What to do with Chocolate Covered Raisins?Throw some chocolate covered raisins in your oatmeal or use in cookies, bread, muffins, or coffee cake--or just eat them as a snack!
Raisinets are one of my favorite movie treats. Raisinets were first made in 1927 by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company. Nestlé acquired the brand in 1984 and added the motto "Taste the Sunshine." Raisinets are made with California Raisins and milk chocolate. There is now a dark chocolate version, as well. Many confectioners make chocolate covered raisins, so check them out, along with those from your favorite chocolatier.
Raisinets are nostalgia food for me. but the real cook in me says make your own if you want to get a higher-end chocolate covered raisin. Here's a simple recipe, and you can change it up by using different types of chocolate.
Chocolate Covered Raisins
Ingredients
6 ounces Chocolate -- 60%-75% chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup dark corn syrup
2 Tbsp powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla
2 cup organic raisins
Directions
Combine chocolate and corn syrup in saucepan on top of another saucepan (or double boiler). Bring water to boil. Reduce heat to low. Cook until chocolate melts, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in powdered sugar, vanilla, and raisins.
Drop by half teaspoons onto waxed paper; chill.
Store in refrigerator.
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