Name: Homemade chocolate drops
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Makes about 200, enough for 20-40 gifts
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200g dark chocolate (we used 70% cocoa content); a pinch of hot chilli powder; red edible glitter (we used splatcooking.com); 200g milk chocolate (we used Green & Black's cook's chocolate with extra cocoa butter); an eighth of a tsp flaky sea salt; 25g pistachios finely chopped; 200g white chocolate; crystallised rosé petals (we used squires-shop.com)

For dark chilli drops

200g dark chocolate
(we used 70% cocoa content)
a pinch of hot chilli powder
red edible glitter
(we used splatcooking.com)

For salted pistachio drops

200g milk chocolate
(we used Green & Black's cook's chocolate with extra cocoa butter)
an eighth of a tsp flaky sea salt
25g pistachios
finely chopped

For rose drops

200g white chocolate
crystallised rosé
petals (we used squires-shop.com)

Method

step 1
For the dark chilli drops: break the chocolate into chunks and melt in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Meanwhile, line a few flat baking trays with baking parchment. Once the chocolate has melted, stir in the chilli powder. Use a teaspoon to drop ‘drops’ of the chocolate onto the baking parchment. Every 10 or 20 drops, scatter over a small amount of red glitter before the chocolate sets. Leave to set in a cool place, but do not put in the fridge.
step 2
For the salted pistachio drops: melt the chocolate and prepare baking parchment as before. Once the chocolate has melted, stir in the salt, then make drops as above, topping with chopped pistachios.
step 3
For the white chocolate drops: carefully melt the chocolate as above. Make drops, as above. Once they are partially set, top each with a crystallised rose petal.