SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Chocolate 1, Chapter 1 (How Chocolate Works)

Milk, plain and dark chocolate bars (about 70%), cocoa powder, caster sugar, whole milk, ripe bananas, golden syrup, butter, puffed rice cereal, flavourless oil, salt, paper cake cases, baking parchment, kitchen paper, a heatproof bowl and a pan.

Chocolate tasting (4 tasters)
[ ] 1 bar bar of milk chocolate
[ ] 1 bar bar of plain chocolate (about 50 to 60%)
[ ] 1 bar bar of dark chocolate (about 70%)
[ ] 1 glass of water, to cleanse your palate

Chocolate-dipped frozen banana (4 portions)
[ ] 2 ripe bananas, firm rather than very soft
[ ] 100 g dark chocolate (about 70%), chopped
[ ] 1 tsp flavourless oil
[ ] 1 tray lined with baking parchment

Chocolate crackles (12 crackles)
[ ] 100 g milk or plain chocolate, chopped
[ ] 2 tbsp golden syrup
[ ] 30 g butter
[ ] 60 g puffed rice cereal
[ ] 12 paper cake cases

Cocoa-powder hot chocolate (1 mug)
[ ] 2 tsp cocoa powder
[ ] 2 tsp caster sugar, or to taste
[ ] 250 ml whole milk
[ ] 1 pinch salt
[ ] 1 mug

For the experiments
[ ] Extra chocolate of each type
[ ] A kitchen timer