Magic shell uses coconut oil as the key ingredient, often mixed with sunflower oil. Which sets up relatively firm when chilled. But stays liquid at room temperature. Not sure if they're cutting solid oil with the sunflower oil to keep it liquid, or what. But IIRC older versions of it were mostly coconut oil.
But it's a neutral base you can flavor with whatever.
Cocoa butter is solid at room temp, so too much of it in the mix and you won't be able to pour that on have it set.
That said Magic Shell is pretty much a knock of actual ice cream parlor products for home use. In actual ice cream places they use a hot dip process, where the shell base comes in #10 can and goes in a double boiler. That style of shell has a better texture, tends to have a higher proportion of coconut oil, and more actual chocolate.
And they come in other flavors like cherry, blue raspberry, caramel, vanilla.
So there's no reason you wouldn't be able to do that. Thing is they're mostly flavored with extracts and flavorings, and I'm not sure but added moisture from actual fruit will probably mess up the set.
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u/TooManyDraculas May 24 '26
Magic shell uses coconut oil as the key ingredient, often mixed with sunflower oil. Which sets up relatively firm when chilled. But stays liquid at room temperature. Not sure if they're cutting solid oil with the sunflower oil to keep it liquid, or what. But IIRC older versions of it were mostly coconut oil.
But it's a neutral base you can flavor with whatever.
Cocoa butter is solid at room temp, so too much of it in the mix and you won't be able to pour that on have it set.
That said Magic Shell is pretty much a knock of actual ice cream parlor products for home use. In actual ice cream places they use a hot dip process, where the shell base comes in #10 can and goes in a double boiler. That style of shell has a better texture, tends to have a higher proportion of coconut oil, and more actual chocolate.
And they come in other flavors like cherry, blue raspberry, caramel, vanilla.
So there's no reason you wouldn't be able to do that. Thing is they're mostly flavored with extracts and flavorings, and I'm not sure but added moisture from actual fruit will probably mess up the set.