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.
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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.)
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Best ever chocolate for me is Green and Blacks Espresso. Lovely
i lovev green and blacks the butterscotch one
I love Hotel Chocolat 40% Milk Batons
A tobacco infused truffle by Artisan du Chocolat
Charbonel & Walker milk chocolate is my favourite.
Cote D’Or in general, and their Bouchee’s in particular. Can’t find them in the UK, which is such a pity!
My chocolate Easter egg from Godiva last year was amazing!
A salted caramalised almond chocolate
@caro_mad
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.
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
undoubtable roccos rose and violet chocolate
tough one but it would have to be wittamer creme fraiche chocolate in Brussels. Amazing!!
good old cadburys milk chocolate
Green and Blacks Dark chocolate.
Swiss chocolate truffles!
Harrods belgian truffles
@littleboo_21
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
I think Guylian seashells are divine.
Belgian chocolates my son brought me home from a school trip
I have tried all different types of chocolate but you can’t beat Cadbury’s
Hotel Chocolat is to die for
Galaxy is my favourite
begian chocolate
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 🙂
Hotel Chocolat
I quite liked those old white chocolate milky bars. 🙂
@00AnnabelLee00
When I was a child I loved the purple Milka bars and I still think they’re delicious and the best chocolate!
hotel chocolat’s chilli chocolate
cadbury’s milk chocolate
Dairy milk is by far the tastiest.
Galaxy is my one true love! The original is the best too!
Galaxy makes the best chocolate..so moreish
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!
Green and Blacks Dark chocolate
rum and raisin chocolate think its mde by cadburys or bournville
I love galaxy chocolate.
I Hotel Chocolat that my husband bought me at Christmas
Leonidas Milk Chocalate
bournville chocolate is the best i’ve tasted
I had a lovely strawberry and white chocolate easter egg once, it was amazing.
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 🙁
The creamier the better for me. I like Milka or Lindt.
Kinder bueno – because it comes with the wonderful memories of my childhood.
The best chocolate I have ever tasted is Green and Blacks.
Hotel Chocolat’s chocolate – yum yum!
I would have to say the very best chocolate I have tasted is the Hotel Chocolat – Triple Chocolate Wham Bam – Delicious!!!
Freshly made chocolate on a factory tour in Switzerland
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!
Lindt
Booja Booja truffles!
Green and Blacks dark and Mint
I love a good chocolate truffle, have even attempted to make them myself.
A book that details and gives an insight into the world of chocolate patisserie. I love it! A good old chocolate cake is still my favourite way of eating it!
The best is still Royce Chocolates from Japan.
cadbury’s dairy milk
Lindt Lindor
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
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!
i love milk tray think it has something to do with the advert years ago
all becouse a lady love milk tray : )
got to be lindt
I love Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A sample from a Hotal Chocolat shop- yum!
It’s got to be Cadbury’s
Hotel Chocolat caramel buttons – it’s the texture as much as the flavour.
Hotel Chocolat Box of marzipan chocolates
The best chocolate ever is Milk chocolate Lindor!
honey white chocolate! YUM
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.
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! 😉
ANYTHING from Hotel Chocolat!
Guido Gobino from Turin makes the best praline in the world.
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!
Great competition!
Ooh, tough one between Lindt Lindor and Hotel Chocolat’s milk and white choholate!!
Has to be Green and Blacks, but I dont mind Bournville if I cant find G&B
I adore the white chocolate Lindt balls!
I love Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.
Although Lindt is my stand-by, I also love Bonnat!
Thorntons chocolate especially when it’s in a cute shape i.e. easter bunny etc. 35 but a big kid at heart x
I was in Belgium and went to a chocolate cafe and tried all different types plus a hot chocolate. It was just gorgeous.
Loved the hot chocolate served in Barcelona. Can’t find it anywhere else.
The Lindt chocolate reindeer my now-husband bought me on our first date 🙂 I may be a bit biased 😀
dairy milk fruit n nut
Hotel Chocolat Chocolate Santa 🙂
I love green and blacks dark chocolate bars
ferrero rocher
Ferrero Rocher are the best!
I love thorntons continental chocolates .
easter egg chocolate i dont know why but it always taste that bit better?
Hotel Chocolate Smudge OMG its soooo smooth and goes with so many things, like hot milk, or toast or cake mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Thorntons extra thick easter egg milk chocolate
CADBURYS FOR ME ALLWAYS LOL
It’s got to be Cadbury’s Dairy Milk!
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.
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!
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!
ferrero rocher
Chocolate mousse made by my mum!
@Dorothee77
ferrero rocher
For me it’s Green and Blacks dark chocolate
The best chocolate I have ever tasted is Lindor milk chocolate balls!!
Lindt chocolate balls are fantastic
hotel chocolat
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!
Lindt chocolate balls
cadburys white chocolate i LOVE it
lindt coconut
thorntons 🙂
My first taste of Hotel Chocolat was absolutely amazing! But budget wise, chocolate of choice is Galaxy, rich and creamy.
Lindt chocolates are amazing
Green & Blacks Butterscotch. Yum!
Lindt milk chocolate has to be my favourite
my mum’s white chocolate mouse, usually made from milky bars
milky bar chocolate is my number one anytime
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!
Galaxy