I want to make Truffles, Chocolate dipped Preztels, Chocolate covered Marshallows, Chocolate cover graham crackers, Bark, Chocolate dipped spoons

What is the best chocolate to use?
Any suggestions or tips will be a great help?

I got some candy melts, but I don't think they taste too good. I can just use them for decoarations on the them.

For truffles and bark, I would recommend using good chocolate. For my chocolate-dipped pretzels I use white and chocolate almond bark. It's cheaper and, I think, really good.

I agree ... a good eating chocolate is the way to go on this type of goodies (candy melts and baking chocolate won't cut it!)

My favourite bar to use is Lindt 70%, but it is rather expensive. In Canada you can get President's Choice large choclate bars (from the Fortinos, Zehr's, etc chain of grocery stores) which are much cheaper, but pretty decent quality.

You want a choclate that is yummy enough to eat by itself, then it should be good enough for your goodies!

I've made chocolate dipped "things" with chocolate chips and you just add 1T. of shortening while your melting it. I think there's something about it on the bag.

I use almond bark for my choc. covered prezels. Do you think you can use that for the choc. covered marshmallows and graham crackers?

I use almond bark for covering everything with chocolate. It works on everything. Something I make every year is chocolate covered peanut butter filled ritz crackers. They taste just like Reeses Peanut Butter Cups or the Chocolate Peanut Butter patties by Little Debbie.

gilson6 - Do you just use the mini Ritz Bits and dip those in chocolate? Or do you make regular sized peanut butter Ritz crackers and dip? Please share your instructions if you don't mind! These sound yummy!

I take the regular size ritz crackers, put peanut butter on them and make a sandwich -- then you dip them in the melted chocolate and let them sit until dry. My family loves when I make these. I hardly ever have any to give away.

gilson6,
Your recipe sounds good! I'll have to remember to try it this year!

I don't see why not. I'm not sure if the chocolate would melt the marshmallow if it's too hot, thought.

I froze the marshmallows before I dipped them into the caramel. I didn't want to risk melting them.

I've seen almond bark at the grocery store and had no idea what purpose it served. Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try.

Question: do you need to add anything to the almond bark? Flavoring, butter, corn syrup ?

The choc covered pb crackers are one of my favorites. The tiny bit of salt from the ritz crackers just makes them wonderful.

I tried the almond bark. It was okay. It does not set up as well as coating candy. Merckens is the best. But I have found that the Make N Mold candy melts that AC Moore sells is very good as well.

You don't need to add anything to the bark. It comes in milk chocolate and white chocolate.

I use the bark for peppermint bark and dipping my cake balls. When I make fudge or peanut butter cups or any other candy, I use Ghiradelli chocolate chips or Nestle Milk Chocolate chips because they have a better flavor in candy.