On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:58:42 -0600, Damaeus
> wrote:

> I asked my friend to pick up some mini semi-sweet chocolate chips -- the
> little teeny tiny ones, but he got the big chocolate chips. Now I've got
> two extra bags of chocolate chips that I don't want to use so I thought I
> might try to melt them down to make some chocolate candy with a variety of
> chopped nuts in it. But I don't like the taste of semi-sweet chocolate as
> a candy. I want to melt it, sweeten it to make it more like milk
> chocolate, mix in some chopped almonds, pecans and walnuts, then drop onto
> waxed paper to cool.
>
> Now how do I go about converting these rather bitter, semi-sweet chocolate
> chips into something sweeter without ending up with a mess?
>
>

Damaeus, why don't you do something else with the chocolate chips?
Make chocolate fondue, granola or cookies - those gooey bars on the
label of sweetened condensed milk are pretty darned good. Search
http://www.joyofbaking.com for "recipes using chocolate chips" for
ideas and recipes.


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