Tagged with 'chocolate'

4 Delicious Recipes with Dark Chocolate Couverture

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When you are contemplating supplying your bakery with the right chocolate, one ingredient you should consider is dark chocolate couverture. Chocolate couverture in general is an important ingredient in a lot of desserts, but having the specific dark chocolate option is an important ingredient to have because it’s such a popular flavor and best completes various recipes.

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Most Important Chocolate Candy-Making Tools and Supplies

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In order to best succeed, you should have the best options available, including the ones in your display case. That’s why every bakery owner should prioritize their chocolate candy-making process. But what specific supplies could really up your chocolate candy to the next level?

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3 Best Molding Chocolate and What to Make with Them

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We may carry the most essential ingredients from the top-rated brands, but it can be difficult to figure out which ingredients are right for you and your bakery. Molding chocolate is just one of those ingredients that has a ton of options available.

This ingredient is ideal for melting, then using to mold in your baking. Let’s have a look at the three best molding chocolate we have in stock and what you can use them for.

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How and When to Use Merckens Chocolate Wafers in Your Bakery

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Your bakery requires the best supplies and ingredients so you can create the finest and most desirable baked goods. Without them, your culinary creations won’t come out the way you require, nor will they satisfy your hungry customers. However, there are some baking ingredients that have a multitude of uses along with misuses. So it’s important you know which ingredients to use where to amplify your yummy treats.

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5 Classic Recipes with Chocolate Chunks

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One of the most important ingredients to have readily available at any bakery is evident: chocolate. Bakery clients cannot get enough chocolate! And can we really blame them? While chocolate cakes and other chocolate-centered desserts are important to any bakery, there are a lot of desserts that require chocolate chips and chocolate chunks for baking. Therefore, every bakery should have these in abundance and ready to go.

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How to Work With Merckens Chocolate Melts

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One of the exciting elements of baking and working in a professional kitchen is the decorating process. You get to show off your creativity and try new designs to create beautiful finished products that immediately capture people's attention. In order to bring all of your ideas to reality, you need to have the right materials to work with. Ingredients that are easy to manipulate and give you plenty of versatility so you can create all sorts of designs for any occasion.

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5 Ways to Use Unsweetened Dark Chocolate in Your Baked Goods

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Chocolate is a food that nearly everybody can agree is delectable and divine. It’s delicious, of course, but it also triggers the release of both endorphins and serotonin in the brain. Therefore, it makes our taste buds happy, our stomachs happy, and yes-- even our brains happy. It is an edible pleasure that nearly everyone enjoys.

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Easy Summer Dessert Recipes: Chocolate Dipped Bananas

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How much could a banana cost, Michael, $10?

If you know where that's from - you know what's up.

Pro tip: freeze your bananas ahead of time
The next addition in our Easy Summer Dessert Recipes is an oldie but a goodie - Chocolate Covered Bananas.

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Merckens Chocolate: The Ultimate Candy Making Chocolate

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Many confectioners prefer the beautiful glossy sheen, crisp snap and delectably unctuous mouthfeel of couverture chocolate, and use it in all of their baking and candy making. However, high quality couverture chocolates, which are carefully formulated and concocted by extremely experienced chocolatiers (such as those as Callebaut) are made with a sensitive balance of cocoa solids and cocoa liquids.

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Why You Should Use Oil Based Food Coloring for Chocolate

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You may have heard of the expression “oil and water” to express the idea that some media won’t mix. This metaphor is aptly applied to situations in which ingredients or companies won’t mix, and it is rooted in reality - oil and water do not mix.

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