Couverture is a fine quality, richly flavoured chocolate that is high in cocoa butter and cocoa mass. If used for coating, dipping or making chocolates, it needs to be tempered. If only being used for fillings or baking, then it does not need tempering.
Compound chocolate is a lesser quality chocolate which has cocoa butter substituted by vegetable fats (sometimes palm oil) and often is made using cocoa powder instead of cocoa mass. Poppy’s Chocolate do not use Compound chocolate in any of their own products. We do some contract work for other companies using compound chocolate.