Remember Magic Shell, that thin chocolate sauce that you pour over ice cream? It "magically" hardens in a matter of seconds into a waxy layer of hard chocolate. It's junk food, and we love it. We don't love the trans-fats and mysterious ingredients, though, so it's a good thing you can easily make it yourself...
DIY Magic Shell Ice Cream Sauce
Jocelyn at Brownie Points explains how just melted chocolate and coconut oil together make Magic Shell, DIY-version. She also gives tips for adjusting the texture and flavor.
Go read! And make your own batch for all that homemade ice cream you know you want to make.
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Oh my gosh. My prayers have been answered. This is one of those reallllly bad things that I let myself buy biannually. Now I won't have to.
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Fantastic!!! Thank you!
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when i was growing up we weren't allowed to eat the magic shell - it was only for my dad. when i first moved out on my own i would use more shell then ice cream:) now i have it maybe once a year but i always feel like i will be in big trouble if my daddy catches me (how sillly is that!).
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hi there, i discovered this a couple weeks ago trying to mimic nata de coco, my favorite topping at sno:la--used coconut milk over hibiscus ice cream...white magic shell. really, really good!
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I remember once being so desperate for some magic shell that I put it on an ice cube because we didn't have any ice cream. It must be that coconut oil that makes it sooooo tasty!
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are you kidding me? my sister and i used to just freeze spoons, pour it on and scrape it off with our teeth!
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"i always feel like i will be in big trouble if my daddy catches me" (how creepy is that?)
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"Mysterious ingredients" in Magic Shell: Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, Chocolate, Whole Milk Solids, Cocoa Processed With Alkali.
Coconut oil is a transfat but sunflower oil is not, so the DIY recipe contains a greater proportion of transfats than the packaged version.
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