various flavors of homemade chocolate bonbons - Yulia Naumenko/Getty Images Tempered chocolate is the ultimate ingredient for dipping cookies and fruit, as well as for making chocolate bark and ...

If you want some affordable homemade gifts to give to friends and family members over the holiday period, chocolates are a great way to go. Not only do they taste delicious, but they look extra ...

Upgrade your homemade confections with this simple technique. If you’ve ever bitten into a shiny chocolate from a box of truffles, you’ve experienced the magic of tempering. The term refers to the ...

If you're making molded chocolates or any type of holiday candies, you need to know how to properly prepare the chocolate. Of course, you can use the melting wafers. But for the best candy such as ...

Quick tempering couverture chocolate: This method must be used with already tempered chocolate. The idea is to melt it without having it become untempered. Tempered chocolate is glossy and snaps when ...

In my life as a pastry chef, I’ve always held fast to the belief that there are certain flavors -- specifically coffee, lemon and chocolate -- that are best taken to the extreme. If I create a coffee ...

Valentine’s Day is around the corner so we chatted with Michael Laiskonis, Creative Director at the Institute of Culinary Education at the helm of the school's bean-to-bar Chocolate Lab on something ...

Glossy, velvety chocolate that snaps in the fingers and melts in the mouth is the chocolatier’s dream. But crafting cocoa confections with this optimal texture is no easy feat. The endeavor, known as ...