Homemade chocolate drops

• dark chocolate↗200g g

  (we used 70% cocoa content)

• a pinch of hot chilli powder
• red edible glitter↗

  (we used splatcooking.com)

• milk chocolate↗200g g

  (we used Green & Black's cook's chocolate with extra cocoa butter)

• an eighth of a tsp flaky sea salt tsp
• pistachios↗25g g

  finely chopped

• white chocolate↗200g g
• crystallised rosé

  petals (we used squires-shop.com)

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   For the dark chilli drops: break the chocolate into chunks and melt in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water. Meanwhile, line a few flat baking trays with baking parchment. Once the chocolate has melted, stir in the chilli powder. Use a teaspoon to drop ‘drops’ of the chocolate onto the baking parchment. Every 10 or 20 drops, scatter over a small amount of red glitter before the chocolate sets. Leave to set in a cool place, but do not put in the fridge.

2. 2

   For the salted pistachio drops: melt the chocolate and prepare baking parchment as before. Once the chocolate has melted, stir in the salt, then make drops as above, topping with chopped pistachios.

3. 3

   For the white chocolate drops: carefully melt the chocolate as above. Make drops, as above. Once they are partially set, top each with a crystallised rose petal.