Mission: Valentine Treat Attempts

Valentine Day is a great time to make chocolate treats to share around with friends.  I have been collecting heart-shaped tins and silicon molds for years.  Since I got to Oregon I have collected more!

This morning I tried to make some chocolate wafers to share at the office.  I used the 10-heart pan with decorated bottoms which will become the tops.

This is what I did:

Turned on the oven to 350 degrees F. since this silicon pan can be used in the oven.

Placed 6 Wilton Candy Melts wafers in each well.

Place silicon mold onto a cookie sheet.

Placed in the pre-heated oven for 3 minutes.

Removed from oven.

Picked the silicon pan up by the edges and whacked it onto the counter several times.

Not all the wafers had totally melted so I put it back in the oven for 1 minute.

Removed from oven and whacked on counter top again.  They seemed perfectly melted.

Placed cookie sheet and pan in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Not long enough.

Placed cookie sheet and pan BACK in refrigerator for 20 MORE minutes.

Pushed out of the pan without breaking the pan.

Next I tried putting only 3 wafers in each heart well as the other ones seemed too thick. (You counted them, didn't you!  And found one was missing.  Yes, that was me. I should have asked Dear One to try it. Oh well. He will have a chance.)

This batch I only put in oven for 2 minutes.  They were ready to go into the refrigerator with a few whacks on the countertop.

After 10 minutes in the ready to come out of the refrigerator.

There was some breakage here so I decided to try 4 wafers on the next batch...but that will be the last batch for now.  I can't keep getting up from the computer to check.  The timer is such a help but the time goes by REALLY fast when you are trying to do other things....

For the 4-wafer attempt...I put them in the oven for 2 1/2 minutes.  They could probably have used another few seconds.  I used the end of a spoon handle to stir them around a bit.  I had started house a toothpick when I remembered the instructions : use no sharp objects with silicon pans!  I was able to stir in the last of the slightly unmelted wafers then whacked them again and put in refrigerator for 10 minutes.