1.   Chop chocolate in a food processor.

2.   Chop chocolate into pieces.

3.   Chop chocolate and melt in a dry bowl set over simmering water.

4.   Cut butter into small pieces and chop chocolate into small pieces.

5.   Finely chop remaining chocolate.

6.   Make sure you have chopped the chocolate as finely as possible so it will melt quickly and easily.

7.   William Garner, a first vice president of FCC National Bank, was in a TriBeCa kitchen chopping chocolate into fine, feathery pieces for tiramisu.