Patent ID: 8017163

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a heat-resistant chocolate product or a heat-resistant chocolate-like confectionery product, said process comprising: (1) mixing a chocolate or a chocolate-like confectionery with a water-in-oil emulsion to provide a chocolate mass or chocolate-like confectionery mass with water content of about 1.8 to about 7 weight percent; (2) moulding the chocolate mass or the chocolate-like confectionery mass from step (1) to form a moulded chocolate or chocolate-like confectionery mass; (3) cooling the moulded chocolate or chocolate-like confectionery mass; and (4) subjecting the moulded chocolate or chocolate-like confectionery mass, before, during, or after the cooling step (3), to a microwave treatment sufficient to provide essentially instantaneously the heat-resistant chocolate product or the heat-resistant chocolate like confectionery product.