Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua Cain, a pastry chef and chocolate expert, molds elaborate displays from chocolate. (Photos: Caribe Royale) I've been ...

Making molded chocolates looks like it would be easy: Just melt, fill, cool, and release! But like many aspects of chocolate-making, it can be finicky. Miss the mark on any of several key steps by ...

If you're making molded chocolates or any type of holiday candies, you need to know how to properly prepare the chocolate. Of course, you can use the melting wafers. But for the best candy such as ...

I've been cooking off and on both professionally and at home for the last 15 years, but chocolate has never interested me. It always seemed too finicky, too exacting, too fickle a food to fuss with.