Recipe: Perfect Chocolate Coated Chestnuts

Chocolate Coated Chestnuts.

You can have Chocolate Coated Chestnuts using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chocolate Coated Chestnuts

1. It's 20 of Roasted & Peeled Chestnuts.
2. You need 1 tablespoon of Rum OR Brandy.
3. You need 120 g of Dark Chocolate *broken into small pieces.

Chocolate Coated Chestnuts instructions

1. Place Chestnuts in a small bowl, sprinkle with Rum (OR Brandy) and marinate over night. *I found wrapping with a piece of plastic food wrap is the best way to evenly marinate Chestnuts with the minimal amount of Rum..
2. Dry the marinated Chestnuts with paper towel..
3. Place broken Chocolate in a heat-proof bowl, and heat in the microwave for 1-2 minutes OR over a saucepan of boiling water. Mix well until smooth..
4. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Dip a few Chestnuts in the melted Chocolate, then pick up using 2 forks or chopsticks, one Chestnut at a time, and lay on the prepared baking paper. Repeat with remaining Chestnuts..
5. Allow them to cool until Chocolate has set..