Originally Posted by
tfar
Too bad that happened to the chocolate, although I am not sure why it happened. Even if you mix water into chocolate it will not harden the chocolate. After all you can make a hot chocolate out of molten chocolate and water (milk is preferable but water works). You say you mixed a batter in it. Maybe the temperature difference was simply too big. I don't know what was wrong.
Till
Yes, it's clear you don't know what went wrong. Here's a short explanation of what went wrong:
http://www.chocolate.com/recipes/the...chocolate.html
Interesting that this website says not to use butter - the chocolatier I studied with did use butter to rescue a tightened chocolate.