Name: 45% Dark Milk Chocolate Maker's Bundle
Brand: Mixed
SKU: 48227816997118
Availability: InStock

This is a richer, darker kind of milk chocolate: still creamy, still sweet, but with enough cacao character to taste like real bean-to-bar chocolate instead of candy coating. At 45% cacao, it is a good next step for makers who want milk chocolate with more depth than the grocery-store version.

Start with roasted cacao nibs for the simplest nib-to-bar path, or begin with whole cacao beans if you want the full roast, crack, and winnow process.

The recipe makes about 5.5 lb / 2.5 kg of chocolate and uses cocoa butter, whole milk powder, and organic sugar for a classic dark milk structure.

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What's Required

A Melanger. Refining the ingredients into smooth chocolate is non-negotiable — 24 hours of refining, no shortcut. This is the recipe's gating piece of equipment.

What's Recommended

Basic kitchen gear — oven (for warming the dry ingredients), heavy-bottomed pan (for melting the cocoa butter), spatula, sheet tray (for pouring the chocolate slab).
A tempering method you trust — standard methods all work for this recipe. Tempering happens between refining and pouring into molds.

Good to Know

The recipe calls for 24 oz / 1.5 lb roasted cacao nibs. Our nibs are sold in 1 lb and 2 lb sizes, so choose 2 lb and use 24 oz for the batch.
This recipe makes about 5.5 lb / 2.5 kg of chocolate. Make sure your melanger has enough working capacity before you start.
This is dark milk chocolate: creamier than dark chocolate, but with more cacao depth than a standard candy-style milk chocolate.
Whole milk powder is the milk ingredient for this recipe. Heavy cream powder is not a direct substitute.