You can make chocolates without without any kind of mold. Traditional truffles are simply chocolate ganache that has been chilled, shaped into a ball, and rolled in cocoa powder or some other coating. This blog is the best/funniest explanation of that process I could find. However, when I talk about chocolates, I mean filling contained in a thin shell of chocolate that has a shape. For Valentines day, I would choose a heart shaped mold.
There are a lot of places online to find good candy molds. The best one I was able
to find is called Chocoley . This company sells all kinds of chocolate molds, from inexpensive plastic sheets to professional quality polycarbonate molds like to ones pictured. Most of the candy molds I came across on my search were really not appropriate for making filled chocolates. The molds on Chocoley, however, were all really nice. Not only that, but the plastic molds are inexpensive while appearing to be just what I'd want to use.Wherever you get your mold, you need to look for a few things. The material shouldn't be too flimsy. If this is just a once in a while endeavor, by all means go with a less expensive option, but still look for quality. Look for corners that are nice and square. What I mean by corner is where the impression of the shape meets the top of the mold. You need for this to be nice and straight, not curved to any degree. Also, it will make things much easier if the mold doesn't have any fancy edges to it. Just a straight, square side is all you want.
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