This is a pretty simple and fun activity that can be done at home within the timespan of about an hour.

Materials:

• Chocolate bars
  Any type of chocolate will do, but the chocolate bars used should not contain nuts.

• Plastic moulds.
  These can be found at your local dollar store (100 Yen Shop) here in Japan, or in the baking/cooking goods section of many department stores such as K-Mart, etc.

• Small glass.
  For melting the chocolate.

• Spoon.

• Pot.

• Oven mitt.

Procedure:

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1. Melt the chocolate.

Open the chocolate bar.

Place the broken chunks of the chocolate bar into a small glass for melting, in a pot filled with water a little below the brim of the small glass. Apply heat (a stove or any other safe heat source can be used. Here we are using the top of our kerosene heater). Wait until the chocolate reaches a melted, basically smooth, muddy consistency, stirring intermittently.

2. Place the melted chocolate into the moulds and let it cool.

Handling the melting glass with your oven mitt, remove it from the pot, and use a spoon to evenly spread, push, and shape the melted chocolate into the various moulds.

NOTE: This clear mould is not the mold in the first picture. We used a few different types.

Place the plastic mould in the refrigerator for cooling/hardening. Wait 40 - 50 minutes, and check the consistency. The chocolate should be hard, and cool to the touch.

3. Remove the chocolates from the plastic mould and...EAT!

After removing the cooled chocolate from the refrigerator, carefully break off and remove the hardened edges/excess with your hands, leaving only the intended shape remaining. Then...EAT!!!! :)

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~KafkA

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