Chocolate Substitutes

Compound chocolate, also called chocolate coating, is designed to replace couverture chocolate for coating and has the advantage of not needing to be tempered. Made from a vegetable oil base with sugar, milk solids and flavoring, compound chocolate contains cocoa powder, but no cocoa butter. Its flavor is inferior to couverture, but it sets faster in hot weather, so it is the choice of many cooks for candymaking in summer, and is also used for chocolate decorations. For dipping, compound chocolate is melted exactly like other chocolate.