Chocolate with Wood Grain

Making this unusual wood-grain design in chocolate takes time to master fully. In addition to practice and patience, you will need one or two wood-graining tools. These are small, inexpensive plastic tools that were formerly available only at hardware or art supply stores, made for texturing paint on furniture. Using them to make a pattern in chocolate has become popular enough that the tools are now specially made for our industry — generally in sizes 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) long — and