A Masterchef Moment - A Tip From A Professional Chocolatier

April 14, 2011 - PRLog -- An award-winning Cumbrian chocolatier and avid ‘Masterchef’ fan sat down to watch the culinary hopefuls recently and found herself wondering, “Why are these maniacs wasting so much time chopping and grating bars of chocolate?” Jane Cullen is an ex-RAF Flying Officer who served as a Fighter Controller in Belize, Cyprus and the Falklands.  After military life she became mum to a couple of nippers, before entrepreneurship took hold.  Business number one was a busy French baguetterie in Carlisle city centre.  Moving on a few years, chocolate beckoned and a steep learning curve later, her company ‘Saunders Chocolates’ was born.

Now an established and respected chocolatier, one of her Belgian suppliers recently gave Jane a sample of their new, 80% cocoa, darkest-dark chocolate.  As usual, this sample came in the tiny chocolate drops, known as ‘callets’, which are used by chocolate professionals.  It was this smooth, powerful chocolate that sprang to mind as Jane watched the Masterchef hopefuls. Samples have now gone to Masterchef judges Wallace and Torrode with a suggestion that callets should be on the ingredients table in future.  

Meanwhile, Jane has made Saunders Chocolate Callets available to all.  You can now buy them ‘loose’ in white, milk, dark and the new 80% chocolate.  No need to buy fancily- wrapped bars in the supermarket   -   now you can get just the right amount for your recipes (with no added packaging).  Working with the callets which professional chocolatiers use every day is easy.  They allow you to measure ‘to the gramme’ and you can quickly & safely melt them in a microwave.  Saunders Chocolates local stockists are listed at http://www.saunderschocolates.co.uk where you’ll also find a few of Jane’s favourite chocolate recipes.

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