Introduction to chocolate -- Chocolate and other ingredients -- Essential equipment -- Composition and basic techniques -- Making chocolates and other confections -- Simple chocolate methods and recipes -- Gianduja, pralinierte gianduja, and marzipan -- Ganache -- Decorating techniques -- Chocolate praline recipes -- Sugar-crusted alcohol pralines -- Creating chocolate showpieces -- Chocolate bases and tubes -- Chocolate decor -- Modeling chocolate -- Chocolate flowers -- Painting, piping, and assembling three-dimensional figures -- Creating a competition piece -- Appendix: templates.