The Chocolate Casket

Cooking with Chocolate needs to be done carefully if you don’t want to spoil the textures of what you are making. having to grease a baking sheet can often give your cookies an odd texture. I get round this by using the Silpat 11-5/8-by-16-1/2-Inch Nonstick Silicone Baking Mat

I particularly like this one because it is made of silicone and fibreglass so is durable and easy to care for. I have been using mine for ages – the manufacturers say it can be used up to 3,000 times! Whilst I haven’t used mine that much – it has certainly been in and out of the oven, freezer and microwave with no problems.

It can be used at temperatures up to 480º F. It can be used for things other than chocolate – pastries, caramels – anything that might stick to a pan. It just needs to be washed in warm water and only takes a few seconds as absolutely nothing sticks to it.

Classic Discovery Box

The perfect starter kit for any chocolate lover……. Hotel Chocolat have put together a splendid ‘Discovery’ Box

- 62% Rabot Estate milk chocolate bar
- 72% Rabot Estate dark chocolate bar
- Liquid Chocolat – authentic dark chocolate drink with chilli
- A bag of mousse au chocolat truffles
- Dark chocolate dipper to swirl in hot drinks and nibble

450g

Recipe contains milk and nuts

Hi, I’m Cherrie Carew and my passion is Chocolate, in all its most glorious forms.    It is the most luscious and delectable food on the planet, probably the Solar System if not the entire Universe! This website is an ongoing blog in homage to Chocolate.  I will be putting all my favourite recipes, chocolate stories, reviews, news, sources – in fact anything at all I can lay my hands on about chocolate.  Do keep visiting and feel free to share your chocolate stories with the rest of the chocoholics around here….