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CHOCOLATE STUDIO | RESOURCES & TECHNIQUES

Resources & Techniques

The Fundamentals

Basics and Beyond for Creating With Guittard Couverture — Whether it's your first time using Guittard Couverture or you're revisiting an old recipe, our fundamentals are quick formulation reference guides unique to each Couverture chocolate.

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Cremeux

A crème anglaise emulsified with a chocolate to create a smoothand creamy texture that most resembles the texture of a baked custard.

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Whipped Ganache

Whipped ganache is essentially a whipped cream that is stabilized by the chocolate with which it is whipped. Emulsification of chocolate and cream, chilled overnight, then whipped just as whipped cream is whipped.

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Mousse

A light airy dessert that is made from combining whipped cream with an egg mixture that is often whipped to a foam but can also be cooked as a crème anglaise, and then folding these two elements together with melted chocolate to create the mousse.

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Techniques

Explore a series of skills that are essential to working with chocolate—master tempering, molding, and creative techniques that elevate your craft and transform simple ingredients into extraordinary experiences.

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Shell Moulding

Shell moulding is a chocolate-making technique where a thin shell of tempered chocolate is formed in a mould, then filled and sealed to create hollow or filled confections.

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Chocolate Melting

In liquifying chocolate, it is the cocoa butter, the fat, that is actually getting melted – changing from solid to liquid state. Because of the triglyceride composition of cocoa butter, it melts over a temperature range (~90-120°F), not just one single point. This is what makes chocolate so palatable, and for this reason melting is in important part of handling and tempering chocolate.

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Chocolate Glaze

A shiny pourable mixture usually consisting of water, sugar, glucose,cocoa powder, gelatin, and couverture. used to create a visually pleasing appearance as well as helping extend the shelf life of the dessert.

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Tempering - Tabling Method

The process of turning melted chocolate into a solid mass of stable cocoa butter crystals with a fine, even grained texture, accomplished with controlled cooling of the chocolate with agitation, to form many fine-grained beta crystals, as opposed to other crystal forms which are unstable and of random formation.

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Tempering - Seeding Method

A process to pre-crystallize chocolate by inoculating melted chocolate with beta form-V crystals from previously tempered, pre-crystallized chocolate.

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