pastrygirl

Ha ha, no, just one nephew and one niece, 5 and 2. I do spoil them with ridiculous birthday cakes but I'm not at Grandma-level spoiling. How fun it would be to get a chocolate egg bigger than your head!

That's weird, maybe Tomric sells pairs of molds so you get 4 halves or two complete eggs? I have to admit, the pricing on these boggles my mind - as much as I love having all the toys, I can't yet rationalize a $300 chocolate mold!

If you’d like a bag of either Felchlin Sao Palme 60 or Arriba 72, I can send you one for cost plus shipping. A friend was extolling the virtues of Maracaibo 65 so I just ordered her a box, I’m hoping I’ll get to taste it, then maybe I can offer a more educated suggestion.

I could use a new espresso maker but I'm more of an after-holiday shopper.

Half the fun is guessing what you've appropriated ... sharps disposal box?

I make a caramel ganache with Valrhona Dulcey and caramel sauce and add it to my (usually swiss meringue) buttercream. The added chocolate keeps it firmer.

silkscreening is one way to do it, there may be others

Some of the books will list available water in the recipes - I believe Wybauw and Notter both do. Since you’ll have the retail shop you have the opportunity to tell each customer to eat the candy within a month (for example). You can promote that the truffles are fresh and perishable. It’s harder when you need to satisfy merchants who want a 6 month shelf life.

It's on the box, a lot of their couvertures come in 6 kg boxes with 3 of those bags. Here are the ingredients and nutrition info for the maracaibo creole 49%. I like that a serving size is 100 grams. The do say the Swiss eat a lot of chocolate!

I like a nice ripened goat cheese along the lines of bucheron or humboldt fog.

I think so. You might need to thin it down with milk or add a bit of sugar, but might as well experiment.

With the magnifying glass provided, which also happens to be made out of gelatin and wild herbs and is your amuse-bouche.

Washing, even with bleach, doesn’t kill E. coli, which may actually be within the cells of the plant, not just sitting on top. Cooking thoroughly is the only way to make it safe.

Inked custom stamps are inexpensive, I get mine through Impress, local to me but online everywhere. I get printable labels in all sizes from Online Labels. But check these out, they might even have an existing box die that would work for you: https://accucut.com/collections/bag-box-dies?page=1

Can the silhouette cut more than one at a time? I had borrowed my sil’s but finally gave it back after never trying it out. Another idea is I’d found a company that makes custom die cutters. This was last year and I don’t remember the name, but iirc there was a set of rollers and you fed your paper through and it cut. Not sure if it could mark the creases where you need to fold the box or not. I have the number $700 in my head for that. And re: Paper Source, even if they don’t have the pre-scored box, they do have a vast selection of colors in card stock and a wholesale division called Waste Not Paper. I’m using their luxe cream 4 bar envelopes to package my chocolate bars.