty large bar. Sometimes I purchase this, but I generally try to avoid maltitol. When I crave milk chocolate, I make my brownies. They're very mellow flavored and sweet.

[Sashie]

Re: Looking for milk chocolate

I'm not a fan of the Sweet N Low, but I was following a few recipes that were doing the 1/2 and 1/2 with splenda claiming it had better results. I didn't notice a change for the better.

Trader Joe's is about an hour away, I'll try to get the hubby to stop by next time we drive through there, thanks for the tip! Brownies sound good, mind posting the recipe? I did a search but couldn't find yours posted. Maybe I can mix is with a bit of pbutter instead of making the pbutter cups.

Desertthorn, Ill have to try those clouds. I keep reading about them but have never tried them myself. In all honesty I'm just now opening myself to sweets since I'm at goal. I would like to try a variety of things to convince the non low carbers around me that its not all so bad and well worth it.