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Somewhere in the early 1500s in rural China, this meteorite fell. The locals thought it was dragons and accordingly, left them alone. Nobody messes with dragons unless they absolutely have to.

Fast-forward to the cultural revolution and now, no dragons anymore (😭) but they need metal and so they went out and gathered up the pieces. Luckily their ovens were not hot enough to melt it and that's why I have this little piece!

We've got a birthday coming up and the birthday girl asked for special chocolates and I had some PEX laying around so!

To do this you will need mushrooms, completely dry and ground up. A chocolate melter, a chocolate bar mold (I'm using one of the Dubai chocolate molds off Amazon), a metal spatula, a rubber spatula or whatever you like to stir with, and some chocolate chips.

We're using chocolate chips because they don't require tempering since they have emulsifiers in them so they will hold their shape in a 350° oven. Now take your mold and fill it with your chocolate chips. Yes, unmelted. This will tell you how much chocolate you need to fill the mold and then put another tablespoon or 2 in there on top of that.

Put them in your chocolate melter and melt it. Be sure to let the chocolate melt fully, you don't want any lumps. Mix in your ground mushrooms, this was 16 g so I did it in two batches.

You might need to warm up your chocolate again because mixing in the ground up mushrooms will bring the temperature of the mass down.

It won't hurt the chocolate to warm it up again and it won't hurt the actives. Heat will destroy our magic chemical but it takes a lot of heat and concentrated for a long time, like half an hour. 2 to 3 minutes in a chocolate melter will hurt nothing. This is the same reason making tea and doing a flash sauté works so well.

OK you got your mass pliable again, put it in the chocolate bar mold. This is what you need your spatula for, to get it down into the mold and also, pick up your mold and smack it down on the counter a few times to get out any bubbles that might be in there.

Pop it in the fridge and 30 minutes later, take it out. Remove, slice it up, paint if you like and put in foil if you like.

Have a lovely day!

My favorite brother ensuring he has a steady stream of baked goods across his threshold. I was not expecting two good omens badges, but I'm not complaining and I love the key ring! The hoodie is beautiful and thick and very soft, I will be wearing it until I die and possibly getting buried in it, I haven't decided yet.

To you good folk at the Discworld Emporium, thank you so very much!!

He does not understand.

But he has started it at long last. Please, I don't care about Candy Quackenbush just give me the third book of the Art!!

i've got about four KG of this material now but I have to keep it away from Athena. She got to sniff it really close and then no more.

Just got this little guy and welcomed him home and he had one flower two days ago when he got here. Now he has two! Open informed this is a self polinating variety so I will be introducing a paintbrush into the equation when they're a little more open.

Jusssst about ready!

also not mine, but I had to share. Oookk!

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