Chocolate Chalets

The technique of spreading chocolate into a thin sheet, letting it set, then using a warm knife to cut the sheet into precise pieces (with or without a template) is quite common; it is often used to create small, elegant chocolate boxes to hold truffles and other candies. When made from plain chocolate, the lid of the box (and sometimes the sides) is usually decorated by piping intricate chocolate designs on top. When making boxes from marbleized chocolate, this is not necessary — in fact,