Ingredients
1、Blueberries: 250g
2、Dark Chocolate: 150g
3、Dark Chocolate for seeding: 50g
Directions
Step 1: Temper chocolate
Double Boiler Melted and Seeded.
1、Heat the water in a bowl then turn off the stove after boiling.
2、Place dark chocolate in the glass bowl and start melting chocolate by placing the glass bowl over the pot.
3、Keep stirring to heat the chocolate evenly until completely melted.
4、Remove the glass bowl from the pot when the temperature reaches 45-48°C（113-120℉）
(Wipe the water from the bottom of the glass bowl.)
5、Add seed chocolate into the melted chocolate.
6、Keep stirring to mix them until seed chocolate completely melted.
7、Stop stirring when the temperature drops to 26.6-28.8°C（80-84℉）
8、Replace the glass bowl over the pot.
9、Reheat the chocolate and keep stirring until the temperature reaches 31-32°C（88-90℉）
10、Remove the glass bowl from the pot and the tempered chocolate is complete.
Step 2: Coating
1、Install the Snackcoater.
2、Pour the blueberries into the coating container.
3、Set the minimum speed then begin coating.
4、Add a few drops of tempered chocolate onto the inside of the coating container.
5、Then stop adding chocolate and watch.
(Tip: The blueberries will transition from sliding slowly to rolling with some chocolate slowly solidifying on the surface. Be careful not to drop too much chocolate, otherwise it will cause all the blueberries to stick to the inner wall or stick together, and you need to manually remove it .)
6、Observe the state of the chocolate coating on the surface of the blueberries.
IF the chocolate coating on the surface changes from a liquid bright color to a solid dark color,then add a few drop again and observe the state, repeat them until all the chocolate is used up.
7、Otherwise, try to observe for another 5 minutes. If it still doesn’t work, please stop coating and return to the chocolate tempering step to retemper the chocolate.
All the chocolate is used up.Coating step is complete.
Take out the chocolate covered blueberries.
Step 3: Recycle the chocolate
1、Keep the coating container spinning, use a hair dryer to blow hot air against the inner wall to heat it up.
2、Let the chocolate melt, then use the silicone spatula to recycle it into the glass bowl.
(Tip: Retempering them first if you want to use the recycle chocolate to coat again.)
3、Recycle step is complete.
4、Clean the coating container.
Step 4: Glaze and polish
1、Glazing agents (Mix arabic gum and water in a ratio of 1:3)
(Tip: 450g of chocolate-covered blueberries requires less than 5g of glazing agents.)
2、Pour glazing agents into spray bottle.
3、Dry the cleaned coating container with a dishcloth or paper towel.
4、Pour the chocolate covered blueberries into the coating container.
5、Set the minimum speed then begin glazing and polishing.
6、Spray a few glazing agents on the inside of the coating container.
7、Spray a few glazing agents on the surface of the chocolate covered blueberries.
8、Wait about half an hour.
The brightening dark chocolate covered blueberries is complete!
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