OT Ping Bakers

Nov 27, 2007 5 Replies
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I know some of you are into baking and I have a question about adding flavored oils. I saw small bottles of flavored oils at AC Moore and it said highly concentrated. There weren't any directions on the bottle. I want to make some chocolate covered spoons for Christmas guests and I was thinking about adding raspberry to some and almond to another batch. Each batch would be 1 lb of chocolate melting wafers.



Can someone tell me how much to add?


I would suggest maybe only a teaspoon. Most recipes that I have seen use a teaspoon of flavored extract. I wonder if it is too concentrated to taste it alone, and you could judge just how concentrated it really is? HTH Linda

OOOPS Sorry Scout Lady! okay I replied to this before I did some online searching. The flavor oils are different from extracts (I didnt know that)and are much more concentrated, and they suggested to NOT taste them alone..too bitter.. and to use one or two drops to taste. I hadn't seen chocolate dipped spoons, and I ran across some really cute examples. What a fun thing to make for a party. Good luck and have fun making them! Linda

I know I looked it up on the internet years ago when I used my flavored oils. I believe it was 5 drops of the oil. I remember and my suggestion would be to start out at half the amount the recipe says. The mint was WAY too minty and I had to double the chocolate. The raspberry was an odd flavor and I remember wishing I had used less of it too. So, start off small you can add more later. I would put a large drop on wax paper and stick it in the freezer and then taste it before making my spoons.

Lynne

I bought some more wafers and a half dozen different flavors. I will try a drop with a half a bag at a time and see how it goes. Last year was the first time that I saw them, a friend gave me a dozen different flavors and I really enjoyed them.

Great idea Lynne, I wouldn't have thought of making a test drop. I bought some more wafers just in case I need to add some to cut down on the intensity of the flavoring.

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