Sweet Essentials: Chocolate

Chocolate! It’s one of my all-time favourite ingredients and it shows because chocolate features heavily in my creations. It is handy to know a few tricks and tips, though, to help you get the most out of this luxurious ingredient and make the best possible cakes and desserts. I use couverture chocolate, which is a chocolate that contains more cocoa butter than regular chocolate. It produces a better finish on any of my sweet recipes that contain chocolate as it creates great snap and shine. Couverture chocolate is widely available in specialist food ingredient shops or online and can be found in some supermarkets these days, too.