Chocolates

I seem to cringe at the sight or sound of a toddler, baby, or young child being rewarded or just given choclate to eat. Why are we starting our kids out so young eating badwhen they would be fine without knowing chocolate is at this age.
Tammy – I have two babies 1 & 2 and I work very hard to feed them right.

I am with you all the way. Children that young are forming their eating habits and do not need the chocoalte and junk food at all in their diet. It messes up their diets and makes them very picky eaters when older. Chocolate has no nutritional value anyway-my 3 boys had treats that were healthy-banana chips-craisins-healthy things that help them form their tastes when older.

if they mix in equal amount.

There will be no problem as long as you have a cake pan, or pans, large enough to hold that much batter. Remember to combine the liquids and fats from both instructions.

3 friends take a chocolate tour and taste the fine chocolates of the Ethel M Chocolate Factory in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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A sneak peak into our Valentine Special shot on location at Donnelly Fine Chocolates in Santa Cruz. Becca learns from one of the worlds best chocolatiers, Richard Donnelly, on how to make fine chocolate. This episode airs Wednesday, February 10th @ 6:30.

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Ive heard that some cakes are made with raw eggs and some are not. Just wondering if cakes made in stores are made like this? and are chocolate cakes fine during pregnancy?

Cakes are all mixed using raw eggs, which then are baked into the cake making them cooked. Cake is not something you have to worry about for raw eggs unless for some zaney reason they decided to put raw egg into the frosting. Any food from your local grocer that contains raw egg or raw fish will be labeled with a cautionary sticker.

For fine details in chocolate moulds (high quality chocolate) I know you can thin chocolate with extra cocoa butter and spray with a large spay painting tool….. but I was wondering if it would easily get clogged in a smaller airbrush or if it did would it be easy to clean with hot water afterwards? It would be neat to make fine details on my chocolates. Has anyone had experience with this? My airbrush is a dual action eclipse model.

You can, but it has to be a special type of airbrush to do it. Many of the airbrushes in use let the lubricant from the compressor into the air line.

You thin the chocolate with cocoa butter and have to keep the chocolate at a constant temperature (87/88..) or it will set up.

If you have used the spray gun for other things (like paint), you’ll need a new one.

and example of the ‘food safe" types of airbrushes can be found at
http://www.chefrubber.com/Shopping/shopdisplaycategories.asp?id=150&cat=Airbrushes+%26+Compressors

Chefrubber also carries colored cocoa butter which is great for spraying into molds

I’ve seen some of the profesionals (at trade shows) do some really neat effects witht the colored cocoa butter, just make sure the spraygun stays warm.

Chocolate and cocoa butter have low melting points, so clean up is pretty easy with hot water, even if you forget and let the chocolate set up in the gun you can normally just heat up the spray gun with hot water to get it flowing again and then use more hot water to run through the spray gun to clean it out.

a beautiful rose made from a gourmet chocolate wrapper. don,t forget to save the sticker!!!

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Today, I bought myself a box of fine chocolates( swiss milk chocolates with honey and almond nougat) and a fine book( fresh men ).

Only something seems to be missing. What is it?

Thanks <3

A hot husband snuggling next to me under the comforter, reading, and eating with me. That’s what I’d say.
Peace!

My brain stops thinking. You leave unopened chocolate for a long time and it even passes its expiration date and those little bugs are all over my sweet chocolate. From where do they come because the chocolate tasted fine but I saw the sh*** bugs then I realized that the chocolate has expired. I’m thinking of decomposing but still from where they come?

they come from outside.they will crawl through tiny cracks in you house.i had a problem with leaving gum out on my table and a BUNCH of ants were on my table.

Wonderful !!
Cadbury Bournville’s latest TV advertisement that’s being aired in India.
Very different from the regular ads that we keep seeing on TV.

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