What Is Coating Chocolate?

What is coating? In pastry- and chocolate-making, coating means covering a candy or other creation with chocolate. Pastry chefs and chocolatiers are very familiar with the technique, as chocolate bonbons are coated. It is therefore vital you master it.

What is coating chocolate used for?

It is used as a lower-cost alternative to true chocolate, as it uses less-expensive hard vegetable fats such as coconut oil or palm kernel oil in place of the more expensive cocoa butter. It may also be known as "compound coating" or "chocolatey coating" when used as a coating for candy.

What is coating chocolate made of?

White chocolate is made from cocoa butter (usually up to 50% of the cocoa bean), milk powder and sugar. In 'coating' chocolate, the cocoa butter is replaced by vegetable oils and cocoa powder is used instead of cocoa mass.