I love dark chocolate. The other night I wanted something sweet, but not too sweet, but also salty and kind of snacky. . . I went rummaging through my cupboards, but nothing was calling my name. Then I started dreaming about dark chocolate covered potato chips. I didn’t know if anyone had ever had that idea before, (they had according to the seller on Amazon who will ship you a pound of them for $20), but I decided to create my own.
3/4 of a bar of dark chocolate, melted in a double boiler type contraption (I rig my own using a pot of water with a metal bowl balanced on top). Once the chocolate is melted, add a small amount of oil to thin it so the chocolate layer isn’t too thick.
I coated about half of each chip because it gives you an area to hold without getting melted chocolate all over your hands and because it made for a better chip/chocolate ratio. Then in a normal house you would let them sit on the counter until they firm up, but we had to pop them in the fridge because in our warm house they’d never get past the melty stage. It would be better for the crispiness of the chip to not be exposed to the humidity of the fridge, but we’ve got a lot of humidity here so it won’t make much difference.
Then eat up! Next time I would use a little darker chocolate (this one was 52%) and get a chip that was a little bit saltier for more contrast between the sweet and the salty. They were really good and exactly what I was looking for. I don’t know if I would go through the process to make them again or just go for the same effect by eating chips and chocolate at the same time.
It does help if you have a clean-up crew to lick the bowl and eat all the leftover broken chip pieces.
Except by the time they were finished, the clean-up crew needed a clean-up crew of their own.