Heavy Cream Powder
This is a dried heavy cream powder. Something you may not have ever seen before nor used in making chocolate. There is no commercial product (yet?) that contains heavy cream powder, so by using this you are in uncharted and exciting territory. First off some data: 71.5% fat by weight12.5% lactose (sugar)8.8% Protein 7.2% moisture and ash Ingredients: Pasteurized sweet cream, skim milk solids, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin, bht. It is certified Kosher. The first thing you should notice is how high the fat content is. It is cream after all. What that means is that you need to that number in your calculations if you are shooting for a certain fat content chocolate. The other thing to note is that unlike using milk powder you can use this without the addition of extra cocoa butter. What you need to be careful of is that you do not use too much. Here is the first batch I made. 2 lb 75% dark chocolate 1 lb Heavy Cream powder It was that simple but it also was too much butter fat an