How to Make White Chocolate With 3 Ingredients

In this Instructable, I will show you how to make white chocolate from scratch. This homemade white chocolate recipe only requires 3 ingredients and is so easy to make! If I can do it, you can do it. Let's get started!

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Follow the easy steps below or watch the video tutorial or do both!

Step 1: Ingredients and Tools

Ingredients:

1/2 cup cocoa butter
1/2 cup whole milk powder
1/2 cup fine granulated sugar or confectioner's/powdered sugar, preferably without cornstarch added. But it is okay to use it with the cornstarch.

Just use an equal amount of each, or just slightly less sugar like 5% less.

Tools:

Food processor, high-speed blender, or spice/coffee grinder, a mortar, and pestle will work too.
Spatula
Pot with a bowl (pyrex or metal)
Water for double boiler method
Candy bar pan or mold
Chocolate Melanger, for really really smooth chocolate like you, find at the store.

Buy the cocoa butter and whole milk powder at www.olivenation.com and use the code MATT20 and get 20% off every order.

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Step 2: Is White Chocolate Actually Chocolate?

First, for the chocolate purists, I need to clear the air. White chocolate is not actually/technically chocolate. But we call it white chocolate just like we call hamburgers, hamburgers, even though they don't have ham in them. Or French Fries French Fries, even though they don't come from France, etc.

White chocolate classification is actually just a candy. :) It is made up of three main parts, fat, in this case, cocoa/cacao butter, which comes from cacao beans, sugar, and whole milk powder.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way, let's make some white chocolate. ;)

Step 3: Grind That Milk Powder and Sugar

Begin by placing the milk powder and sugar in a food processor, high powdered blender, spice grinder, etc. Blend until you get a fine powder. The more you blend it the finer the powder and the less gritty/grainy your white chocolate will be.

*TIP: If you can find powdered sugar without the added cornstarch use that. But if all you have is confectioner's sugar with the cornstarch, you can still use that. Actual chocolate doesn't have cornstarch in it, but it will still work okay. Otherwise, just use the granulated sugar, and grind it with the milk powder.

Chocolate factories, bakeries, chocolate shops, that make chocolate have a commercial chocolate melanger, which turns and grinds the chocolate for a few days, and that is what makes it super smooth. That is very hard to imitate at home.

You can pick up a home chocolate melanger, which is much cheaper but still expensive, and you will get the same results. This would be good if you wanted to start a chocolate business out of your home.

If you have one of those you don't even need to use the food processor. You just add the melted cocoa butter to the melanger along with the sugar and milk powder and let it run for a few days.

Step 4: Melt the Cocoa Butter

Now it is time to melt the cocoa/cacao butter. You may be able to find it at your local grocery store or a specialty store. If you can't find it there, I get mine from www.olivenation.com If you buy from them use the code MATT20 and get 20% off every order. You can get the whole milk powder from there as well. And so many other amazing products.

The cocoa butter may look like the little yellow discs or like big chunks, it just depends on where you buy it.

Place the cocoa butter in a pyrex or metal bowl and set it on top of a small pot with about an inch of water in it. Set the burner to medium. As the water heats up, the steam will warm the bowl which will gently melt the cacao butter.

TIP: You can also melt it in a microwave-safe bowl in the microwave. Use bursts of 30 seconds stirring in between until melted.

Step 5: Blending the White Chocolate

Once the cacao butter is melted pour it into the food processor or blender. Don't do this step with a spice grinder.

Now blend for 15 to 30 seconds or so. You can blend it a little longer as well.

NOTE: If you used a spice grinder to grind up the milk powder and sugar, just whisk that into the melted cocoa powder while it is on the stovetop.

Step 6: Pour, Tap, Chill, Serve

Now pour the white chocolate into your candy bar or chocolate mold. With this amount, you should be able to get about 5 good-sized bars.

Give the mold a few taps on the counter to level it and release any air bubbles that might be in the chocolate.

Then place in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes to set.

Remove them from the mold and serve!

To store it just place the bars in a sandwich bag and put it in your pantry. As long as it isn't too warm in your home it will store fine at room temperature.

Enjoy!

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