choc chips vs morsels

"Barbara Mayo-Wells" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Frosting recipe is:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk 5 tbsp margarine or butter 1 cup semi-sweet
chocolate chips (6 oz package)

Combine sugar, milk, & margarine, bring to a boil, boil 1
minute stirring constantly. Remove from heat, stir in
chocolate chips until smooth. Pour and spread over warm
bars. Cool completely.

Today's problem: I inadvertently bought Nestle chocolate
morsels instead of chocolate chips (they were on sale,
half price), and used them. I stirred and stirred and
stirred -- 20 minutes at least -- and the mixture never
did get totally smooth. Little flecks of chocolate
throughout. Tasted good, but looked crummy, and I was
hoping to impress with this one.

Any ideas about why this happened?

The morsels seized...That is to say there was a higher % of
chocolate in the morsels than in the chips and true
chocolate doesn't like to boil.

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.

in article [email hidden], Barbara Mayo-Wells at [email hidden]
wrote on 4/3/04 1:20 PM:

Quoted message said:

I have a crowd-pleasing quick-and-easy church cookbook
recipe that never fails. Dagnabbit, today it did.

Frosting recipe is:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk 5 tbsp margarine or butter 1 cup semi-sweet
chocolate chips (6 oz package)

Combine sugar, milk, & margarine, bring to a boil, boil 1
minute stirring constantly. Remove from heat, stir in
chocolate chips until smooth. Pour and spread over warm
bars. Cool completely.

Today's problem: I inadvertently bought Nestle chocolate
morsels instead of chocolate chips (they were on sale,
half price), and used them. I stirred and stirred and
stirred -- 20 minutes at least -- and the mixture never
did get totally smooth. Little flecks of chocolate
throughout. Tasted good, but looked crummy, and I was
hoping to impress with this one.

Any ideas about why this happened?

Nestle calls their chocolate chips "morsels". They are the
same thing.

What brand do you usually buy? Perhaps the brand you've
bought before melts better than Nestle's does.

The thing about chocolate chips/morsels is that they are
designed to hold their shape in cookies after baking. So
they melt a little on the inside, but they never fully melt.
That's desirable in cookies, but not in recipes that call
for smooth, melted chocolate.

For melting, you are better off buying a semi-sweet bar of
baking chocolate (Ghiradelli makes one, as does Baker's,
both of which are available at most supermarkets.) and
breaking it apart. Bar chocolate will melt more smoothly
chips/morsels. Hershey's and Nestles also make squares of
semi-sweet (as well as unsweetened) chocolate that are meant
to be melted before using.

Quoted message said:

The frosting usually stays soft and has a pleasing sheen.
It goes atop the following:

CHOCOLATE CHERRY BARS: 1 pkg Pillsbury Moist Supreme
devil's food cake mix 1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling 1
tsp almont extract 1 eggs, beaten

Combine ingredients, stir until well blended, spread in
greased 15 x 10 x 1 inch pan. Bake at 350 F until
toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 20-30
minutes. Frost, cool completely, and cut into bars.

Barbara Mayo-Wells said:

I have a crowd-pleasing quick-and-easy church cookbook
recipe that never fails. Dagnabbit, today it did.

Frosting recipe is:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk 5 tbsp margarine or butter 1 cup semi-sweet
chocolate chips (6 oz package)

Combine sugar, milk, & margarine, bring to a boil, boil 1
minute stirring constantly. Remove from heat, stir in
chocolate chips until smooth. Pour and spread over warm
bars. Cool completely.

Today's problem: I inadvertently bought Nestle chocolate
morsels instead of chocolate chips (they were on sale, half
price), and used them. I stirred and stirred and stirred --
20 minutes at least -- and the mixture never did get
totally smooth. Little flecks of chocolate throughout.
Tasted good, but looked crummy, and I was hoping to impress
with this one.

Any ideas about why this happened?

The frosting usually stays soft and has a pleasing sheen.
It goes atop the following:

CHOCOLATE CHERRY BARS: 1 pkg Pillsbury Moist Supreme
devil's food cake mix 1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling 1
tsp almont extract 1 eggs, beaten

Combine ingredients, stir until well blended, spread in
greased 15 x 10 x 1 inch pan. Bake at 350 F until toothpick
inserted in center comes out clean, about 20-30 minutes.
Frost, cool completely, and cut into bars.

I have made this recipe several time with Nestle's chocolate
morsels and had no problem. Only difference is my recipe
calls for butter. I also used to make the mint chocolate
chip cookies with the Nestle's mint morsels and the recipe
calls for melting 1/2 of the chips. Never a problem.

--
Susan N.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who
understand binary and those who do not.