Chocolate Frogs
yield: depends on your mold
**Find a plastic chocolate mold of frog shapes (silicone is harder to get out)
Depending on your chocolate mold, melt enough chocolate for one round of frogs at a time.
We have used semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips and both have been great. You can also use more expensive chocolate. The chocolate chip version tastes just great for about 2 days, and then the taste changes a little. Ours don't last longer than that, so chips are great!
Melt your chocolate - you can do the microwave, but I have never had chocolate seize up while using a diy double boiler on the stove: a metal mixing bowl that is slightly larger than a sauce pan. It sits on top of the sauce pan while the water in the saucepan boils and nicely melts the chocolate. Stir continually near the point of being melts so it doesn't get too hot. I take it off the heat right before all the chips are melted and stir-melt the remaining few.
*Whichever method, don't let even a drop of water get into your melting chocolate.
Put one layer of chocolate in the molds, enough to cover the bottom. Then pull that chocolate up the sides so most of the mold is covered in the first layer. Use a toothpick if you have to get the bubbles outs of any spots (the eyes!)
Put in the freezer for 5 min.
Remove and put any fun filling in -
*peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar
*melted caramel about the softness needed for caramel apples
*marshmallow fluff
*nuts
*caramel and sea salt
* potato chip pieces
* cookie dough (egg free if you don't want to refrigerate)
*more??
Cover the filling and the remaining mold with melted chocolate. Tap the tray to get bubbles out and even the bottom. Remove extra chocolate.
Place in the freezer for 10 mins. but don't leave in the freezer.
Take the mold out and gently bend it while holding upside down to pop the frogs out.
Enjoy! Store in a cool place.
