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Giveaway #36: (CLOSED) Couture Chocolate by William Curley

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Rare is the treat a book that will not only impress your friends on your coffee table but teach you something valuable as well.

Couture Chocolate gives detailed information how to undertake chocolate making skills at very highest level but remains a readable joy to flick through and drool over.

You may remember I reviewed this book shortly before Christmas:

William Curley is one of the country’s top chocolatiers, having worked at numerous Michelin-starred restaurants with a number of the most respected chefs and pâtissiers in the business. Couture Chocolate is an astonishing homage to chocolate patisserie. Beyond being any other chocolate cookery book, it demonstrates in pictures highly skilled techniques that go into creating the most elaborate chocolates and desserts. For most people this is very advanced and would see little further action than oo-ing and arr-ing on the coffee table, however if you were someone wanting to set up their own chocolate business this publication would be an inspiring and beautiful textbook.

I am delighted to have three copies for Maison Cupcake readers to win by following the instructions below.

Couture Chocolate: A Masterclass in Chocolate by William Curley is published by Jacqui Small in hardback RRP £30.00. (Although currently at the bargain price of £19 on Amazon.)

Giveaway #36: Win “Couture Chocolate” by William Curley (three copies)

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Check out these other great Maison Cupcake giveaways happening now:

Until February 9th:

Hotel Chocolat Beauty Box RRP £50!

Until February 28th:

Two copies of Weight Watchers The Complete Kitchen!

Three copies of William Curley’s Couture Chocolate!

£50 Groupon Voucher!

 

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Comments

  6. Catherine says

    Cote D’Or in general, and their Bouchee’s in particular. Can’t find them in the UK, which is such a pity!

  9. Choclette says

    Oh I do want this book. The chocolate that stands out most was some of Marc Demarqette’s chocolate melted and handed out in little cups – what a divine experience that was.

  10. charleneflash says

    Hersheys white chocolate with nuts, I brought it whilst sitting on a bus in Rio. The chocolate was so creamy, so luscious and sweet. Yum x

  17. Tracey Berry says

    Well my answer is going to seem like either I haven’t tried chocolate or I’m not trying to answer the question but truly the ony chocolate I indulge in is Nestle Galaxy – I have tried, Belgian, Swiss and American but they’re either too sweet, too cocoa or just plain not nice – sorry but I’d rather be honest (just in case there is a court case and I have plausible deniability LOL Just kidding ………) xx

  24. sophie williams says

    I know I should say that it was in a chocolate museum I visited in Belgium, but really it’s those little mini Kinder schoko-bons that are my favourite ever 🙂

  27. Maya Russell says

    When I was a child I loved the purple Milka bars and I still think they’re delicious and the best chocolate!

  33. Hazel Wright says

    For bars of chocolate it has to be Green and Black’s Maya Gold. For an actual chocolate, it has to be the Irish Cream from the Hotel Chocolat dark chocolate selection I had. Oooh YUM!

  41. Jamie Glew says

    I had an absolutely GORGEOUS orange liqueur chocolate from The Tasting Club. I nearly cried after having the second one. I stayed with them for ages afterwards hoping it’d come round again, but it never did 🙁

  46. Sonia Mahon says

    I would have to say the very best chocolate I have tasted is the Hotel Chocolat – Triple Chocolate Wham Bam – Delicious!!!

  48. Nicola says

    I was at a chocolate festival and tried some of Thornton’s not yet released range. I don’t normally like Thornton’s, but these lemon chocolates were absolutely delicious and I can’t wait to buy a whole stash of them!

  57. Lilinha Angel says

    The best chocolate was one that my hubby bought for me on Valentine’s Day a couple of years ago. It was a Valentines Limited Edition!
    Absolutely Gorgeous! 🙂 x

  58. Emma says

    I really like Green and Black’s caramel crunch. Lindts Creme brulee is very decadent and Montezumas chocolate Lime and chilli is surprisingly zingy and warm. No it has to be booja-booja choclate truffles for sure! I just can’t make up my mind!

  59. linda curtis says

    i love milk tray think it has something to do with the advert years ago
    all becouse a lady love milk tray : )

  68. Joanna Coleshill says

    I had some amazing chocolate in Paris from a little chocolate shop, sadly the name eludes me as I’d had a couple of glasses of wine with lunch, but the memory makes my mouth water.

  69. Su-yin says

    It’s a toss up between Artisan du Chocolat and William Curley’s salted caramel truffles. They’re both so good that I couldn’t choose between them! 😉

  72. nikki hilton says

    the best ever chocolate was a coffee cream filled one from Boule in LA, sadly they are not longer in business- which is a huge pity!

  79. helen williams says

    Thorntons chocolate especially when it’s in a cute shape i.e. easter bunny etc. 35 but a big kid at heart x

  80. Lisa Wilkinson says

    I was in Belgium and went to a chocolate cafe and tried all different types plus a hot chocolate. It was just gorgeous.

  82. Laura Carroll says

    The Lindt chocolate reindeer my now-husband bought me on our first date 🙂 I may be a bit biased 😀

  90. Katy says

    Hotel Chocolate Smudge OMG its soooo smooth and goes with so many things, like hot milk, or toast or cake mmmmmmmmmmmmm

  94. Dnene says

    I think the best chocolate I ever had was a bar of Dove (Galaxy in the UK). I was in China, and hadn’t had any chocolate in 4 months – I may have tried to eat the whole bar at once 🙂

    That or proper Italian hot chocolate I had in a cafe once.

  95. Cheryll H says

    I was a vegan for years and I have to say, the first chocolate I tasted when I fell pregnant was AMAZING (I decided that I would no longer be vegan/veggie after becoming pregnant as I have really low iron). It was a Wispa bar. Yum!

  96. Dessiree Brown-Llaneza says

    Ferrero Rocher. Whatever new chocolate comes out they cannot beat this one, it is by far my favourite. Or maybe its because its so expensive and i hardly ever have it that it seems nicer!

  104. Linda says

    I like all chocolate! But the best tasting ever was when I was young Suchard used to make these lovely mini easter eggs in different coloured foil wrapping. They were often bought in a long tube or sometimes available loose. I haven’t seen them for years so I don’t think these are made anymore but they really were something special, and I can taste them right now!

  109. Robyn Clarke says

    My first taste of Hotel Chocolat was absolutely amazing! But budget wise, chocolate of choice is Galaxy, rich and creamy.

  115. Holly Green says

    Some chocolate I had from a little shop in Ypres, Belgium many years ago – it’s true what they say about Belgian chocolate, it really is amazing!

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