What A Waste!

[Ann]

Anyone tried to melt a bar of Galaxy milk chocolate to use for topping a cake?

First I tried to melt it just for a very short time in the microwave, only half seemed to have melted so I took it out and stirred it to melt the rest and couldn't believe my eyes - it went all peculiar, a gritty texture, not smooth at all! Assuming I had overcooked it, I went back to the old method of melting it in a basin over hot water and blow me - it happened again! Luckily I had some rice krispies so can use it for children's cakes (but even they haven't set properly!)

I usually use Cadburys for coating chocolate logs at Christmas so I know I'm not doing anything wrong - all I can think is that Galaxy cannot be used in this melted way. Back to Cadburys from now on!!!.

I know you can use chocolate especially formulated for cooking but we don't like the taste.

[wolf63]

I have been known to have problems heating a tin of soup - cooking is not my thing.

But Galaxy is much creamier than Cadburys so I think that the fat contents might differ a bit.

What a total waste of a bar of heavenly chocolate. :-(

[albaqwerty]

isn't Galaxy supposed to melt in the mouth and not in your hand?

(sorry, wrong brand)

I think because it's a different colour and texture to other eating choccies, it won't melt the same way.

[excelsior-1]

mmmmmmm, chocolate

[diddlydo]

Galaxy isn't proper chocolate - it doesn't have a high enough cocoa butter content.

[pastafreak]

I agree with diddly...galaxy is just called chocolate...but it isn't. You'd be better off with a better quality chocolate like lindt or G&Bs.

[emmie]

shouldn't you melt it in a bowl, placed over a saucepan, over a low heat,

[emmie]

ah i see you did that, perhaps the first method broke down the constituency separated the ingredients.

[ubasses]

throw a shot of brandy into it if it starts to go grainy, amazing what effect it has on it.

[emmie]

i would also go along with what others have said, its the chocolate, it's better to use a good one, dark chocolate, and follow the tried and tested method you use normally

[Old_Geezer]

And if the brandy doesn't affect it you won't care later when you try it anyway :-) I don't eat that much chocolate but if Galaxy isn't chocolate they create a darned good simile.

[Ann]

//ah i see you did that, perhaps the first method broke down the constituency separated the ingredients//

Emmie, I tried a second bar and a half (used and wasted 3 bars in total!!!!) by the basin over hot water method. I didn't try to reconstitute the first after the disaster in the microwave . Actually I finally did manage to spread it over the cake in a fashion, very rough but I forked a pattern on it, added some magic stars decoration and although not quite set it doesn't look too bad, maybe people will think it's sort of chocolate butter cream LOL ;)

[Ann]

Useful article there Scriv, thanks. It may have had a few drops of water splash into it, who knows?

[bloomwood]

My daughter cant eat cadburys chocolate, brings on a migraine, so I've always used galaxy for the top, never had a problem with it, but it does take a while to set.