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

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

January 27, 2012 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake

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.)

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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

  1. phyllis ellett says

    January 27, 2012 at 5:35 am

    Best ever chocolate for me is Green and Blacks Espresso. Lovely

  2. Ashleigh Allan says

    January 27, 2012 at 6:16 am

    i lovev green and blacks the butterscotch one

  3. Lorraine Bishop says

    January 27, 2012 at 8:46 am

    I love Hotel Chocolat 40% Milk Batons

  4. Jules says

    January 27, 2012 at 9:54 am

    A tobacco infused truffle by Artisan du Chocolat

  5. Claire says

    January 27, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Charbonel & Walker milk chocolate is my favourite.

  6. Catherine says

    January 27, 2012 at 1:25 pm

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

  7. Caroline says

    January 27, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    My chocolate Easter egg from Godiva last year was amazing!

  8. Carolin says

    January 27, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    A salted caramalised almond chocolate

    @caro_mad

  9. Choclette says

    January 27, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    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

    January 27, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    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

  11. Aga Girls says

    January 27, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    undoubtable roccos rose and violet chocolate

  12. bakingaddict says

    January 28, 2012 at 1:09 am

    tough one but it would have to be wittamer creme fraiche chocolate in Brussels. Amazing!!

  13. helen rhoads says

    January 28, 2012 at 7:43 am

    good old cadburys milk chocolate

  14. Dawn Wild says

    January 28, 2012 at 9:25 am

    Green and Blacks Dark chocolate.

  15. Carolina J. says

    January 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    Swiss chocolate truffles!

  16. Boo Roo and Tigger Too says

    January 28, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Harrods belgian truffles

    @littleboo_21

  17. Tracey Berry says

    January 28, 2012 at 8:44 pm

    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

  18. Fiona Martin says

    January 29, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    I think Guylian seashells are divine.

  19. Claire Smith says

    January 30, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    Belgian chocolates my son brought me home from a school trip

  20. Kirsty Jane Fox says

    January 30, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    I have tried all different types of chocolate but you can’t beat Cadbury’s

  21. pippa saunders says

    January 30, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Hotel Chocolat is to die for

  22. Sarah Cooper says

    January 30, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    Galaxy is my favourite

  23. iain maciver says

    January 30, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    begian chocolate

  24. sophie williams says

    January 30, 2012 at 5:51 pm

    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 🙂

  25. claire woods says

    January 30, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    Hotel Chocolat

  26. Gillian Holmes says

    January 30, 2012 at 11:15 pm

    I quite liked those old white chocolate milky bars. 🙂

    @00AnnabelLee00

  27. Maya Russell says

    January 31, 2012 at 9:43 am

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

  28. liz denial says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:12 am

    hotel chocolat’s chilli chocolate

  29. Helen T says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:18 am

    cadbury’s milk chocolate

  30. Gemma Harrison says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:47 am

    Dairy milk is by far the tastiest.

  31. Tracy Nixon says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:53 am

    Galaxy is my one true love! The original is the best too!

  32. Melanie McNair says

    January 31, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Galaxy makes the best chocolate..so moreish

  33. Hazel Wright says

    January 31, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    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!

  34. ADELE HILL says

    January 31, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Green and Blacks Dark chocolate

  35. laura stewart says

    January 31, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    rum and raisin chocolate think its mde by cadburys or bournville

  36. NATALIE GOATLEY says

    January 31, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    I love galaxy chocolate.

  37. Ruth Tesdale says

    January 31, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    I Hotel Chocolat that my husband bought me at Christmas

  38. Sarah Spencer says

    January 31, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    Leonidas Milk Chocalate

  39. laura banks says

    January 31, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    bournville chocolate is the best i’ve tasted

  40. Georgina Ball says

    January 31, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    I had a lovely strawberry and white chocolate easter egg once, it was amazing.

  41. Jamie Glew says

    January 31, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    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 🙁

  42. Victoria Boland says

    January 31, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    The creamier the better for me. I like Milka or Lindt.

  43. Martina Pichova says

    January 31, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Kinder bueno – because it comes with the wonderful memories of my childhood.

  44. stephanie tsang says

    January 31, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    The best chocolate I have ever tasted is Green and Blacks.

  45. KIRSTY says

    February 1, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    Hotel Chocolat’s chocolate – yum yum!

  46. Sonia Mahon says

    February 1, 2012 at 8:15 pm

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

  47. Alice Hindley says

    February 1, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Freshly made chocolate on a factory tour in Switzerland

  48. Nicola says

    February 1, 2012 at 9:37 pm

    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!

  49. Solange says

    February 1, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    Lindt

  50. Emma Howard says

    February 2, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Booja Booja truffles!

  51. Victoria Langley says

    February 3, 2012 at 12:33 am

    Green and Blacks dark and Mint

  52. Anschel G says

    February 3, 2012 at 9:11 am

    I love a good chocolate truffle, have even attempted to make them myself.

  53. Kay@Chopstix2steaknives says

    February 3, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    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!

  54. Kay@Chopstix2steaknives says

    February 3, 2012 at 1:17 pm

    The best is still Royce Chocolates from Japan.

  55. jonathan Collins says

    February 3, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    cadbury’s dairy milk

  56. Nasira Yusuf says

    February 3, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    Lindt Lindor

  57. Lilinha Angel says

    February 3, 2012 at 10:26 pm

    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

    February 4, 2012 at 7:46 am

    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

    February 4, 2012 at 2:59 pm

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

  60. Emma J Lowe says

    February 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    got to be lindt

  61. Tracey McPartland says

    February 5, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I love Chocolate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  62. Jennifer Schofield says

    February 5, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    A sample from a Hotal Chocolat shop- yum!

  63. Ness Gorton says

    February 5, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    It’s got to be Cadbury’s

  64. Kate B says

    February 6, 2012 at 12:54 am

    Hotel Chocolat caramel buttons – it’s the texture as much as the flavour.

  65. Carolyn Philip says

    February 6, 2012 at 11:17 am

    Hotel Chocolat Box of marzipan chocolates

  66. El Pasticcio says

    February 6, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    The best chocolate ever is Milk chocolate Lindor!

  67. Heather Shaw says

    February 7, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    honey white chocolate! YUM

  68. Joanna Coleshill says

    February 7, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    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

    February 7, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    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! 😉

  70. Colette Hallinan says

    February 7, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    ANYTHING from Hotel Chocolat!

  71. Galina V says

    February 10, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Guido Gobino from Turin makes the best praline in the world.

  72. nikki hilton says

    February 10, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    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!

  73. richard worth says

    February 10, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    Great competition!

  74. Sarah says

    February 10, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Ooh, tough one between Lindt Lindor and Hotel Chocolat’s milk and white choholate!!

  75. anigel says

    February 11, 2012 at 6:08 pm

    Has to be Green and Blacks, but I dont mind Bournville if I cant find G&B

  76. Jo Young says

    February 11, 2012 at 9:25 pm

    I adore the white chocolate Lindt balls!

  77. Hannah Bartram says

    February 13, 2012 at 12:06 am

    I love Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.

  78. Melissa says

    February 14, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Although Lindt is my stand-by, I also love Bonnat!

  79. helen williams says

    February 15, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    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

    February 16, 2012 at 8:04 pm

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

  81. Steph B says

    February 17, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    Loved the hot chocolate served in Barcelona. Can’t find it anywhere else.

  82. Laura Carroll says

    February 18, 2012 at 4:02 am

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

  83. Kathy Cakebread says

    February 18, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    dairy milk fruit n nut

  84. kate lancaster says

    February 19, 2012 at 3:31 am

    Hotel Chocolat Chocolate Santa 🙂

  85. carole carr says

    February 20, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    I love green and blacks dark chocolate bars

  86. clare lapsley says

    February 20, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    ferrero rocher

  87. Angela Sandhu says

    February 22, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Ferrero Rocher are the best!

  88. jackie curran says

    February 22, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    I love thorntons continental chocolates .

  89. jo WElsh says

    February 22, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    easter egg chocolate i dont know why but it always taste that bit better?

  90. Katy says

    February 24, 2012 at 6:03 am

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

  91. Robin Brooksbank says

    February 24, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Thorntons extra thick easter egg milk chocolate

  92. Greig spencer says

    February 24, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    CADBURYS FOR ME ALLWAYS LOL

  93. Samantha Wesley says

    February 24, 2012 at 11:04 pm

    It’s got to be Cadbury’s Dairy Milk!

  94. Dnene says

    February 25, 2012 at 1:47 am

    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

    February 25, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    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

    February 25, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    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!

  97. emma kinsey says

    February 26, 2012 at 6:21 am

    ferrero rocher

  98. Dorothee Archambault says

    February 26, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Chocolate mousse made by my mum!
    @Dorothee77

  99. Lyn Bosomworth says

    February 26, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    ferrero rocher

  100. Nina Crozier says

    February 26, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    For me it’s Green and Blacks dark chocolate

  101. Hazel Rush says

    February 26, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    The best chocolate I have ever tasted is Lindor milk chocolate balls!!

  102. Andrew Cakebread says

    February 26, 2012 at 9:13 pm

    Lindt chocolate balls are fantastic

  103. Angie Hoggett says

    February 27, 2012 at 1:09 am

    hotel chocolat

  104. Linda says

    February 27, 2012 at 10:03 am

    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!

  105. Lewis Pearce says

    February 27, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    Lindt chocolate balls

  106. Charlotte Cottam says

    February 27, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    cadburys white chocolate i LOVE it

  107. olivia kirby says

    February 27, 2012 at 5:04 pm

    lindt coconut

  108. steph meakin says

    February 27, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    thorntons 🙂

  109. Robyn Clarke says

    February 27, 2012 at 7:27 pm

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

  110. Sheri Darby says

    February 27, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    Lindt chocolates are amazing

  111. Heather Burnish says

    February 27, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    Green & Blacks Butterscotch. Yum!

  112. Sarah Davies says

    February 27, 2012 at 8:18 pm

    Lindt milk chocolate has to be my favourite

  113. Scott Caldon says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    my mum’s white chocolate mouse, usually made from milky bars

  114. Janine Atkin says

    February 27, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    milky bar chocolate is my number one anytime

  115. Holly Green says

    February 28, 2012 at 1:27 am

    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!

  116. Angela Todd says

    February 28, 2012 at 2:49 am

    Galaxy

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