We love chocolate, we love fruit and we love an easy dessert!
Melted chocolate makes any fruit into dessert, and it’s literally the simplest thing you can prepare for a Friday night treat.
Pour a bag of chocolate chips into a quart-size freezer Ziploc bag and seal. Place that bag into a small aluminum pan or a Pyrex dish. Fill the pan with boiling water. After 3-5 minutes, it should be completely melted. Cover the pan and place it on top of your Crock-Pot or blech. This will keep it at a perfect temperature until it’s time to serve.
The chocolate will start hardening as soon as it gets wet, so no dipping is allowed! You can either prepare a platter of fruit and drizzle on or you can serve some to each person in a small bowl or ramekin to use for their fruit. Put a little spoon on the plate so they can spoon or drizzle the chocolate on to the fruit of their choice without hardening the rest. Or so they can just eat it with the spoon like my kid does!
Is there any problem of nolad when taking the chocolate off the pot and causing it to harden?
I wonder if it’s not a problem because the chocolate was solid to begin with. I don’t know, would need to find out.
It would seem that this recipe would be a problem of bishul on shabbos.
If the liquid chocolate is over 110 degrees (which is not extremely hot, merely very warm), it may not be poured directly from a kli rishon onto a raw fruit.
It would also be assur to dip a raw fruit into the still-hot chocolate which is in a kli sheini.
The only permissible way to get the chocolate onto the fruit, would be to pour from a kli sheini onto the fruit.
Please consult your LOR for details.
I like to add some topping to the chocolate so the consistency ends up a bit runner i.e. ganache. That also prevents it from hardening quickly. This does not need to be so hot when served and it seems quite unlikely that there should be any issur of bishul involved. ( We also like to put out breadsticks, dried fruits, some frozen fruit, and cubed pound cake for variety!)
what do you add to the chocolate?
I melt chocolate chips with some whip topping