Cocolate and Coffee Beans
By lena_mae1983
@lena_mae1983 (383)
United States
February 5, 2008 6:05pm CST
By mistake when I bought coffee yesterday I picked up whole bean sinstead of ground coffee. The store refused to let me exchange it out when I went back for ground coffee I could use in my coffee maker, so now I have an $8 bag of beans in my kitchen with no grinder. Since Valentine's Day is coming soon I thought maybe it would be cute to make chocolate covered coffee beans and put them in cute containers as gifts for my daughters teachers at school. Has anyone every tried making these? Is it easy to do? Also, any other suggestions for ways I can use these beans would be greatly appreciated.
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@schilds (410)
• United States
6 Feb 08
I made the same mistake not too long ago. I just used my food processor to grind them up. As far as chocolate coating it shouldn't be too hard - I would use the almond bark type chocolate. The hardest part would be seperating them while they dry. Maybe spread them way out on waxed paper. That's what I do with peanut butter balls, but they aren't so small.
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@lena_mae1983 (383)
• United States
6 Feb 08
Did the food processor work well in grinding the beans? I never thought of that idea. I just shook my head and called my boyfriend at work and told him if he didn't want a whole bunch of chocolate covered coffee beans then he needed to buy me a coffee grinder. I don't think he fell for it.
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@schilds (410)
• United States
6 Feb 08
It worked pretty well - the first batch I didn't grind up enough and it was really weak coffee, but when I ground it finer it worked. I actually just used the last of it this morning. I did a little at a time so they didn't get jammed under the blades.
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@lena_mae1983 (383)
• United States
7 Feb 08
I'm still procrastinating on doing anything with those things. The cold weather makes me so lazy sometimes, but I am definetly going to try grinding some of them up in a food processor and see how the cooffee turns out.
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@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
29 Jun 08
A friend of mine on MyLot makes her own.
I can't remember the recipe, but
they sound really good.
I guess she coats them with melted
chocolate and cools in the fridge.
She uses white chocolate too.
Oh, you could put the bag in your
purse and take it back to the store
and use the grinder in the coffee isle.
Just carry your receipt just in case someone
spots you.
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@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
29 Jun 08
I abolutely love chocolate covered coee beans. That is a really good idea you had to do that. I also like to stir them up in a bowl of melted chocolate, lay the mixture out on a cookie sheet on waked paper, freeze it, but it up, and make cofee bean bark out of it.
@brimia (6581)
• United States
6 Feb 08
I've never made the chocolate covered coffee beans but that would be a wonderful gift...they're delicious.
I've seen people use coffee beans surrounding a chunky candle in a plain glass vase/tall candle holder. The coffee beans are pretty and give off a wonderful scent when the candle burns.
