How To Make Dubai Chocolate Bar

dark chocolate

🥗Healthier: dark chocolate with stevia

💰Cheaper: semi-sweet chocolate chips

Stevia reduces sugar content while maintaining sweetness.

pistachios

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds provide similar crunch at a lower cost.

sweetened condensed milk

🥗Healthier: coconut cream

💰Cheaper: evaporated milk + sugar

Coconut cream is dairy-free and rich.

edible gold leaf

💰Cheaper: gold dust

Gold dust offers a similar visual effect at a lower price.

Melt the butter in a large frying pan over medium heat, then add the katafi and cook until it is a lovely golden toasted color. This should take about 10 minutes with occasional stirring.

In a large bowl, stir together the pistachio cream, tahini, and salt until combined.

Add the toasted katafi to the pistachio cream mixture and stir together until evenly distributed. Set aside while you prepare the chocolate.

Melt your chocolate over a double boiler, or in the microwave in 30-second bursts. For the best results, temper your chocolate.

Pour most of the melted chocolate into your molds and tilt it in every direction so the chocolate covers all sides of the mold. Tip the mold upside down over the chocolate bowl and shake gently to remove excess chocolate. Put it in the fridge to set.

Once the chocolate has set, fill the molds with the crunchy pistachio filling and push it into all the corners. Be careful not to overfill.

Pour the remaining chocolate over the top of the bars to seal it in, then use a bench scraper or spatula to run over the top of the mold and remove excess chocolate.

Put the chocolate bars in the fridge to set completely before turning them out of the molds.

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