With a chef’s knife, angle the blade so the tip is against the chopping board. Then press down evenly and firmly to start sculpting the bar into chunks the size you need. The point is that you’re in charge – and mastering simple techniques like chopping and grating chocolate will elevate your baking game with rich, complex and delicious results. Grating Chocolate: This process creates small, fine pieces of chocolate that resemble powder or coarse sand. Shaving chocolate is a technique that’s easier than you think. Try going as dark as you dare with our 90% Dark Chocolate Slab– the darker the chocolate, the more complex the flavour and the more successful the results.

The result is thin, delicate curls or shards of chocolate that add a sophisticated garnish to cakes, pastries, or other desserts.

How to Grate Chocolate

Take your chocolate skills to the next level by learning how to expertly create cacao shavings and curls If you want to create curls, make sure you have a sharp vegetable peeler in your chocolate toolkit. How to grate chocolate

A serrated bread knife requires less effort, giving you both power and accuracy. Press straight down to start chopping your chocolate, pushing the blade through the bar.

Best Chocolate For Grating

Break or chop your chocolate into small chunks that will fit through the feeding tube of your food processor. To do so, you’ll want to use the grating attachment (typically a disc-shaped piece with grating holes).