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(USchocolate candy coating)
a type of sweet chocolate that melts easily, for use in cooking:
Too many children's recipes involve melting cheap cooking chocolate and topping it with sweeties.
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I used chopped up cooking chocolate as I didn't have dark chocolate chips.
Use at least 70% cooking chocolate if you can get it, but dark eating chocolate will do.
Melt the cooking chocolate, spread over a tray and leave to set.
Our daughter tried to give the dog special treats made from puffed rice and cooking chocolate.
These are bland biscuits with a few chips that taste of low-grade cooking chocolate.
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