I know many years ago, when I was first working chocolate, some recipes did
put a small percentage of paraffin wax into the melting chocolate, it's
suppose to firm up the chocolate I believe, I didn't like the idea so never
used it.
Chocolate is tricky stuff to work with I find....... qahtan

"Leph28" > wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> A friend recently gave me a recipe for cookies with peanut butter, corn
> flakes & chocolate, and one of the ingredients in the recipe was WAX.
> Now it surprised me at first, having never used that in cooking and having
> never eaten wax, but i was wondering if it's something any of you
> had encountered and if so, what kind of wax should is recommended and
> where
> to buy it? I know there's paraffin on sale at the grocery store, but
> is that ok to be used for cooking??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> btw, this is a serious post... for any who would think i'm kidding (like
> some friends who i asked the same questions)
>
>